Is your institution interested in becoming a partner in the Digital Archives site? This all-day workshop will include overviews of: the Alaska Digital Archives project, partnership options, selection of materials for inclusion, digitization standards, and metadata standards for the cataloging of materials placed on the site. The majority of the workshop time will be dedicated to hands-on cataloging of materials using the project software. Participants are welcome to bring one or two digital images of their own to use for metadata practice. Taught by: Arlene Schmuland, Mary Spengler, Gina Stevens, and other Digital Archives personnel.
Maximum number of attendees: 16. Session cost: $14.00 including lunch (Taco bar with vegetarian options).
This workshop, held in a computer lab near the conference hotel, will provide hands-on practice in all phases of Web tutorial development. Participants will practice using a Learning Management System, learn to outline and flowchart a tutorial, retrieve, edit, and insert images, design Web tutorial pages, and create interactive exercises. Novices to Web development will be presented with strategies that can be applied in a variety of settings, from transforming PowerPoint modules for online delivery to developing Web-based tutorials from scratch. Teaching effectiveness and productivity will be emphasized, and good instructional design will be discussed.
Audience: Good file management skills in the Windows environment required (finding files, navigating folders and directories; opening, copying, re-naming files). Basic skills in Microsoft Office applications. Web page creation experience is advantageous, but not required. Aptitude to learn new software programs on a basic level.
Maximum number of attendees: 30. Session cost: $44.00 including lunch (Taco bar w/vegetarian options).
Library automation will be the theme of this pre-conference geared toward school librarians. Learn to understand some of the lingo of your school’s technology expert or tech support staff, see the guts of a computer, and participate in user group sessions with representatives from Alexandria, Follett, SIRSI, or Sagebrush automation systems. Or, learn the steps required for automation if your school is not yet automated. Learn how to use your automation system and a website to analyze your school library collection. The day will end with a tour of three new or recently remodeled school libraries in the Anchorage School District.
This workshop will bring rural public librarians from around the state together to develop and implement actions plans to sustain and expand technology programs and services in their libraries. Participants will learn about and share best practices and lessons in the areas of advocacy, patron training, funding and outreach strategies, technical support, and maintaining and upgrading computer hardware and software. The Rural Library Sustainability workshop is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and open to public libraries serving communities under 25,000. The State Library will contact eligible participants directly regarding application procedures, participant stipends, and meeting logistics.
Visit three new or newly remodeled Anchorage School District libraries on this bus tour. The tour will visit one high school and two elementary schools. Learn a little about how these sparkling new libraries have been designed and what sort of programs are offered. Sign up in advance as bus space is limited. Fee: $10 (Paid at time of boarding)
Join a walking tour of nearby museums. The new Russian Orthodox Museum will be the first stop with an introduction to the collection and a few minutes to visit the gift shop or have a cup of coffee or tea in the café. The second stop will be at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art right across the street where you'll have a guided view of the Alaska section and another change to find interesting and authentic gifts at the Museum shop. If you need transportation to cover the 5 block route, please contact Sue Sherif at sue_sherif@eed.state.ak.us. Admission fees to the museums will be waived for the tour.
Orientation for new AkLA Executive Council Officers, Chapter and Committee Chairpersons.
Visit the National Archives, Pacific Alaska Region, Anchorage, and learn about the many and varied federal government resources available to textual researchers, including especially historians, educators, genealogists, students, and all those with an interest in the activities of the federal government in Alaska. The reception will include a tour and talk by staff, plus a table of assorted refreshments.
This is a mandatory meeting for the participants who plan to earn UAA continuing education credits for conference participation.
For all current and incoming AkLA executive council members.
Join ALA President Michael Gorman, AKLA President Ann Myren, and conference organizers in opening the conference. Entertainment, food, and cash bar.
Continental Breakfast
AkLA Continuing Education Committee Meeting
Executive board members of Alaska Association of School Librarians will meet, swear in new officers and prepare for the subsequent general membership meeting.
