AASL at the ALA Annual Conference
Programs and Events
AASL will present a variety of programs and events at the ALA 2008 Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Click the title to view a program/event's details.
Friday, June 27
Saturday, June 28
Sunday, June 29
Monday, June 30
Friday, June 27, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Independent School Section (ISS) School Tour
Offsite
ISS School Tour, including boxed lunch.
Tickets: $50
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Saturday, June 28, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Maximizing Your Impact: Classroom Collaboration for Teaching Information Literacy and Reading Comprehension Skills
Hilton Anaheim Pacific BR C
When classroom teachers and school library media specialists coteach information literacy skills and reading comprehension strategies, they help students succeed by lowering the student-to-teacher ratio, providing models for thinking aloud and teamwork, sharing responsibility for monitoring practice and assessing processes and products. Opportunities for increased student achievement, job-embedded professional development for educators, and fun (!) can benefit the entire learning community. Teacher-librarians from across the country who field tested lessons from Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact (ALA Editions, 2007) will share their collaborations with classroom teacher colleagues. Support for this presentation can be found at: http://storytrail.com/Impact/index.htm
Speakers: Judi Moreillon, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science; Debra LaPlante, Teacher Librarian, Carol G Peck Elementary School
Saturday, June 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
President's Program: Intellectual Freedom: A Core Value
Anaheim Convention Center Ballroom E
Join Susan Patron and a panel of experts as they discuss topics on intellectual freedom. Susan Patron, 2007 Newbery Award winner, has spent most of her life at the Los Angeles Public Library, both as a child and an adult. She served as their Juvenile Materials Collection Development Manager until her retirement in March 2007. She was a Senior Librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library, where she began in 1972. Patron reviews children’s literature, has taught and lectured on the subject, and has served on boards and committees in the field. Patron will be followed by a reaction panel which includes an elementary school librarian, a secondary school librarian, and an author/member of “AS IF! Authors Support Intellectual Freedom.”
Speaker: Susan Patron, Author, 2007 Newbery Award
Discussion Panel: Catherine Beyers, Lacrosse, WI; Cassandra Barnett, Fayetteville, AR; David Levithan, AAP Freedom to Read Committee
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Saturday, June 28, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Presidential $1 Coins for the Library: Lesson Plans, Materials, and Activities for Directed and Independent Learning Exercises in Library Media Centers
Anaheim Marriott Platinum 7/8
This workshop will enable librarians to: instruct students on the uses of library media center resources to increase knowledge of the Presidential $1 Coin Program; teach students to utilize internet based applications including H.I.P. Pocket Change website in directed and self-taught settings; identify the components and free resources available through the US Mint's education initiative as they relate to the AASL strategic goals of professional development and literacy standards.
Speakers: United States Mint Education Coordinator; United States Mint; Department of Treasury
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Saturday, June 28 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sisters' Act: Learn How to Make Your Library Activities Award Winning and Generate Enthusiastic Readers
Anaheim Convention Center 201 A/B
Learn how to make your library activities award winning and generate enthusiastic readers. Come along with us and share fun lessons, worksheets, costumes and story time activities. This sister team has written four books that can be used as resources with ready to use worksheets and easy to follow lesson plans. During our program attendees will participate in a sample information literacy based lesson writing activity and receive practical ideas that will generate enthusiastic readers. Our session will be packed full and excitement is our motto.
Speakers: Patricia A. Messner, Media Specialist, Lebanon City Schools; Brenda S. Copeland, Elementary Librarian and Author, Palmyra Area School District
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Sunday, June 29, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Library Research with Emergent Readers: Meeting the Standards
Anaheim Marriott Salon A-D
This program will give practical guidance to librarians and teachers wishing to conduct library research with emergent readers, specifically focusing on K-2 students. Best instructional strategies as identified through Bloom’s Taxonomy, Marzano’s highly effective instructional strategies, and Loertscher’s frameworks for effective research projects will be discussed. The presentation will provide step-by-step teacher collaboration tips and planning checklists. All sample projects discussed will be integrated with national curriculum standards. The projects will be tied to widely available student resources.articipants will be provided time and guidance for brainstorming and developing ideas for library research projects to use in their schools or classrooms. There will be an opportunity to discuss in small groups how they can apply the presented information and approach teachers for collaboration. The program presenters are two practicing Texas elementary school librarians, who have developed the included library research projects over the last 10 years.
Speakers: Christa Harker, Librarian; James Bowie Elementary; Dorette Putonti, Librarian, Hamilton Park Pacesetter Magnet
Connecting Students and Teachers to the Library through Reading Incentive Programs
Anaheim Marriott Salon F
Participants will: become familiar with different reading incentive programs for primary and intermediate readers; understand how these reading incentive programs connect language arts standards and library skills; know different ways to organize and administer the program by soliciting help from volunteers; learn how to support teachers to run these programs as part of their independent reading program by providing reading lists on the school's web site.
