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7:00am CDT

Hotel Shuttles: See description or check with hotel for actual times. Signing up in Sched does not reserve spot on shuttle. TBA

7:30am CDT

Breakfast / Registration Leonard Center Fieldhouse

9:00am CDT

Keynote Speaker: Sarah T. Roberts Leonard Center Fieldhouse

10:30am CDT

Capturing Graduate Research: Creation of the Graduate Online Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato Library Harmon RoomHeidi Southworth FOLIO: the What and How of the New Library Services Platform Leonard Center Hall Of Fame RoomChristopher Holly • Sharon Wiles-Young HathiTrust: Ten Years, 16 Million Volumes, and the Road Ahead Olin-Rice 350John Butler Just Add Water! Rebuilding a Library Website in One Month Flat Olin-Rice 250Stewart Van Cleeve Minnesota’s Digitized Legal Archives Olin-Rice 150Elizabeth Lincoln • Erica Nutzman People Power: Strengthening Libraries through Community Partnerships Weyerhaeuser BoardroomHonna Veerkamp Slaying the Social Media Dragon: A Quest to Connect with Students JBD Lecture HallHeather Howard • Sarah Huber The Next Generation of Library Orientation. Hands-on Virtual and Immersive Reality, 360 Degree Movies Olin-Rice 100Mark Gill • Plamen Miltenoff The Wild and Unwieldy World of Retractions Neill 226Caitlin Bakker • Amy Riegelman

11:00am CDT

Meditation Chair Demo Library 2nd Level

11:30am CDT

Lunch Leonard Center Fieldhouse Explore the Library's 2nd Level Library 2nd LevelAngie Faiks

11:45am CDT

Birds of a Feather Lunch Conversation for MLPP Pressbooks COI TBA

12:15pm CDT

Check out the Idea Lab Library 2nd Level

1:00pm CDT

A (Free) Library Tech Support Ticketing System Olin-Rice 150Seth Erickson CANCELED - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Decision-making by Product Owners Instead of Teams TBALauren Ajamie Cloud-based IT for Public Libraries: Great Solutions from Soup to Nuts! Library Harmon RoomMike Dargan Digital Preservation Day at the Library: A How-To Guide Olin-Rice 250Lizzy Baus • Sara Ring Flipping and Assessing Information Literacy Weyerhaeuser BoardroomMary Beth Sancomb-Moran Story Spaces: Engagement Practices for the 21st Century Library Olin-Rice 350Joe Lambert The Library as Publisher: A Liberal Arts College Experience Leonard Center Hall Of Fame RoomTerri Fishel • Ron Joslin Watson Beyond Jeopardy!: A Look Inside Next-generation Search Engines JBD Lecture HallJay Achenbach • Brooke Roegge Wikipedia Works! : Aligning Wikipedia Engagement with Library Initiatives Neill 226Rachel Wexelbaum

2:15pm CDT

Building Online Exhibits with the Islandora Digital Asset Management Solution Olin-Rice 150Alex Kent Capturing the Moment (and the White Board): Enhancing Whiteboard Use for Language Classes Olin-Rice 100Wessam Elmeligi • Fritz Vandover, Ph.D. From Beast to Beauty: How We Tamed and Trimmed Our Wild Subject Research Guides Olin-Rice 250Audrey Butlett • Heather Westerlund From College to High School - Observations from Crossing the K-12/Higher Ed Divide JBD Lecture HallAlison Sommer Leveraging Public Knowledge Project's Open Conference Systems for Digital Scholarship Neill 226Matthew Treskon Tech in the Suburbs Leonard Center Hall Of Fame RoomMary Wussow The JCAE DB: Journal Collection Analysis and Evaluation for Outreach and More! Library Harmon RoomEvan Rusch Two Librarians, in the Hallway, with the Laptop: Find the Clue to Harnessing Your Podcasting Mojo Olin-Rice 350Erica Younglove Your GPS for Project Management: Know Where You've Been, Where You Are, and Where You're Going and Bypass Roadblocks Along the Way! Weyerhaeuser BoardroomRachael Cohen

3:30pm CDT

A Bigger Boat: Data Visualization Lessons from the Movies Weyerhaeuser BoardroomMark Vaillancourt • Trish Vaillancourt AISOS: A Reproducible Model for Institution-Wide 3D Imaging Neill 226Colin McFadden • Samantha Thi Porter Automatic Renewal: Using DIY Technology to Create an Improved Patron Experience at Hennepin County Library Olin-Rice 150Phil Feilmeyer • Samantha Jekot-Graham Cool Tools: Free Apps for Organizing and Collaborating in Your Library JBD Lecture HallSunshine Carter • John Halvorson • Adam Johnson • Chris Koehler • Amy Nixon • Yumiko Toyota-Kindler • Beth Wolszon Let's Encrypt! Library Harmon RoomRod Bruce • Alex Lazar Librarian at Large: How the Desire to Meet Students Where They Are Inspired a Social Media Outreach Campaign, Engaging Information Literacy Assessment, and Framework Instruction Olin-Rice 250Amanda Bauer • Megan Peterson Library as Publisher: OpenSUNY Textbooks Leonard Center Hall Of Fame RoomLeah Root Minnesota Digital Library: Today and Tomorrow Olin-Rice 350Greta Bahnemann • Molly Huber

4:45pm CDT

Hotel Shuttles: See description or check with hotel for actual times. Signing up in Sched does not reserve spot on shuttle. TBA

5:30pm CDT

ARLD Happy Hour Rabbit Hole at Midtown Global Market

7:00pm CDT

Board Game Night Chicago Room, Sheraton Midtown HotelJennifer DeJonghe