Annual meeting for Academic Libraries Roundtables
Business and information sharing for members of the Government Documents Roundtable
Special Libraries Roundtable Meeting
Annual meeting for Public Libraries Roundtables
When we claim libraries contribute to lifelong learning, what exactly do we mean? Libraries play different roles in society: they are repositories of cultural expression, places where children and adults nurture their imaginations, laboratories for learning and the creation of new knowledge, and testbeds for new information formats. How do all of these roles intersect and contribute to lifelong learning? How are libraries redefining themselves as physical places, social institutions, and as virtual entities? Borrowing concepts from cultural geography, we'll explore the future of libraries and their role in mapping knowledge.
Marshall Breeding will provide an overview of the threats and concerns for public library computers and for staff computing.
This is an opportunity for all members of AkASL to meet, be introduced to their newly elected board, and discuss issues of concern as well as offer input on future actions by AkASL. All public school librarians are encouraged to attend and meet with their colleagues from across the state.
Dr. Loriene Roy of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin will talk about the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant they received for a scholarship program for indigenous graduate students called "Honoring Generations." Learn more about Honoring Generations and the experiences of the first four students in the program.
Reports on the outcome of a day-long meeting in Girdwood held October 29, 2005, where strategies for further development of an Alaska Library Network (ALN) were explored. Discussions subsequent to the October meeting will also be summarized.
Demonstration Bureau of Land Management. Federal Land Information
What’s all the fuss about RDA? What! You don’t know what RDA is? Well, this session is for you! Summary of ideas behind RDA.
State Librarian Kay Shelton presents an overview of the state of Alaska’s libraries, followed by Clark Gruening’s analysis of events and trends in the capital city.
Overview of eBooks and Project Gutenberg, the origin of both, and the project’s current and future activities.
Group Discussion on Issues for Small Libraries
Looking for new ways to run your battle program? Want to get more kids involved? Hear some successful stories from around the state, plus bring some of your ideas too!
Dr. Loriene Roy of the School of Information at the University of Texas will discuss the background of the International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum. Panelists will discuss their participation in this meeting and the importance of it to Alaska Native librarianship.
Barber will introduce the basics of marketing and communication and their importance to libraries, help participants to begin drafting a marketing communication plan for their library and identify skills and tools to help all staff be part of the marketing team.
This session is supported in part by a grant from the Neal-Schuman Foundation.
This workshop will describe in some detail, using Alaskan examples, the worldview of Traditional tribal peoples and offer ways to bridge the gap between "rural" and "urban" worlds.
An overview of the wild and wacky world of cataloging videorecordings, with an emphasis on the descriptive cataloging of VHS videorecordings. Hold onto your seats as the mysteries of the 007 tag are revealed and explained! Exceptional videos are welcomed!
Teach basic maintenance routines and troubleshooting strategies for libraries’ public access PCs to non-techies. (Encore performance Saturday, 3:30 - 5:30 pm)
Learn how to build slides, web sites and web courses that are easy to understand AND look cool. This workshop will introduce librarians to principles of visual design using graphics such as illustrations, images, cartoons, and charts. We will discuss page layouts and templates, manipulate images using graphic software, and determine fonts for headers, text and captions. Audience: Good file management skills in the Windows environment required (finding files, navigating folders and directories; opening, copying, re-naming files). Basic skills in MS PowerPoint. Web page creation experience is advantageous, but not required. Aptitude to learn new software programs on a basic level.
This workshop will focus on the ways oral language and written English differ in structure and style, how these impact the way one "sees" and deals with the world, and provide suggestions for assisting students who are making the transition from an essentially oral to a fundamentally literate environment.
Marshall Breeding will review the state of the automation industry, some of the strengths and weaknesses in the current state of products, and talk about some trends that libraries might expect in the near future.
Library instruction, like writing instruction, invites students to construct their own meaning as they find, read and compose texts. This workshop will explore how the processes by which messages are created, transmitted, and received, whether in the form of scholarly communication or through popular media, deserve a more prominent place in our information literacy efforts.