Speaker: Monika Schröder, Elementary School Librarian, American Embassy School, India
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Sunday, June 29, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Working with Struggling ESL/ELL and “At-Risk” Reading Populations
Media Specialists and Teachers will present and discuss their strategies and findings on how utilizing a specific trade book format helped significantly improve reading scores and overall enjoyment of reading for struggling, ESL/ELL, reluctant and “at-risk” readers. After attending this session participants will be able to: develop a roadmap for collaboration to help struggling readers etc make gains both in overall reading comprehension and in their independent reading; understand how a larger print format improves reader confidence/lowers readers anxiety level, letter and word recognition, reading comprehension and satisfaction when reading; incorporate best practices for format into classroom, reading room and library.
Speakers: Kara Kugelmeyer; Helen Cox, Media Specialist, Hamilton Middle School; Wesley Yandell, Special Education Teacher, Sunnyside United School District; Anne Juola-Rushton, Reading Coach, Blackburn Elementary School
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Sunday, June 29, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Winning Over Boy Readers with California’s Teacher of the Year: Effective Literacy Improvement Strategies That Really Work with Today’s Young Students
Hilton Anaheim California Pavillion A
Engage reluctant boy readers by learning how to use proven, effective strategies to inspire young males to embrace books, improve their literacy competencies, raise their test scores and build a lifelong bridge to reading. Alan Sitomer, California’s Teacher of the Year award winner, will empower attendees in this interactive program to really reach today’s boys with books. Methodologies designed to excite disengaged young male students about the world of reading, including fun activities and immediately usable material, will be provided.
Speaker: Alan Sitomer, Library Media Specialist, Lynwood High School
Independent School Section (ISS) Tea
Sheraton Park Hotel Tiffany Terrace and Patio
Tickets: $29
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Sunday, June 29, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About
Anaheim Convention Center 204 A
Twenty-five to thirty University Press titles will be presented by PLA and AASL member librarians from the University Presses Book Selection Committee. Titles will represent those featured in the 2008 University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, an annual collection development bibliography produced by the AAUP in coordination with the American University Presses Book Selection Committee of the ALA. Book subjects discussed by a panel will include art, literature, history, multicultural studies, reference, and memoirs. A raffle of all books presented will be drawn at the end of the program.
Speakers: Rachel Weiss-Feldman, Marketing Manager, AAUP; Hilary Albert, Reference Librarian, Mahopac Public Library; Sabrina Carnesi, Library Media Specialist, Cittenden Middle School; Tina Maria Beaird, Reference Librarian, Plainfield Public Library; Paul Gregorio, Portland Community College; Janet Hilbun, Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University; Judi Repman, Professor, Georgia Southern University
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Fish4Info: A Next Generation Library Portal
Hyatt Regency Orange County Grand E/F
This program will present the next generation school library portal created as an open source project by the School Library System of Genesee Valley BOCES. Participants will learn how Fish4Info.org provides a next generation catalog, book reviews, tagging, social bookmarking, and pathfinders to libraries and their students. The program will also cover the School Library 2.0 concepts behind the need for a next generation portal as well as the benefits of providing an online, 24/7 school library experience. Participants will leave the workshop with the portal software and installation directions. Participants will be able to: identify the elements of school library 2.0 as applied to a school library portal; describe the reasons for moving towards a next generation library portal; define the environment of an online library experience; list the free and open source parts involved in the Fish4Info package; and install and run their own version of the Fish4Info portal software.
Speakers: Christopher Harris, Coordinator School Library System, Genesee Valley BOCES; Andrew Austin, Library Technology Specialist, Genesee Valley BOCES; Brian Mayer, Library Technology specialist, Genesee Valley BOCES
Ethics in the Age of Web 2.0
Disneyland Hotel Adventure Room
The ALA Code of Ethics for Librarians has served school and youth services librarians for almost 70 years. How has it supported the intellectual freedom of school and public library youthful users? Does it continue to offer us the guidance we need to face the new challenges and new roles we face in a socially networked, rapidly changing digital world? What needs updating? What’s missing? What has aged well? A panel of experts, library educators, and practitioners will discuss ethical issues associated with social technologies, privacy, intellectual property, censorship, access to information, leveling and labeling a collection, and selection. Participants will gain: a renewed understanding of the ALA Code of Ethics and its application to current school and public library youth situations; knowledge of the connection between the Code of Ethics and protecting the intellectual freedom of minors using libraries; and ideas about the current usefulness of the Code of Ethics and revisions which may need to be made.
