8:00 - 9:00 REGISTRATION - Durick Library

8:00 - 9:00 COFFEE & PASTRIES - McCarthy Arts Center

9:00 - 10:30 The Library of the Future: the Indispensable Library- McCarthy Arts Center
Norma Blake and Peggy Cadigan - New Jersey State Library  

Norma Blake and Peggy Cadigan of the New Jersey State Library offer their view the future of the library. The current economic climate requires libraries to make themselves indispensable to their communities. What does it take to be indispensable? Talented, innovative and inventive librarians, these two include photos and examples of innovative library policy and practice to change and rejuvenate the libraries we are managing. Come ready to be inspired, ready to learn, and ready for the insights that will define the library in years to come.

Concurrent Sessions 1

10:40 - 11:40

Green Libraries
Alex Gutelius - Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library 

The Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library is a LEED certified library that saves thousands of dollars in energy costs annually and provides a healthy indoor environment for patrons and staff. Learn about the choices that were made throughout the planning and building process and the impact being “green” has had on the operation of the library.

A Conversation with Norma & Peggy
Norma Blake & Peggy Cadigan

Want to think and discuss more about the library of the future? Meet Norma Blake and Peggy Cadigan face to face for an informal discussion of their ideas and insights on public libraries. Norma Blake, New Jersey State Librarian, is the 2008 Library Journal Librarian of the Year. Peggy Cadigan, NJ Associate State Librarian for Strategic Alliances, is a 2010 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker.” .

Switching to KOHA: Brave or Stupid?
A panel with Deborah Kahn - Warren Public Library, Richard Pritsky - Carpenter Carse Library and a Representative from ByWater Solutions

Reality Is What You Make It: Collection Management in Two Vermont Academics
Ben Johnson & Laura Crain

This session focuses on collection development from the differing vantage points of the presenters: on the front lines of delivering library services in a heavily experiential college learning environment and from the collection management/tech services division of a liberal arts college. Laura examines evidence-based content decisions: analyzing usage statistics, allocation formulas that shift a significant portion of book purchasing toward high circulation subject areas, decisions tied to cost-per-use, new subscriptions based on evidence of “expected use”. Ben discusses what can rationally be accomplished with a small staff, and presents provocative questions and propositions intended to elicit responses and discussion from attendees. Does collection development consist of more or less successful attempts to replicate the experience of having an unlimited Amazon gift card for every user?

11:45 - 12:45 LUNCH in Green Mountain Dining Hall - Alliot Student Center

Concurrent Sessions 2

12:50 - 1:50

Red Clover, Dorothy Canfield Fisher & Green Mountain Book Award Extravaganza
Grace Greene - Vermont Department of Libraries Consultant, Sally Anderson - Mother Goose Programs & Hannah Peacock - Burnham Memorial Library.

Get Your Library on Facebook & Twitter in Under an Hour
Stephanie Chase - Stowe Free Library and Mara Siegel - Vermont Department of Libraries

The title says it all: now, let's make it happen. Come prepared with a laptop (if you can), the URL for your library's blog, and all you have learned from Vermont's 23 Things, and we'll get your library on Facebook and Twitter with time to spare for questions.

Rapid Reviews
Rapid Reviews with Amy Howlett - Vermont Department of Libraries, Ernie Drown & Susan Guilmette - Barton Public Library.

Three reviewers, Amy Howlett, Ernie Drown and Susan Guilmette, review the best of the non-bestseller adult fiction and nonfiction from the past year. It’s a quirky list, but we guarantee you’ll go home with something you want to read.

Best References and Tools for Chat Reference Services
Janette Shafer

Concurrent Sessions 3

2:00 - 3:00

Green Libraries
Alex Gutelius - Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library

The Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library is a LEED certified library that saves thousands of dollars in energy costs annually and provides a healthy indoor environment for patrons and staff. Learn about the choices that were made throughout the planning and building process and the impact being “green” has had on the operation of the library.

Library Grants: Ideas, Tips & Tricks
Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup - Vermont Community Foundation, Linda Wells - Craftsbury Public Library & Sam Maskell - Rockingham Free Public Library

Organizational Culture
Lawrence Webster - Webster Consulting Services

Do you have a sticky problem in your library; one that just won't go away? Repeated internal communications issues? Problems with community support? Some of these common difficulties can be overcome by using the concepts of organizational culture to examine your library: What are the underlying values and attitudes that inform workplace atmosphere and customer service? What are the unwritten rules, customs, beliefs, and expectations? How do you acculturate new employees? Deal with rebels? Recognize culture clashes? Can a "culture" be changed? How?
This interactive workshop will introduce concepts to give library staff new ways of understanding problems -- and solving them. There will be a brief presentation and time for questions and discussion. The workshop is designed to be useful to public and academic libraries of all sizes.

Ditching Dewey?
Lorraine Lanius - Head of Technical Services Vermont Department of Libraries and TBA from a VT bookstore



3:10 - 4:15 End Note with David Macaulay - McCarthy Arts Center

5:00 Kick back at McKee's Pub & Grill