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Preliminary Daily Schedule

Program/Discussion Group/Committee Meeting Timeslots are approximate - the majority of events fall in these slots, but some discussion groups or committee meetings will start or end outside these times. Other events will occur that are outside of these timeslots as well.

Preconferences, banquets and some evening socials require additional registration.

Thursday, June 21  
8:00 am - 05:00 pm Preconferences (additional reg req'd)
Friday, June 22  
8:00 am - 05:00 pm Preconferences (additional reg req'd)
7:30 pm - 11:00 pm World Premiere of "The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society"
   
Saturday, June 23  
8:00-10:00 am Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
8:30-10:00 am Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Ken Burns
8:45 am Exhibit Ribbon-Cutting
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Khaled Hosseini
1:30 - 3:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
1:30 - 3:30 pm Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring David Baldacci
4:00 - 5:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
5:30 - 7:00 pm Opening General Session Featuring Bill Bradley
8:00 - 11:00 pm ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Event (reg req'd)
   
Sunday, June 24  
8:00 am - 10:00 am Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
8:30 am - 10:00 am Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Nancy Pearl
10:30 am - 11:30 am Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Anthony Romero
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
1:30 - 3:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
3:30 - 5:30 pm ALA President's Program featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Third Annual Bookcart Drill Team World Championship
4:30 pm - 12:00 am Evening Socials (times vary, some reg req'd)
   
Monday, June 25  
8:00 am - 10:00 am Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
8:00 am - 10:00 am ALSC Charlemae Rollins President's Program, part of the Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Marian Wright Edelman
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
10:30 am - 12:00 pm American Libraries presents Julie Andrews
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Auditorium Speaker Series Featuring Irshad Manji
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Programs/Discussion Groups/Committee Meetings
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PLA President's Program and Awards Presentation, part of the Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Elizabeth Edwards
 
Tuesday, June 26
8:00 - 9:00 am Closing Session featuring Garrison Keillor
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm ALA Awards Ceremony
7:00 pm - 12:00 am Inaugural Banquet

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