Welcome to the Libraratory! 2024 VLA/VLACRL Annual...

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Welcome to the Libraratory! 2024 VLA/VLACRL Annual Conference

10:00am EDT

FREE: Chrysler Museum of Art

11:00am EDT

FREE: Chrysler Museum Highlights Public Tour Chrysler Museum of Art

11:45am EDT

FREE: Freemason Street Baptist Church Bell Tower Tour and Noon Recital Freemason Street Baptist Church

12:00pm EDT

FREE: Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio (special theme for VLA!) Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio

2:00pm EDT

FREE: Ohef Sholom Library & Archives and Bonk-Rivin Holocaust Collection Tour Ohef Sholom Temple FREE: The Slover Tour

3:30pm EDT

FREE: Sargeant Memorial Collection Highlights Tour Slover Library Sargeant Memorial Collection/2nd Floor FREE: Queer History Walking Tour Norfolk Waterside Marriott Lobby

5:00pm EDT

Early Registration and Badge Pickup Norfolk Foyer, First Floor Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom Washington & Wilson Introvert Lounge Madison Room Nursing Parents Room Lynnhaven Room All-Conference Poster Session Poster 01: Building an Accommodating and Inclusive Librartory With Experiential Learning Bricks Norfolk Ballroom Poster 02: Camping is for everyone! Setting up a Community Gear Library Norfolk Ballroom Poster 03: Enhancing Community Wellness Through Innovative Library Initiatives: The Nursing Mothers' Room Project at Hopewell Library Norfolk Ballroom Poster 04: How are Virginia’s Academic Libraries Growing Library Workers? Norfolk Ballroom Poster 05: Innovative Tools for Today’s Libraries: NFC Tags, Robotics, and Plickers Norfolk Ballroom Poster 06: It’s Alive! Animating Student Success with Library Laptops Norfolk Ballroom Poster 07: Regional Patron Usage: a Map-based Visualization Norfolk Ballroom Poster 08: Streamlining Access: The Merge of Information Services and Interlibrary Loan for an (Almost) Seamless(ish) Library Experience TBA Poster 09: The Holocaust, Comics, and Libraries—Oh my! Norfolk Ballroom Poster 10: There’s a Map for That: Showcasing Alternate Study Spaces During a Library Renovation Norfolk Ballroom Poster 11: Undergraduate Data Literacy in Engineering: A Collaborative Approach TBA Poster 12: Undergraduate Student Work in Cataloging and Metadata TBA Poster 13: V is for Victory! A Different Way to Conduct Reference Interactions Norfolk Ballroom Poster 14: VLA Scholarship Committee: Helping Students Soar Norfolk Ballroom Poster 15: What You See is What You Get: Managing Part-time Employees with Visual Task Management Systems Norfolk Ballroom Poster 16: Corporate Stockholm Syndrome: An Explanation for Employee Commitment in Consistently Dysfunctional Library Organizations Poster 17: Library Censorship Based on State’s Demographic TBA Poster 18: Empowering Library Staff in Makerspaces Through the 'Library Makers' Community

9:00am EDT

Exhibit Hall Ribbon Cutting/Registration and Badge Pickup Norfolk Ballroom Introvert Lounge Madison Room Nursing Parents Room Lynnhaven Room

10:00am EDT

Opening General Session and Keynote Address by Megan Lotts

12:00pm EDT

Thusday Box Lunch/Ticketed Event Norfolk Ballroom

12:15pm EDT

VLACRL Business Meeting TBA

1:00pm EDT

Cardinal Cup Author Spotlight TBA Patrons LOVE Them: Writing Big Programs TBA Empower Staff, Enhance Services: AI in Libraries TBA Libratories of Democracy: Resources from the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) TBA More with Less: Experiments in Merchandising to Increase Circulation TBA Moving Beyond DEI 101: From Intentions into Actions TBA Revitalizing Community Spaces: Adapting Library Design for Changing Needs TBA Teen Volunteer Programs: Encourage Meaningful Volunteer Experiences at Your Library TBA The “library of [awesome] things”: A Library’s Journey toward a Sustainable Collection of Unconventional Library Materials TBA We Outchea!: A Conversation For Us By Us TBA Welcome to the Table: How to Succeed as a New Manager TBA What Do Public Librarians Need to Know About Virginia Public Schools? TBA At Your Leisure: Reading for Fun at the Academic Library TBA DIVERSIFY IT! Reading Challenge TBA Dog Park Presidential Foyer, Third Floor Zen Den Monroe Room