Speakers: Debbie Abilock, Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Quest; Helen Adams, Retired; Terry Young, School Library Media Specialist, Parish Public School System; Rebecca Butler, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University; Candace Morgan, Chair, Committee on Professional Ethics; Nancy Kranich, Civil Librarian; Frances Jacobson Harris, Librarian, University Laboratory High School; Christine Sherman, Library Media Specialist, Thompson Middle School
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Monday, June 30, 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Research Fuels the Author's Fire
Anaheim Convention Center 304 A/B
Discover how traveling to Tibet, standing in the shoes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, fishing in Trinidad, and exploring storm sewers lead to great books. Four authors/illustrators of books for young readers will present a brief summary of the research that fuels the characters, plot, and events in their books — both fiction and non-fiction. Noted writers/illustrators will share information that will help to create and foster excitement for reading and a curiosity about new topics. Sharron McElmeel, a children’s and young adult literature specialist will contribute connections and myriad of implications for classroom/library collaboration, and will moderate a Q&A session with the authors/illustrators.
Speakers: Jacqueline Briggs Martin, Author, 1999 Caldecott Award-winning Snowflake Bentley; Carol Gorman, Instructor and Author, Coe College; Tanya Lee Stone, Author, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote; Colin Bootman, Author and Illustrator, A Fish for a Grand Lady; Sharron McElmeel, M.A., YA Literature Specialist and Author, University of Wisconsin – Stout
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On-Line and On-Target: Using Distance Education in School Library Media Education Programs
Disneyland Hotel Magic Kingdom 2
As more and more library education programs turn to distance learning environments, this program offers three perspectives on dealing with this kind of educational tool; those of a program director, an educator, and a student. By attending this program, participants will learn: 1. how program coordinators, educators, and students experience a distance education program; 2. considerations for developing distance education programs; 3. vonsiderations for developing online courses; and 4. considerations for engaging and evaluating distance students.
Speakers: Allison G. Kaplan, Associate Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin SLIS; Daniel Fuller, Assistant Professor, San Jose University; Jennifer Maede, MLS Graduate Student, University of Southern Mississippi; Susan Evans, Essential Education Enterprises
Good Enough for Prime Time 2008: How to Win an AASL Award
Anaheim Convention Center 204 A
Learn from winners how to get your program recognized, get a scholarship, send a new library media specialist to a conference, or honor a great administrator. Here's the inside scoop on how to win an AASL award. Listen to previous winners, ask questions, and get ready to be honored next year.
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Monday, June 30, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Using and Writing Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
Anaheim Marriott Salon G-K
In this program, participants will: understand the benefits of readers theatre; learn how to prepare, manage, and implement a readers theatre program; learn how to develop scripts through modeling, samples, and a highly effective and active collaborative exercise in script writing.
Speaker: Suzanne I. Barchers, Ed.D., Author, Story Cart
Visual Literacy Ain't Just Watching Ads
Anaheim Marriott Marquis Northeast
Decoders, fluent readers and finally expressive readers and writers--these stages apply to visual literacy as well as to reading print. In an image-drenched world, we'll look at the rhetorical situation of an image, examine some signs and symbols, and see how point of view is created by interaction of the reader, audience, and medium. We'll consider some emerging issues and teaching strategies for various types of images.
Speaker: Debbie Abilock, Consultant/Co-Founder, NoodleTools, Inc.
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Monday, June 30, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Awards Luncheon
Anaheim Marriott Marquis South
Celebrate the accomplishments of your colleagues and enjoy lunch at the presentation of the 2008 AASL Awards, including the prestigious National School Library Media Program of the Year Award. Don't miss guest speaker Wendy Mass. Her 2003 novel, A Mango-Shaped Space, won the first ALA Schneider Family Book Award and she hasn’t looked back since. Her most recent novel for teens is Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall. Her next book, Every Soul a Star will be published in Fall 2008. Immediately following the Awards Luncheon is the AASL President's Reception providing the opportunity to meet and greet the AASL President, Board Members and other member leaders.
Tickets: $49
Monday, June 30, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Handmade Tales: Stories to Make and Take
Anaheim Marriott Salon G-K
Participants will learn innovative ways to jazz up their storytelling sessions. Using towels, bandanas, napkins, paper and string, participants will follow along, learning the stories and manipulating the props. An illustrated handout is provided. Joseph Had an Overcoat is a clever cut-and-tell. The Stubborn Turnip is an innovative string story that makes audiences gasp. The Ugly Duckling is adapted using bath towels. Bandana Man is a show-stopping rendition of Gingerbread Man. The stories are also filled with playful audience participation. The aural and visual aspects of Handmade Tales make it a great program for students of all learning abilities.
Speaker: Dianne de Las Casas, Author and award-winning storytell, Story Connection
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