Welcome to the Libraratory! 2024 VLA/VLACRL Annual Conference

FREE: Chrysler Museum Highlights Public Tour 11:00am - 11:45am

FREE: Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio (special theme f... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

FREE: Freemason Street Baptist Church Bell Tower... 11:45am - 12:30pm

Nursing Parents Room 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Introvert Lounge 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 05: Innovative Tools for Today’s Libraries: NFC Tags, Robotics, and Plickers 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 01: Building an Accommodating and Inclusive Librartory With Experiential Learning Bricks 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 13: V is for Victory! A Different Way to Conduct Reference Interactions 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 10: There’s a Map for That: Showcasing Alternate Study Spaces During a Library Renovation 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 04: How are Virginia’s Academic Libraries Growing Library Workers? 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 15: What You See is What You Get: Managing Part-time Employees with Visual Task Management Systems 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 09: The Holocaust, Comics, and Libraries—Oh my! 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 07: Regional Patron Usage: a Map-based Visualization 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 06: It’s Alive! Animating Student Success with Library Laptops 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 14: VLA Scholarship Committee: Helping Students Soar 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 03: Enhancing Community Wellness Through Innovative Library Initiatives: The Nursing Mothers' Room Project at Hopewell Li... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 02: Camping is for everyone! Setting up a Community Gear Library 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Early Registration and Badge Pickup 5:00pm - 7:00pm

FREE: Queer History Walking Tour 3:30pm - 4:30pm

FREE: Ohef Sholom Library & Archives and Bonk-Rivin Holocaust Co... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

FREE: Sargeant Memorial Collection Highlights To... 3:30pm - 4:15pm

Poster 11: Undergraduate Data Literacy in Engineering: A Collaborative Approach 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 12: Undergraduate Student Work in Cataloging and Metadata 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 17: Library Censorship Based on State’s Demographic 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster 08: Streamlining Access: The Merge of Information Services and Interlibrary Loan for an (Almost) Seamless(ish) Library Ex... 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Nursing Parents Room 9:00am - 6:00pm

Introvert Lounge 9:00am - 6:00pm

Zen Den 17 1:00pm -
18 2:00pm

Exhibit Hall Ribbon Cutting/Registration and Badge Pickup 9:00am - 5:00pm

Thusday Box Lunch/Ticketed Event 12:00pm - 1:00pm

All-Conference Refreshment Break: Norfolk Ballroom 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Dog Park 17 1:00pm -
18 2:00pm

VLACRL Business Meeting 12:15pm - 12:45pm

Libratories of Democracy: Resources from the U.S... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Patrons LOVE Them: Writing Big Programs 1:00pm - 1:45pm

What Do Public Librarians Need to Know About Vir... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Empower Staff, Enhance Services: AI in Libraries 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Moving Beyond DEI 101: From Intentions into Acti... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

More with Less: Experiments in Merchandising to... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Teen Volunteer Programs: Encourage Meaningful Vo... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

We Outchea!: A Conversation For Us By Us 1:00pm - 1:45pm

At Your Leisure: Reading for Fun at the Academic... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

DIVERSIFY IT! Reading Challenge 1:00pm - 1:45pm

The “library of [awesome] things”: A Library’s J... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Welcome to the Table: How to Succeed as a New Ma... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Revitalizing Community Spaces: Adapting Library... 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Cardinal Cup Author Spotlight 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Small but Mighty: The Struggles and Successes of... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Eradicating Human Trafficking Training 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Intellectual Freedom 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Thursday Lightning Talks: Naming Cultures: Celeb... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Self-Advocacy and Support for Librarians with AD... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Out of the Blue Sky: Executing Large Events 2:00pm - 2:45pm

The “Enshittification” of the Internet and the I... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

“Think Global, Cook Local”: A Recipe for Bringin... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Thursday Lightning Talks: How to Partner with St... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

The Freedom to Read 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Thursday Lightning Talks: Our Stories, Our Queri... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Building a Collaborative Translation Framework i... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

How are Virginia’s Libraries Growing Library Wor... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Libraratory Inspection: Best Practices for Suppo... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

That All May Read: Talking Books and You! 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Traveling through the Wilderness: Blazing New Tr... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Creating a Community Chain Reaction through Targ... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Accidental Librarianship 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Generations United: Crafting Connections Through... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors an... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

From idea to impact: Publishing with the Virgini... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Thursday Lightning Talks: Whiteboards for the wi... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Library Patron... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

