Trustees attend PLA Conference with a unique leadership perspective. The PLA Conference Program Subcommittee has highlighted a number of programs at PLA 2016 that will be relevant and beneficial to trustees. To search programming by keyword, track, date, or presenter, visit the Programs page.
Broadcast
Get Outside the Lines: Reintroducing Your Library to the Community
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
What’s Your Elevator Speech? The Message Matters
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Challenge
De-identifying Patron Data to Balance Privacy and Insight
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Don’t Worry… We’re Only Going to Change Everything
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
How Two Libraries Quit Summer Reading and You Can, Too
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
A Different Way of Doing Business: Cross-Functional Strategic Initiative Teams
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Changing Landscape of Library Privacy
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Collaborate
Disasters Bring Out the Best in Us: Providing Community Support When it is Needed Most
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Extraordinarily Engaged: How Three Libraries are Transforming Their Communities
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
It Happened in My Town: Collaboration in Crisis
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Teen Asset Mapping: A Community Development Approach to Teen Services Expansion
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Connect, Crowdsource, and Kickstart: Make Dream Projects a Reality
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Better Together: Civic Engagement and Civic Dialogues
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
So a Planner and a Librarian Walk Into a Bar…
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Extraordinary at Any Size: Tips for Keeping Your Library Relevant and Your Community Engaged for Every Size Library
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Imagine
Bubbler @ Madison Public Libraries: A System-Wide Approach to Learning through Making
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Libraries = Education: Reclaiming Our Purpose for the 21st Century
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Aspen Institute’s “Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries” in Action
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
The Intentional Makerspace: A New Framework for Making and Learning in Libraries
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Storytime Manifesto: Early Literacy Awareness and Advocacy
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Inside the 2015 New Landmark Libraries
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Building Digitally Inclusive Communities
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Invent
Tech Assistance for Cutting Edge Communities
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
The Visible Library: Exposing Collections Through Linked Data
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Taking it Personally: Creating Human Connection in a Virtual World
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Design Thinking at Your Library: Try Try Again
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Lead
Developing Truly Effective Performance Evaluations
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Creating a New Support Organization: Lessons Learned that You Can Apply, Too
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Tame Your Digital Strategy
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Organizational Health: Capitalizing on Your Most Important Asset
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Never Leave Internal Communications to Chance
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Hospitality: The Essential Ingredient
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Building a Better Board to Support Your Library
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
One Community, Many Faces: Building a Diverse Staff
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Library Board Wars and Power Plays: How to Resolve, Avoid, and Do it Right!
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Put Learning First: Developing a Staff Learning Philosophy
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Plan
The Power of Performance: The PLA Performance Measures Initiative
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Immigration Reform: Is Your Library Ready?
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Power of Performance 2: Project Outcome Enrollment Primer
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Data Driven Collections: Right-Sizing Library Collections
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Making Waves with Research: Lessons from RIPL Participants
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Developing a Holistic Collection Development Policy
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Building for the Future Today: Broadband Planning
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The One-Page Strategic Plan: Is It Real? Is It Right For You?
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
E-rate Evolution: Getting from Policy to Practical
Friday, April 8, 2016, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Designing for Patron Behaviors
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Stress Tests: Conducting Strategic Analyses of Services and Programs to Guide Libraries of the Future
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Blowing Up The PLDS: Measuring Impact
Saturday, April 9, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Play
Everything is Awesome! Reimagining Library UX
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Play Your Way to an Engaged Staff
Friday, April 8, 2016, 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM
Think Outside the Box by Going Inside the Box
Friday, April 8, 2016, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM