Underwritten by B&T

This program will cover the genealogical and local history resources at the Washington State Library with a focus on the resources available to patrons living all across the state of Washington.

Sponsored by the Washington State Library

A panel of veteran trustees will offer some do-able ideas for making your library board more effective. Strong boards begin with trustees who are committed to their library's mission, aware of their responsibilities to the community it serves and cognizant of the scope of their duties. This program will stimulate discussion and offer ideas for board building. Bring your questions and concerns for a lively interactive discussion.

Sponsored by WLFFTA

This workshop will describe the elements for successful displays your libraries. We will teach techniques for developing displays that grab your patron's attention and highlight your collections. Marketing is being increasingly emphasized in libraries. This seminar will help librarians and staff effectively promote their collections.

Sponsored by CAYAS

VET provides a variety of tools from which libraries can choose appropriate methods for evaluating customer satisfaction, usage and staff effectiveness. The program will describe VET content and processes, as well as the results of implementing the basic tools in three test site libraries (academic, public and special).

Sponsored by RIG

Lorri Mon will give a 30-minute overview highlighting research on reference issues presented during 2004-05 at conferences such as ALA Annual and the Virtual Reference Desk. She will also discuss the ALA Library Research Roundtable's work in supporting library-related research.

Dr. Matthew Saxton will lead a 30-minute session discussing ways that professionals can keep current with the latest reference research. A 15-minute Q & A session at the end of the presentation will provide opportunities for professionals to discuss and share ways of keeping current and facilitating communication about research.

Sponsored by RIG

The goal of this workshop is to build the skills and confidence of library staff who have opportunities to talk with the public about books and reading. The workshop will include suggestions on assisting readers, "merchandizing" the collection, and building a collection responsive to your readers.

Sponsored by WALE

Frontline librarians from academic and public libraries share their digital reference stories, both hallmarks and horrors. How have we celebrated the hallmarks and what do they tell us? What have we learned from the horrors? Stories and anecdotes offer us a way to process our experiences, helping us to understand our environment. Lessons learned can inform how we improve our services.

Sponsored by RIG

Learn how to develop good working relations with your local media as well as tips on writing news releases, briefs and public service announcements. Gain more confidence to handle challenging media interactions. This workshop will help library systems without public relations staff to work effectively with local media.

Sponsored by the PR Forum

Federated searching, open URLs and DOIs. They affect how patrons access information but what are they and how do they affect library staff? This presentation will give a basic introduction to these topics and discuss their benefits and drawbacks. Resolution servers, federated searching, open URLs, and related technologies have only been around for a few years and already are impacting how libraries provide information to their patrons.

Sponsored by TRIP

Create a win-win situation in your community! Public and school libraries serve the same K-12 students. Learn how to collaborate with your local school library to improve student achievement. Washington State Library is offering resources to enhance public and school library staff's ability to work together and improve students' information and research skills.

Sponsored by Washington State Library

If our libraries constitute the local "community of learners," then the welcome mat for Adult Literacy and ESL Program services should be in place, encouraging those low-level learners in the community to come and build their reading, writing, comprehension and conversational skills. Workshop participants will learn the history of a small California State Library-sponsored adult literacy program, the background and methods of providing services, including ideas for fundraising, and will receive materials relevant to adult literacy and ESL programming.

Sponsored by OLE

Are libraries still relevant in the era of the Web, Google, Yahoo! and Amazon? The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition identifies and describes issues and trends that are impacting and will impact libraries, museums and archives. It examines the social, political, economic, technological and educational landscapes in which libraries and allied organizations operate. This program is an overview and high-level summary of the environmental scan.

Sponsored by OCLC

This session will provide attendees with some tips, techniques and resources for music reference in a public library. Bob will also relate some of his experience with the ways music reference is being done in the new Seattle Public Library building. Their new reference model includes a good deal of subject cross-training and demonstrates the relevance of these skills to a diverse population of librarians.

Sponsored by RIG

This is a forum to learn about and discuss the rich and varied history of libraries and unions in Washington state and how labor-related legislation impacts or working lives.

Sponsored by IGLU

What's the best way to determine if online learning is right for you? This workshop will be an exercise to help participants discover their learning style, a checklist for what to look for in evaluating an e-learning opportunity, and demonstrations of various online classes.

Sponsored by TRIP and WALT
Underwritten by Bibliographical Center for Research

How can libraries make it easier and more convenient for users to not only find what they need, but be pleased by serendipitous opportunities to pick up the unexpected? The focus of the program will be on best practices for collection arrangement, adjacencies, display and signage, tailored to different collection sizes. In addition, a process inclusive of the varying perspectives of branch and collection staff, and library patrons will be examined, as well as methods to train library staff to support merchandising efforts.

Sponsored by the 2005 Conference

This program will give library staff an opportunity to discuss how state participation in the collaborative program is working for them. Discussion items will include: What's working, what's not; suggestions for changes, additions, collaboration; and WSL support, statistics/outcome and surveys.

Sponsored by CAYAS, Washington State Library

This session will feature presentations on the Bing Crosby Collection, the Jesuit Oregon Province Archives and the Hanford Health Information Archives, all housed at the Gonzaga University Library. We will also present and discuss a case study digitization project.

Sponsored by CDIG

Join our vendors in the exhibit hall for a drink and conversation. A no-host bar will be available.

Underwritten by BWI