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2012 Midwinter
Meeting Preview
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Pre-Midwinter Institutes and Special Events
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AASL
Tools for Transforming Your School Library Program
January 20, 8:30 a.m.
Event Code: AAS1
Create a powerful school library program with tools based on AASL's learning
standards and program guidelines. Explore AASL's A Planning Guide for Empowering
Learners with the School Library Program Assessment Rubric and learn
how to collect and use data to drive program improvement.
ALCTS
Libraries, Linked Data and the Semantic Web: Positioning
Our Catalogs to Participate in the 21st Century Global Information Marketplace
January 20, 8:30 a.m.
Event Code: ALCl
Cutting-edge thinkers will discuss how librarians can employ semantic web technologies
and linked data standards to maximize the use of valuable legacy data on the
web and ensure that libraries play a trailblazing role in this new information
landscape.
ACRL
Scholarly Communications: From Understanding to Engagement
January 20, 8:30 a.m.
Event Code: ACR1
ALTAFF
Nuts & Bolts for Trustees, Friends and Foundations
January 20, 8:30 a.m.
Event Code: ALT1
The popular Nuts & Bolts will feature speakers addressing topics of interest
to Friends, Trustees, Foundations, and citizen advocates, followed by roundtable
discussions geared toward each group.
ALTAFF
Gala Author Tea
January 23, 2:00 p.m.
Event Code: ALT2
Bestselling writers will discuss their writing life and forthcoming books.
LITA
Getting Started with Drupal
January 20, 9:00 a.m.
Event Code: LIT1
This preconference will provide a thorough introduction to the Drupal content
management system. Participants should plan to bring a laptop.
Digital Curation at the Command Line
January 20, 9:00 a.m.
Event Code: LIT2
This workshop will provide a hands-on review of basic filesystem structure and
navigation, permissions and ownership, and other tools for bit-level preservation.
Attendees should have basic computing knowledge and some experience with Linux.
Participants will need to bring a laptop.
OLA
Mobilizing Community Support for Your Library: An Advocacy
Institute Workshop
January 20, 1:00 p.m.
Event Code: OLAl
Learn how to make the case for libraries at the state and local level. This
workshop will focus on how advocates can engage their communities to speak out
more effectively for libraries of all types, during times of crisis and others.
YALSA
Innovations in Essential Teen Services
January 20, 12:30 p.m.
Event Code: YAL1
Get tips on how to create easy and affordable digital booktalks; revamp your
homework help services using simple chat, phone and text tools; incorporate
essential digital literacy skills into programs; and harness the power of apps,
mobile devices, and social networking to deliver cutting-edge summer reading
programming and armchair outreach.
Author, Community Activist, Rich Harwood to Present President's Program
ALA President's Program
Sunday, January 22, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Join ALA President Molly Raphael for this exciting Midwinter Meeting session featuring Rich Harwood. Called "one of the great thinkers in American public life," Richard C. Harwood hasover the past twenty yearsbecome a leading national authority on improving America's communities, raising standards of political conduct and re-engaging citizens on today's most complex and controversial public issues. He is the president and founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovationa catalytic nonprofit dedicated to helping people imagine and act for the public good.
Harwood's unique voice stirs up a desire to make a difference using the turn outward approacha guide to making public life more hope-filled. He has inspired thousands of people to step forward and take action rooted in their community and stay true to themselves with easy steps designed to get even the most cynical moving. Harwood whole-heartedly believes that you can stay true to yourself and have impact.
Harwood and The Harwood Institute are committed to spreading a vision for what American society should be by putting innovative practices to use on the ground to turn that vision into a reality. In short, he has dedicated his life to helping people "make good on their urge to do good."
A dynamic public speaker, Harwood is a frequent keynote for national organizations. He is an expert contributor on national and syndicated media outlets including MSNBC, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN's Inside Politics, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Special Report with Brit Hume, C-SPAN, and many others.
He is also the author of Hope Unraveled: The people's retreat and our way back (2005), Make Hope Real: How we can accelerate change for the public good (2008) and numerous studies, articles and essays chronicling vital issues of our time. His most recent written work, Why We're Here: The Powerful Impact of Public Broadcasters When They Turn Outward, is being published and distributed in Spring 2011. You can follow him on twitter @RichHarwood and at www.facebook.com/richharwood.
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