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Wednesday
, October 16
Chrysler Museum of Art
11:00am •
FREE: Chrysler Museum Highlights Public Tour
Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio
12:00pm •
FREE: Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio (special theme for VLA!)
Freemason Street Baptist Church
11:45am •
FREE: Freemason Street Baptist Church Bell Tower Tour and Noon Recital
Lynnhaven Room
5:00pm •
Nursing Parents Room
Madison Room
5:00pm •
Introvert Lounge
Norfolk Ballroom
5:00pm •
Poster 06: It’s Alive! Animating Student Success with Library Laptops
5:00pm •
Poster 07: Regional Patron Usage: a Map-based Visualization
5:00pm •
Poster 01: Building an Accommodating and Inclusive Librartory With Experiential Learning Bricks
5:00pm •
Poster 13: V is for Victory! A Different Way to Conduct Reference Interactions
5:00pm •
Poster 05: Innovative Tools for Today’s Libraries: NFC Tags, Robotics, and Plickers
5:00pm •
Poster 14: VLA Scholarship Committee: Helping Students Soar
5:00pm •
Poster 04: How are Virginia’s Academic Libraries Growing Library Workers?
5:00pm •
Poster 10: There’s a Map for That: Showcasing Alternate Study Spaces During a Library Renovation
5:00pm •
Poster 02: Camping is for everyone! Setting up a Community Gear Library
5:00pm •
Poster 09: The Holocaust, Comics, and Libraries—Oh my!
5:00pm •
Poster 03: Enhancing Community Wellness Through Innovative Library Initiatives: The Nursing Mothers' Room Project at Hopewell Library
5:00pm •
Poster 15: What You See is What You Get: Managing Part-time Employees with Visual Task Management Systems
Norfolk Foyer, First Floor
5:00pm •
Early Registration and Badge Pickup
Norfolk Waterside Marriott Lobby
3:30pm •
FREE: Queer History Walking Tour
Ohef Sholom Temple
2:00pm •
FREE: Ohef Sholom Library & Archives and Bonk-Rivin Holocaust Collection Tour
Slover Library Sargeant Memorial Collection/2nd Floor
3:30pm •
FREE: Sargeant Memorial Collection Highlights Tour
TBA
5:00pm •
Poster 17: Library Censorship Based on State’s Demographic
5:00pm •
Poster 12: Undergraduate Student Work in Cataloging and Metadata
5:00pm •
Poster 08: Streamlining Access: The Merge of Information Services and Interlibrary Loan for an (Almost) Seamless(ish) Library Experience
5:00pm •
Poster 11: Undergraduate Data Literacy in Engineering: A Collaborative Approach
Washington & Wilson
5:00pm •
Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom
Thursday
, October 17
Lynnhaven Room
9:00am •
Nursing Parents Room
Madison Room
9:00am •
Introvert Lounge
Monroe Room
1:00pm •
Zen Den
Norfolk Ballroom
9:00am •
Exhibit Hall Ribbon Cutting/Registration and Badge Pickup
12:00pm •
Thusday Box Lunch/Ticketed Event
2:45pm •
All-Conference Refreshment Break: Norfolk Ballroom
Presidential Foyer, Third Floor
1:00pm •
Dog Park
TBA
12:15pm •
VLACRL Business Meeting
1:00pm •
Patrons LOVE Them: Writing Big Programs
1:00pm •
The “library of [awesome] things”: A Library’s Journey toward a Sustainable Collection of Unconventional Library Materials
1:00pm •
What Do Public Librarians Need to Know About Virginia Public Schools?
1:00pm •
Empower Staff, Enhance Services: AI in Libraries
1:00pm •
Teen Volunteer Programs: Encourage Meaningful Volunteer Experiences at Your Library
1:00pm •
We Outchea!: A Conversation For Us By Us
1:00pm •
Revitalizing Community Spaces: Adapting Library Design for Changing Needs
1:00pm •
More with Less: Experiments in Merchandising to Increase Circulation
1:00pm •
Cardinal Cup Author Spotlight
1:00pm •
Moving Beyond DEI 101: From Intentions into Actions
1:00pm •
Welcome to the Table: How to Succeed as a New Manager
1:00pm •
Libratories of Democracy: Resources from the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO)
1:00pm •
At Your Leisure: Reading for Fun at the Academic Library
1:00pm •
DIVERSIFY IT! Reading Challenge
2:00pm •
Thursday Lightning Talks: Whiteboards for the win!