2:00pm EDT

Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors and Illustrators: Programs for Kids 12 and Under TBA Out of the Blue Sky: Executing Large Events TBA Thursday Lightning Talks Thursday Lightning Talks: How to Partner with Student Organizations on Campus TBA Thursday Lightning Talks: Naming Cultures: Celebrating Linguistic Diversity TBA Thursday Lightning Talks: Our Stories, Our Queries, Our Health: Health Information Seeking Behavior in the Context of Blackness TBA Thursday Lightning Talks: Whiteboards for the win! TBA Accidental Librarianship TBA Generations United: Crafting Connections Through Library Programs (Intergenerational Programs) TBA How are Virginia’s Libraries Growing Library Workers? TBA Intellectual Freedom TBA Self-Advocacy and Support for Librarians with ADHD TBA Small but Mighty: The Struggles and Successes of Building an Outreach Team from Scratch at a Small Institution TBA Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Library Patrons TBA VLACRL Networking Roundtable TBA Ambitious for the Commonwealth: The Library of Virginia new directions TBA Building a Collaborative Translation Framework in Libraries TBA Creating a Community Chain Reaction through Targeted Focus TBA Eradicating Human Trafficking Training TBA From idea to impact: Publishing with the Virginia Libraries Journal TBA Libraratory Inspection: Best Practices for Supporting Experimentation, Innovation, Creative Problem Solving, and FAILs TBA That All May Read: Talking Books and You! TBA The Freedom to Read TBA Traveling through the Wilderness: Blazing New Trails in Children’s Outreach to Rural Service Populations TBA “Think Global, Cook Local”: A Recipe for Bringing Culinary Literacy Programming to Rural Libraries TBA The “Enshittification” of the Internet and the Impact on Libraries TBA Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom Washington & Wilson

2:45pm EDT

All-Conference Refreshment Break: Norfolk Ballroom Norfolk Ballroom

4:00pm EDT

Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors and Illustrators: Programs for Teens and Adults TBA 3D Scantastic! TBA Asking the Right Questions And Getting to Yes!: Transforming the Virginia Library Leadership Academy (VALLA) TBA Floating Collections: Evolution and Process Assessment TBA Offboarding Onboarding: the Cohort Model and Building Institutional Culture TBA Outward In: Developing Community-Led Programming TBA Science Sleuths: Designing and Playing a Source Evaluation Escape Room Challenge TBA Supporting Your Autistic & ADHD Coworkers TBA The Best of Both Worlds? Joint-Use Public & Community College Libraries in Virginia TBA The Future Is Now: Building an AI Community of Practice to Educate and Prepare Library Staff for AI’s Challenges and Possibilities TBA Things Are (Maybe?) About to Get VERY Weird -- Possible AI Futures, the Information Landscape, and Libraries TBA What is a Digital Navigator: Providing a Gateway to Digital Literacy Skills TBA Where Did This Come From?: Provenance Research for Any Library TBA VIVA Annual Member Meeting TBA

5:00pm EDT

LGBTQIA+ Forum Business Meeting Librarians of Color Business Meeting Local and Family History Business Meeting Makerspace Business Meeting New Members Roundtable Forum Business Meeting VLAPAF Business Meeting Youth & Family Services Business Meeting