Michael Sullivan, Director of the Weeks Public Library in Greenland, NH, storyteller, and author will share practical, proven, and sometimes off-beat suggestions on how to turn boys into life-long readers.
This workshop will focus on issues involved with both preserving and digitizing newspaper collections, particularly the back-end processing steps necessary to create searchable indexes. The workshop provides the opportunity to review and discuss appropriate methodology and software applications for digitizing newspaper collections. Useful background: Basic knowledge of preservation and digitization terminology and techniques.
Too many great ideas that could help your library patrons or enhance library services fizzle out when costs are calculated. Join Patience as she describes grant programs that can help you add fuel to the fire and heat generated by your great idea. Learn from your peers who have written successful grant applications and have reaped the benefits of seeing their great ideas come to life in their libraries.
This session will highlight new resources on SLED, Alaska’s Virtual Library and Digital Archives. After a quick overview of the services and resources currently available through SLED, the rest of the session will be devoted to examining recent changes, with an emphasis on databases and collections that have been added.
Teach basic maintenance routines and troubleshooting strategies for libraries public access PC’s to Non-techies
Ira Perman, Director of the Alaska Humanities Forum, will describe the development of a statewide task force focused on early literacy and learning. Librarians who participated in summits leading to the formation of the task force will join Ira to talk about how school and public libraries can promote the goal of making young Alaskans effective readers.
Opportunity for OCLC GSA (Group Services Agreement) members to get together and share information, discuss topical issues, and compare notes on OCLC policies, services and products.
AKLA’s annual reception for the vendors who assist in making Alaska’s libraries the best. Entertainment, food, and cash bar.
The Authors Dessert Reception is a delightful opportunity to meet outstanding local and national/international authors; take a tour of the new UAA/APU Consortium library; enjoy "How the Ink Feels," an elegant traveling exhibit of letterpress broadsides by notable poets and artists; and become acquainted with other conference attendees while sampling delicious desserts.
Transportation will be provided between the conference center and UAA
Continental Breakfast
Bring titles to share that you would like to recommend for the 2006-2007 Battle of the Books List. This is meant to be a discussion workshop on possible battle titles to give to grade level chairs to help them form the list.
Business meeting of the Databases for Alaskans Committee
Annual meeting open to anyone interested in intellectual freedom.
Annual meeting open to anyone interested in cataloging.
LearnAlaska is a valuable tool for librarians, teachers, students, and researchers interested in Alaska history, culture and arts. It is an online educational tool used to view, sort and display digital museum and library objects from Alaska’s Digital Archives. Learn how this software helps teachers and librarians collaborate to develop model lessons and corresponding rubrics to enhance student learning of Alaska History at the high school level. The software was field-tested by a team of secondary librarians and social studies teachers. Their accomplishments will also be shared. Audience: all computer skill levels
Greg Notess will define each project, give an update on their current status, show their limitations, and suggest ideas for use of each.
A workshop based on the premise that all of us who believe in libraries can help get the message across and can, by our own enthusiasm, inspire others to use and support this unique resource. In this age of dot.coms, cell phones, and road rage, caring and conviction still rule. It’s time to get passionate about “selling” libraries. Learn about the most powerful form of advertising: What it is? Why do it? Who to do it? How to do it? Where does customer service fit in?
This session is supported in part by a grant from the Neal-Schuman Foundation.
In this presentation, Ben discusses his difficulties as a child learning to read and write English as a second language. Growing up in South American boarding schools gave Ben first hand experience with educational systems where rote knowledge and absolute discipline were revered. Thirty years of escaping the attitudes and limitations instilled during this rigid period gave Ben a new perspective on education. His insights will help teachers and librarians to better understand the needs of their At-Risk students.
Public libraries are in trouble. What are the real challenges and the real dangers? What is merely a mirage? If public libraries really are in danger, what can we do to assure a place in the future?