Ambitious for the Commonwealth: The Library of V... 2:00pm - 2:45pm

VLACRL Networking Roundtable 2:00pm - 2:45pm

VIVA Annual Member Meeting 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Offboarding Onboarding: the Cohort Model and Bui... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Where Did This Come From?: Provenance Research f... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

The Future Is Now: Building an AI Community of P... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Supporting Your Autistic & ADHD Coworkers 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Floating Collections: Evolution and Process Asse... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Outward In: Developing Community-Led Programming 4:00pm - 4:45pm

What is a Digital Navigator: Providing a Gateway... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

3D Scantastic! 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Asking the Right Questions And Getting to Yes!:... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

The Best of Both Worlds? Joint-Use Public & Comm... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Things Are (Maybe?) About to Get VERY Weird -- P... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Science Sleuths: Designing and Playing a Source... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors an... 4:00pm - 4:45pm

Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Nursing Parents Room 9:00am - 3:00pm

Introvert Lounge 9:00am - 3:00pm

Registration and Badge Pickup 8:30am - 2:00pm

Buffet Lunch/Ticketed Event 12:00pm - 1:15pm

Innovating with Intergenerational Programming 9:00am - 9:45am

Disinformation, Book-Bans, Tribalism: How Did We... 9:00am - 9:45am

Pohick Regional Library's POD: An antidote to lo... 9:00am - 9:45am

Lightning Talks Friday: The Turtle and the Hare:... 9:00am - 9:45am

Challenging the Challengers: ALA's Policy Corps... 9:00am - 9:45am

The Power of Partnerships in Meeting Community N... 9:00am - 9:45am

Let's Get Inclusive Using the Power of Data 9:00am - 9:45am

Where the Hell is That File?: Tactics to Organiz... 9:00am - 9:45am

Lightning Talks Friday: Low Risk, High Reward: S... 9:00am - 9:45am

Laying Out the Welcome Mat (Or Not) ~ Designing... 9:00am - 9:45am

Extending Reality 9:00am - 9:45am

Are We Supporting Neurodiverse Job Candidates?:... 9:00am - 9:45am

Cardinal Cup Overfloweth and Book Giveaway 10:00am - 10:45am

Reader’s Advisory: Ask Us Anything 10:00am - 10:45am

Connecting Experiences, Year One: Rebuilding a V... 10:00am - 10:45am

Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders: Building an Inte... 10:00am - 10:45am

Book Résumés: An Innovative Tool and Collaborati... 10:00am - 10:45am

Howdy Partner! Working Across Agencies to Better... 10:00am - 10:45am

Using a Makerspace to Promote a Holistic Student... 10:00am - 10:45am

A Low Code Solution to Scheduling Staff 10:00am - 10:45am

Towards a Library Metaverse: Transforming Mason... 10:00am - 10:45am

Tackling Climate Change Together via the Librara... 10:00am - 10:45am

This is Not a StoryWalk® 10:00am - 10:45am

Search Advocacy: Enhancing Library Inclusivity a... 10:00am - 10:45am

Help! I'm in a Crisis! Public Relations 101 for... 10:00am - 10:45am

Be Prepared for Plot Twists: Hosting a Human Lib... 10:00am - 10:45am

Let's Get Creative: Bringing the Arts to Public... 11:00am - 11:45am

From Virginia to Guinea: School Libraries Transf... 11:00am - 11:45am

Protecting the Right to Read in Virginia’s Publi... 11:00am - 11:45am

Hosting In-Person FAFSA (Free Application for Fe... 11:00am - 11:45am

Solidarity in Advocacy and Policy Work 11:00am - 11:45am

Transcribing the Past: Two Libraries Experiment... 11:00am - 11:45am

Publishing Practicalities, Peer Review, and Pred... 11:00am - 11:45am

Developing an Academic Library Undergraduate Int... 11:00am - 11:45am

Reimagining Library Services and Library Leaders... 11:00am - 11:45am

Be a Citizen Scientist and Bring Real-world Scie... 11:00am - 11:45am

Connecting with Social Services 11:00am - 11:45am

The Writer's Perspective 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Staff Appreciation & Boosting Staff Morale in th... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

So They Put You In Charge of Summer Reading - No... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Innovating Across City Lines: How Three Distinct... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Unraveling a Broken Model: Exploring Librarians'... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Let It Grow: Cultivating a Seed Library Within Y... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Community Mosaics 1:15pm - 2:00pm

DIY Lists in Libby and hoopla 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Optimizing Research Support with AI Integration:... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

The ABC’s of Babysitting 101 at Your Library: Ho... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

DEI in Resource Description for Small Libraries 1:15pm - 2:00pm