6:00pm EDT

Thursday Evening Dine-Arounds

8:00pm EDT

All-Conference Build-A-Bike Social

8:30am EDT

Registration and Badge Pickup Norfolk Ballroom

9:00am EDT

Extending Reality TBA Friday Lightning Talks Lightning Talks Friday: Low Risk, High Reward: Shifting to Online Workshops for Broader Reach TBA Lightning Talks Friday: The Turtle and the Hare: A Project Manager’s Journey to Optimize a Shared Digital Workspace for Discovery, Collaboration, and Usability. TBA Challenging the Challengers: ALA's Policy Corps and Unite Against Book Bans TBA How Did We Get Out of this Morass Before? (Hint: Librarians, a responsible press, and some very clever teenagers) TBA Innovating with Intergenerational Programming TBA Laying Out the Welcome Mat (Or Not) ~ Designing an Inclusive & Engaging Orientation Program TBA Let's Get Inclusive Using the Power of Data TBA Pohick Regional Library's POD: An antidote to loneliness TBA The Power of Partnerships in Meeting Community Needs TBA Where the Hell is That File?: Tactics to Organize Your Library’s Knowledge TBA Are We Supporting Neurodiverse Job Candidates?: Creating a Neuro-Inclusive Workplace TBA Introvert Lounge Madison Room Nursing Parents Room Lynnhaven Room

10:00am EDT

Towards a Library Metaverse: Transforming Mason Libraries with an Immersive 3D Virtual and Augmented Reality Tour TBA A Low Code Solution to Scheduling Staff TBA Be Prepared for Plot Twists: Hosting a Human Library TBA Book Résumés: An Innovative Tool and Collaborative Solution for Supporting Intellectual Freedom TBA Cardinal Cup Overfloweth and Book Giveaway TBA Connecting Experiences, Year One: Rebuilding a VLA Mentorship Program TBA Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders: Building an Internal Leadership Development Journey TBA Help! I'm in a Crisis! Public Relations 101 for Libraries TBA Howdy Partner! Working Across Agencies to Better Serve Communities Affected by Dementia TBA Reader’s Advisory: Ask Us Anything TBA Tackling Climate Change Together via the Libraratory TBA This is Not a StoryWalk® TBA Search Advocacy: Enhancing Library Inclusivity and Reducing Bias TBA Using a Makerspace to Promote a Holistic Student Experience TBA

11:00am EDT

Let's Get Creative: Bringing the Arts to Public Libraries TBA Be a Citizen Scientist and Bring Real-world Science Programs to Your Library TBA Connecting with Social Services TBA From Virginia to Guinea: School Libraries Transform TBA Hosting In-Person FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Assistance @ Your Library TBA Naloxone Distribution in Public Libraries Protecting the Right to Read in Virginia’s Public Schools and Public Libraries TBA Reimagining Library Services and Library Leadership TBA Solidarity in Advocacy and Policy Work TBA Transcribing the Past: Two Libraries Experiment with Digital Preservation TBA Developing an Academic Library Undergraduate Internship Program: Student Perspectives and Recommendations TBA Publishing Practicalities, Peer Review, and Predatory Practices TBA

12:00pm EDT

Buffet Lunch/Ticketed Event Norfolk Ballrooms I & II

1:15pm EDT

Community Mosaics TBA Connect with the Youth and Family Services Forum DEI in Resource Description for Small Libraries TBA DIY Lists in Libby and hoopla TBA Innovating Across City Lines: How Three Distinct City Library Systems Work Together for Staff Development TBA Let It Grow: Cultivating a Seed Library Within Your Budget TBA So They Put You In Charge of Summer Reading - Now What? TBA Staff Appreciation & Boosting Staff Morale in the Workplace TBA The ABC’s of Babysitting 101 at Your Library: How a Community Observation Gave Birth to a Multi-Problem Solution TBA The Writer's Perspective TBA Optimizing Research Support with AI Integration: Reflecting & Exploring TBA Unraveling a Broken Model: Exploring Librarians' Experimentation and Early Use of ChatGPT TBA

2:00pm EDT

Closing Session: VLA Business Meeting & Scholarship Raffle Drawing