This year Thursday morning programs are now included in Full Conference and Thursday Only registration. You can choose to attend a few shorter sessions or one of the longer 3 hour sessions. Lunch is not provided on Thursday, however an long schedule break from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm is set for both onsite and nearby dining options. The CALCON13 Kickoff Session will begin at 1:30 pm.
8:30 am - 11:30 am Session Descriptions
Engaging your Community by Sharing you Biggest Resource- People
CoPLA and the Trustee Division of CAL sponsor this exciting 3 hr workshop. Speakers & expert panels address concrete strategies for engaging your trustees, friends, volunteers and staff in the community. Hands-on workshop will turn skills and passion into trusted community asset with big impacts.
Read, Write, Play, Sign, Talk: Using Picture Books to Empower Early Literacy
We will look at top-quality picture books as a way to build the Every Child Ready to Read 6 early literacy skills through 5 simple practices. Learn criteria for selecting picture books, robust ideas for extending storytime, and strategies for providing enriching activities at your library.
What would Willy Wonka Do? School and Public Librarians Taking a Ride on the Glass Elevator
What are the unique challenges of public/school librarians? How can we forge meaningful partnerships that will help our students thrive and fulfill community needs? Attendees will gain ideas for innovative partnerships that are mutually beneficial and will result in irreplaceability.
The Danish Model: The transformation of libraries based on experiences from Aarhus, Denmark
Libraries are working hard to redefine their role in a rapidly changing society. Join Susanne Gilling of Aarhus Denmark who shares research and inspiration for reinventing libraries. Using these ideas, plan how you can make your library a vibrant center for learning, engagement, and discover.
Play Write Edit Repeat: Create stellar classes on any topic
Learn how the Community Technology Center at DPL creates their awesome classes using a process we call Iterative Lesson Design. Get your feet wet by creating some fun mini-lessons using this process, and walk away with the CTC’s top-notch lesson plan and handout templates to help you on your way!
RDA: What is it and what do you need to do with it at your library?
RDA replaces AACR2 and has been accepted by OCLC and the Library of Congress as the cataloging standard. Learn the major changes and how they affect your library and what Colorado libraries and consortia are doing to both support & train their staff and to transition to these new cataloging rules.
8:30 am - 9:45 am Session Descriptions
Do you see what I see? Visual Literacy @ the Library
What catches your eye on a poster? How does a wooden block develop narrative skills? See how visual literacy relates to early childhood education, graphic novels, and marketing. In the library, we should not only be familiar with how to understand images but how to create them! Sponsored by CLEL
Big Data: What It Means for Libraries, and What It Can Mean for Your Library
Advances in technology are driving the capture and use of data at a huge scale across industry and governments. Join us to discuss what big data is, how it affects libraries, and how Denver Public is starting to utilize 'big data' to drive service and collection initiatives.
Homeschoolers in the Public Library: Why? How? Wow!
The public library can be a homeschooling family’s best ally in their efforts to educate their children. Come discuss homeschool programs, projects and possibilities with us and see how easy and inexpensive it is to implement your ideas. Bring those ideas and let’s collaborate!
Are Your Students Learning? Assessing the One-Shot
Are your students learning? Find out through assessment! This hands-on session will introduce you to assessment best practices, student learning outcomes, Classroom Assessment Techniques, benchmarks for measuring success, and data collection. Participants will leave with an assessment plan.
Media Play: Researching and Implementing a Digital Media Lab in Your Library
Get started with a digital media lab! These spaces in libraries provide innovative technology such as 3D printers, microphones, green screens, and video cameras to help patrons create. Tips, tricks, advice, and hands-on fun will inspire you to consider starting a media lab in your library.
The Emotional Pathway to Lasting Change in Libraries
Achieving lasting change for libraries to thrive is not just a matter of good ideas. What’s often missing is an understanding of how to tap into the emotions of the people who will be making those changes. Learn how to shape the path to achieve sustainable organizational change in your libraries.
"Survivor: WWII": The Journey to an Interactive Program
Fun, educational, interactive programming is within your reach! Follow our journey as we design a program for teens and adults inspired by the book “Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand. Learn to create activities, props, and posters with on-hand resources and lots of imagination.
How To "Improv" Your Library's Customer Service!
Set the stage for exceptional customer service using techniques and activities from Improvisational Theatre. Borrowing basic rules of Improv and putting them to the test with dynamic, fun exercises will have you thinking on your feet, in the moment, and on the road to yes!
10:00 am - 11:15 am Session Descriptions
Teach them how to fish: empowering users to leverage library services and resources
Innovative librarians will share how they are using technology, customer service skills, ROI analysis, creative marketing, and an emphasis on outreach to provide services and resources to customers when and where they need it. It’s no longer the future; it’s now.
Full Throttle: Combining Forces for the 21st Century Library Service
In November 2012, an election brought the Pikes Peak Library District and the City of Manitou Springs’ Public Library together when voters passed a citizens’ initiative to have the question put on the ballot. Discover what made their process successful and how both libraries have benefitted.
Myths and Truths: What Works at Work Today
Staff engagement is down, distrust is up, and job satisfaction is the lowest in two decades. Discover what motivates employees today, why the generation issue is not what you think it is, and how myths of decades past may be getting in your way. Explore what it takes to get results in this new era.
A Dynamic Systems Model for Proactive Library Services
Library 2.0 will require the application of cutting-edge technologies combined with rigorous methods of defining and addressing "Known Information Needs". Learn how to develop robust User Profiles and perform auto-categorization of information items for these Users
A Multi-pronged Approach to Building a 21st Century Library
This program will cover PPLD's recent efforts to ready itself for the opening of a new 112,883 square foot facility focused on makerspaces, creative computing, and business incubation from the perspective of its communications department. The importance of outreach and partnerships will be featured.
Untangling Tech Training
Digital literacy training has become an important service at many public libraries. Join libraries of various sizes and means from across the state to explore what works, what doesn't, and how to provide tech training on any budget. Share your experiences, and connect
The Extended Role of Librarians as Researcher and Publisher: The hidden Collection of Regional Wool
What do steam, sheep, scientists, special collections and a scholarly communication librarian have in common? At a time when the Internet disseminates information on a world wide scale the new paradigm work of a librarian can be both as researcher and publisher in building local collections.