2:00pm •
Thursday Lightning Talks: How to Partner with Student Organizations on Campus
2:00pm •
Thursday Lightning Talks: Naming Cultures: Celebrating Linguistic Diversity
2:00pm •
Thursday Lightning Talks: Our Stories, Our Queries, Our Health: Health Information Seeking Behavior in the Context of Blackness
2:00pm •
Out of the Blue Sky: Executing Large Events
2:00pm •
Self-Advocacy and Support for Librarians with ADHD
2:00pm •
Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Library Patrons
2:00pm •
How are Virginia’s Libraries Growing Library Workers?
2:00pm •
Generations United: Crafting Connections Through Library Programs (Intergenerational Programs)
2:00pm •
Small but Mighty: The Struggles and Successes of Building an Outreach Team from Scratch at a Small Institution
2:00pm •
VLACRL Networking Roundtable
2:00pm •
Accidental Librarianship
2:00pm •
Intellectual Freedom
2:00pm •
“Think Global, Cook Local”: A Recipe for Bringing Culinary Literacy Programming to Rural Libraries
2:00pm •
Creating a Community Chain Reaction through Targeted Focus
2:00pm •
Ambitious for the Commonwealth: The Library of Virginia new directions
2:00pm •
Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors and Illustrators: Programs for Kids 12 and Under
2:00pm •
The Freedom to Read
2:00pm •
Building a Collaborative Translation Framework in Libraries
2:00pm •
Eradicating Human Trafficking Training
2:00pm •
That All May Read: Talking Books and You!
2:00pm •
Traveling through the Wilderness: Blazing New Trails in Children’s Outreach to Rural Service Populations
2:00pm •
Libraratory Inspection: Best Practices for Supporting Experimentation, Innovation, Creative Problem Solving, and FAILs
2:00pm •
From idea to impact: Publishing with the Virginia Libraries Journal
2:00pm •
The “Enshittification” of the Internet and the Impact on Libraries
4:00pm •
3D Scantastic!
4:00pm •
VIVA Annual Member Meeting
4:00pm •
Things Are (Maybe?) About to Get VERY Weird -- Possible AI Futures, the Information Landscape, and Libraries
4:00pm •
Author Visit Pitch Session with Local Authors and Illustrators: Programs for Teens and Adults
4:00pm •
Supporting Your Autistic & ADHD Coworkers
4:00pm •
What is a Digital Navigator: Providing a Gateway to Digital Literacy Skills
4:00pm •
The Future Is Now: Building an AI Community of Practice to Educate and Prepare Library Staff for AI’s Challenges and Possibilities
4:00pm •
Asking the Right Questions And Getting to Yes!: Transforming the Virginia Library Leadership Academy (VALLA)
4:00pm •
Outward In: Developing Community-Led Programming
4:00pm •
Science Sleuths: Designing and Playing a Source Evaluation Escape Room Challenge
4:00pm •
The Best of Both Worlds? Joint-Use Public & Community College Libraries in Virginia
4:00pm •
Floating Collections: Evolution and Process Assessment
4:00pm •
Offboarding Onboarding: the Cohort Model and Building Institutional Culture
4:00pm •
Where Did This Come From?: Provenance Research for Any Library
Washington & Wilson
2:00pm •
Capturing Your Stories: Intellectual Freedom
Friday
, October 18
Lynnhaven Room
9:00am •
Nursing Parents Room
Madison Room
9:00am •
Introvert Lounge
Norfolk Ballroom
8:30am •
Registration and Badge Pickup
Norfolk Ballrooms I & II
12:00pm •
Buffet Lunch/Ticketed Event
TBA
9:00am •
Lightning Talks Friday: Low Risk, High Reward: Shifting to Online Workshops for Broader Reach
9:00am •
Lightning Talks Friday: The Turtle and the Hare: A Project Manager’s Journey to Optimize a Shared Digital Workspace for Discovery, Collaboration, and Usability.