Marshall Breeding discusses the practical issues involved in implementing a wireless network in a library setting. Key topics include figuring out when wireless technology makes sense instead of a traditional wired network, understanding and addressing the security issues involved, and outlining the basic information needed to get started on implementing a wireless hot spot.
Human beings still love books -- the way they look and feel in your hand, especially the handcrafted artist book. Learn how to bring patrons into your library with this project during National Library Week or any other promotional event. By the end of the two workshops (1.5 hours each), you will have a beautiful handmade artist book, using handcrafted banana, bamboo, or rice papers, ready for journal writing, note taking, artwork, or gifts. All materials provided.
Max. number of attendees: 15. Participants must register for part 2 (Session #101).
An overview of descriptive cataloging of DVD videorecordings. When you’re looking at a videorecording record, how do you quickly tell if it is a DVD or VHS? Come and find out!
An introduction to the elements and principles of graphic design and how to use them to create effective communications.
UAA and United Way of Anchorage are collaborating to connect healthcare services throughout Alaska to the health topics pages on MedlinePlus.gov, the National Library of Medicine’s consumer health website. Alaskans will be able to link from each MedlinePlus health topic to related services locally - hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, support groups, and others. Librarians across the state are invited to contribute information on healthcare services where they live.
Audience: all levels
Learn about Alaska’s Ask a Librarian virtual reference project and how it can help you and your library patrons. What is virtual reference? What kinds of questions are answered? Who staffs it? What technology is used? When is it open? What do Alaskans think of it?
Poster Session
Teri Arion, a librarian who works with GIS will explain the different tools used in GIS systems online. Judie Triplehorn and Cathy Vitale will highlight some excellent GIS sources. Anything that can be put on a map can be shown on a GIS site. Join the panel to explore these geographic information sites.
Poster Session
Demonstration Alaska Department of Natural Resources. State Land Information.
Poster Session
Have an informal chat with Julie Moore about the places she’s been as a cataloger. Julie will talk about the variety of her experiences with different libraries. Local practices, the people, the cultures, and most importantly the food!
Poster Session
UAF Science Education Outreach Network is an innovative new resource for librarians and educators across Alaska. The Network is a database-driven Web site developed to provide information about the wide variety of science education outreach programs and resources available at UAF. Prior to its development, science education outreach efforts occurred independently of each other. The UAF Science Education Outreach Network represents a campus-wide effort to make information about science education outreach available to K-12 students and teachers, UAF students, and statewide community members.
Poster Session
For reasons of economy and convenience, Alaska state agencies, like their counterparts in other states have been increasingly moving publications to the Internet. Learn how Alaska has been trying to meet the challenges of identifying, capturing, and preserving state publications in electronic format since 1998.
Poster Session
This paper originated as a result of the introduction of the new, more user friendly National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) web site on July 20, 2005. The new look and organization of information has been designed to give visitors to the site immediate access to the most frequently requested information. New portals have been designed for the General Public, Genealogists/Family Historians, Veterans and their Families, Educators and Students, Researchers, Records Managers, Preservation and Archives Professionals, Information Security Specialists, Federal Employees, Members of Congress, and Press/Journalists.
Poster Session
This project aims to teach rural librarians how to search for health information and what resources are available to help them teach their communities how to use this information. Audience: Rural Librarians and rural library staff
Poster Session
Course development team members will discuss the vision and the realities of developing UAA’s online, interactive, Web-based library course. They will also discuss ideas for future projects at the Consortium Library and applications for non-academic libraries.
Poster Session
An overview of two major media preservation events that will be taking place in Alaska during 2006. Voices and Images of Alaska (VIA)—a project of the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)— is a statewide inventory and assessment of Alaska’s culturally and historically important media collections. The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will be bringing their annual meeting—one of the largest events in the worldwide media preservation community—to Anchorage in October 2006.
Poster Session
Ben tells of the challenges faced in creating his books. His stories and a slide presentation allow a wonderful view inside Ben’s research as he tries to uncover the emotions that bring the heart to each story. These experiences include raising a 700 pound black bear, flying to the North Pole, living with the homeless, working with dolphins, attending Space Camp, going undercover with Drug Enforcement Agents, and living with the Maasai in Africa. The diversity of Ben’s writing and research is what has made his books so appealing. This presentation is both informative and entertaining.
All AkLA members are encouraged to attend.
AkLA E-Council Board Meeting
This hands-on introduction to consumer health information will look at how consumers look for health information and how to cope with the challenge of medical terminology, before highlighting a variety of reliable web sites to help with frequently asked medical questions. Specific websites include MedlinePlus.gov, DIRLINE, and ClinicalTrials.gov as well as other useful sites offering pharmaceutical information, drug-interactions and herbal information. Special websites for Arctic health and Alaska Natives will also be explored.
Audience: all levels
No one can read everything, but library users seem to expect that we do. So, the Fairbanks area has been holding monthly genre study sessions for library staff since 2001. Learn how they are organized from coordinator Georgine Olson and how useful they are from long-time participant Mary Ellen Baker.
All attendees must bring one idea of a successful program and all the promotional and other significant materials to show and tell.
Librarian, Robin Turk and Language Arts teacher, Emily Forstner, share projects, ideas and the relationships of collaboration at Colony Middle School.
Today, many children and adults are being diagnosed with some type of learning disability. The Library can be a better place of learning for these patrons by becoming more AWARE of what a learning disability is, by reducing BARRIERS to learning that are found in the Library, and by introducing CREATIVE assistive technologies to accommodate different learning abilities.
New tools make it quick and easy to create movies for online demonstrations and tutorials with a minimum of effort. Explore using software such as Camtasia, Captivate, Wink, and even PowerPoint to record screen actions and quickly create online tutorials. Also learn which have the option for adding an audio commentary.
How do we distinguish technological hype from the technologies and technological concepts that will actually keep our libraries alive in the "new information landscape"? In this easy to follow yet technically precise session, I will discuss and demonstrate practical and successful technologies and technology concepts that your library can start using now to help ensure its role in the community.
Bibliographic Control and the Web
Though reading is often considered a solitary pursuit, it is a profoundly social experience. This session will explore the social nature of reading, what librarians can learn about the reading experience from book groups both online and face-to-face, and will explore the role that popular fiction plays in the everyday lives of readers.
Stay up-to-date with OCLC Western General Description of Program: OCLC Western has been a long-standing resource for Alaska libraries. Come learn how OCLC assists member libraries in many aspects including support of OCLC products, professional workshops, library and collection analysis, digitization and preservation, and electronic resources. OCLC will update you on OCLC’s Connexion cataloging interface and WorldCat Resource Sharing interface for Interlibrary Loan, as well as, illustrate important resources available to membership cooperatives.
This will be an open discussion of issues like keystroke monitoring, insecure public terminals, and the use of private information on public computers. It will also touch on how to help victems of identity theft.
Sue Sherif of the Alaska State Library will show some of the contenders for the 2006 Caldecott Award and discuss the process of choosing the medal-winner.
Do you want to provide web resources for your staff and students but haven’t. Come see a basic format that will allow provide your patrons the information they need.
Audience: School Librarians who are novice web creators.
Judith Anglin and Janelle Maki honor AkLA and AkASL award winners.
Continental Breakfast
Judy Green will show slides of her sabbatical work in libraries and library schools and her travels in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Thailand last year.
Discussion of programs and plans for cooperative CD issues.
Includes a report from attendees of the International Indigenous Librarians Forum held in Regina, Saskatchewan in September 2005.
Participants will consider how health information in print differs from that on the Web and learn to apply five basic criteria for evaluating web sites. This hands-on session will also examine health stories in the media using the same criteria and suggest additional strategies for following up on the research behind the claims. Exercises and activities will aid in illustrating and showing the value of the principles discussed.
Audience: all levels
Alaska’s libraries are still the refuge for the mentally ill and public library staff deal with this population all the time. How can library staff uphold the confusing array of privacy laws and constitutional rights when trying to assist these patrons while not alienating other library patrons.