9:00am •
Extending Reality
9:00am •
Laying Out the Welcome Mat (Or Not) ~ Designing an Inclusive & Engaging Orientation Program
9:00am •
Pohick Regional Library's POD: An antidote to loneliness
9:00am •
Let's Get Inclusive Using the Power of Data
9:00am •
Challenging the Challengers: ALA's Policy Corps and Unite Against Book Bans
9:00am •
Innovating with Intergenerational Programming
9:00am •
Disinformation, Book-Bans, Tribalism: How Did We Get Out of This Morass Before? (Hint: Librarians & some clever teens)
9:00am •
Where the Hell is That File?: Tactics to Organize Your Library’s Knowledge
9:00am •
The Power of Partnerships in Meeting Community Needs
9:00am •
Are We Supporting Neurodiverse Job Candidates?: Creating a Neuro-Inclusive Workplace
10:00am •
Towards a Library Metaverse: Transforming Mason Libraries with an Immersive 3D Virtual and Augmented Reality Tour
10:00am •
Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders: Building an Internal Leadership Development Journey
10:00am •
Connecting Experiences, Year One: Rebuilding a VLA Mentorship Program
10:00am •
Tackling Climate Change Together via the Libraratory
10:00am •
Howdy Partner! Working Across Agencies to Better Serve Communities Affected by Dementia
10:00am •
Reader’s Advisory: Ask Us Anything
10:00am •
Be Prepared for Plot Twists: Hosting a Human Library
10:00am •
Cardinal Cup Overfloweth and Book Giveaway
10:00am •
A Low Code Solution to Scheduling Staff
10:00am •
Help! I'm in a Crisis! Public Relations 101 for Libraries
10:00am •
Book Résumés: An Innovative Tool and Collaborative Solution for Supporting Intellectual Freedom
10:00am •
This is Not a StoryWalk®
10:00am •
Search Advocacy: Enhancing Library Inclusivity and Reducing Bias
10:00am •
Using a Makerspace to Promote a Holistic Student Experience
11:00am •
Let's Get Creative: Bringing the Arts to Public Libraries
11:00am •
Be a Citizen Scientist and Bring Real-world Science Programs to Your Library
11:00am •
From Virginia to Guinea: School Libraries Transform
11:00am •
Transcribing the Past: Two Libraries Experiment with Digital Preservation
11:00am •
Protecting the Right to Read in Virginia’s Public Schools and Public Libraries
11:00am •
Solidarity in Advocacy and Policy Work
11:00am •
Publishing Practicalities, Peer Review, and Predatory Practices
11:00am •
Reimagining Library Services and Library Leadership
11:00am •
Connecting with Social Services
11:00am •
Hosting In-Person FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Assistance @ Your Library
11:00am •
Developing an Academic Library Undergraduate Internship Program: Student Perspectives and Recommendations
1:15pm •
Community Mosaics
1:15pm •
DEI in Resource Description for Small Libraries
1:15pm •
Staff Appreciation & Boosting Staff Morale in the Workplace
1:15pm •
The Writer's Perspective
1:15pm •
Let It Grow: Cultivating a Seed Library Within Your Budget
1:15pm •
So They Put You In Charge of Summer Reading - Now What?
1:15pm •
DIY Lists in Libby and hoopla
1:15pm •
Innovating Across City Lines: How Three Distinct City Library Systems Work Together for Staff Development
1:15pm •
The ABC’s of Babysitting 101 at Your Library: How a Community Observation Gave Birth to a Multi-Problem Solution
1:15pm •
Optimizing Research Support with AI Integration: Reflecting & Exploring
1:15pm •
Unraveling a Broken Model: Exploring Librarians' Experimentation and Early Use of ChatGPT
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, October 16
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, October 17
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, October 18
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Chrysler Museum of Art
Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio
Freemason Street Baptist Church
Lynnhaven Room
Madison Room
Monroe Room
Norfolk Ballroom
Norfolk Ballrooms I & II
Norfolk Foyer, First Floor
Norfolk Waterside Marriott Lobby
Ohef Sholom Temple
Presidential Foyer, Third Floor
Slover Library Sargeant Memorial Collection/2nd Floor
TBA
Washington & Wilson
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