Discussion will focus on new titles of YA Lit. and how to handle those questionable ones that all the kids want to read.
Learn how you can develop goals and objectives, polices and plans that will get the result you want in your library. Presenters will have attended Results Boot Camp and will be sharing ideas and techniques learned there.
Academic libraries exist to further learning, yet it's difficult to know how well they accomplish that mission. This workshop will explore the contradictory politics of assessment, provide some examples of naturalistic assessment tools, and give participants an opportunity to draft a library assessment plan focused on student learning.
When do technology projects succeed and when do they fail? A panel will discuss recent technology applications in Alaskan libraries including blogging, e-books, podcasting, movie-making, and wireless Internet access, and what made them successful or not.
Partcipants complete the book projects started in Part 1.
Max. number of attendees: 15. Participants must register for Part 1 (Session #60).
This program will describe strategies used to design accessible, standards based websites using Macromedia DreamWeaver. Topics Covered: Server-side includes (SSI); Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); 508 Compliance; ISO Standards; W3C; XHTML, XML and depreciated HTML
This presentation is intended to share the experiences of Mat-Su librarians as they created and aligned their information literacy curriculum to the State of Alaska standards.
A review of the Patriot Act and proposed changes to the law. The impact of the Patriot Act on libraries and their users will be discussed.
Jazz up your story hours with information on fun, easy and affordable ways you can educate, inspire and entertain the youngest library users.
This will be an interactive session with the Library Development staff of the State Library to discuss the status if libraries in the state, strengths and weakness, current statewide initiatives, and programs and future opportunities.
A discussion of the pros, cons, and necessities of participating in the E-Rate program. The first half hour will be for non-E-Rate librarians and the second half hour will be a question and answer session for those who participate and information about new developments.
Have you been asked to deliver training to library patrons and/or students and faculty? Would you like to learn how to create training that gets your customers up and running quickly by meeting their essential learning needs? Do you teach customers library skills one-on-one, but you don't have a background in creating instructional materials? Get the tools, confidence, and knowledge you need to tackle real-world training situations.
PubMed, the premier database for medical and veterinary literature, is available free-of-charge on the Web. After consumer health sources have been tried, PubMed is the next source of medical information for patrons needing more in-depth articles, yet few understand how to use it effectively. This hands-on session will cover basic searching techniques; applying limits, such as language and age group; reviewing and saving results; and obtaining the complete journal articles for selected citations.
Audience: all levels
Yes, it is possible for a small public library with not much money and not much space to build a solid and patron-responsive fiction collection. It’s not magic, it’s not science, it’s more like an art. Learn a few useful "tricks of the trade" that have worked for other small libraries.
The first part of the program will be a multi-media presentation of innovative and successful programs from various school librarians and the second half of the program would be sharing of ideas that those who are attending the session may want to share.
In 2004-2005 school year I created a collection of Samoan, Hmong, Tagalog, and Russian materials through funding provided by the AK State Library Interlibrary Cooperation Grant. This presentation will cover the ins and outs of pulling together such a collection (all my horrifying mistakes will be revealed).
A history of comic books and graphic novels. I will give a general background of the material and make suggestions for material to include in public and school libraries. A bibliography will be provided.
Many information professionals are in positions of management or authority to effect change. Others are in the early stages of their careers and may consider their leadership scope moderate. Yet all have the opportunity to assume a proactive role in creating positive results for their organizations. This session addresses the challenges of a work environment characterized by relentless changes, an focuses on techniques for building the credibility and the relationships necessary to inspire productive change.
Universal Design is an approach to teaching that focuses on the diverse learning needs and abilities of learners. Its main idea is to create a learning environment that offers multiple ways to receive and express information. This class will look at the basic concepts of Universal Design as well as some creative examples of how Universal Design ideas can be applied to teaching Boolean and Internet Searching Strategies.
A look at how librarians can use their knowledge of sources and advanced search techniques to teach users as well as to market library services by demonstrating their skills to users.