Thursday, March 30, 2006
1:15-2:15

Baby Can You Sign?

Sponsor: Children and Teen Services

Everyone seems to be fascinated with Baby Sign Language. Diana Higgins (left) will discuss the history and research on teaching babies to sign and Marjorie Tracy will demonstrate the techniques she employs at Tulsa Community College.

Speakers: Diana Higgins, Community Relations Manager, TSHA; Marjorie Tracy, Tulsa Community College

Of interest to public and school librarians; anyone interested in learning about Baby Sign Language and/or including it in programming.

Advocacy: Turning Adversity Into Opportunity

Sponsor: Legislative Committee

Experienced advocates at local, regional, and national levels will describe the skills and strategies you and other library supporters must use to be effective advocates who can successfully confront and convert legislators, government officials, and others who seek to cut your budget, impose censorship, or do other untold harm to libraries, librarians, and library users.

This is a 2 hour program.

Joe Raiola, currently Senior Editor of Mad Magazine, is a comedy writer, an actor, a director, a public speaker, and a radio show co-host. He graduated from Adelphi University and has spent nearly 25 years in various venues that have highlighted his social satire and his humor. He has done one-man shows, directed improvisational workshops, produced magazine spoofs, appeared in regional theaters throughout the U.S., and delivered his humorous defense of the First Amendment to professional conferences and colleges.

Jim Connor (left) is an appointed member of the Board of Trustees-Jefferson County Colorado Public Library. He was awarded the 2005 Trustee Citation by ALA at the Annual Conference in Chicago. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selected Jim to serve on their National Advisory Team for the Rural Library Sustainability Study Program. Jim holds Masters in Business Administration and Organization Management. He has a private consulting service specializing in organization management and community advocacy training. His focus is on Chamber of Commerce, civic and service, and small/rural library board development and advocacy training for public library boards.

Nancy Anthony has been a member of the Metropolitan Library Commission for 29 years. She was instrumental in convening a committee which resulted in the formation of the Library Endowment Trust in 1986. She was named an "Extraordinary Library Advocate of the 20th Century" by the Association of Library Trustees and Advocates in 2000. In April of 2004, she received the Lee B. Brawner Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing her years of service on behalf of public libraries in Oklahoma County. She holds a masters degree in statistics from Yale University and a Ph.D from the University of Oklahoma in Bio statistics and Epidemiology.

Keith Michael Fiels is the current Executive Director of the American Library Association. Fiels is the recipient of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Leadership Achievement Award and the Library Public Relations Council Award. He was named to the ALA Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA) National Advocacy Honor Roll in 2000.

Speakers: Nancy Anthony, Metropolitan Library Commission, Joe Raiola, Senior Editor, Mad Magazine, Jim Connor, Jefferson County Colorado Public Library Board of Trustees, Sally Frasier, Tulsa City-County Library Commission, Keith Michael Fiels, American Library Association

Of interest to all librarians, managers, support staff, trustees, and FOLIO members.

The program below has been canceled.

Meet the Sequoyah Authors

Sponsor: Sequoyah Administrative Team

Meet the award winning Sequoyah Book Award authors.

Speakers: TBA

Of interest to school librarians.

Serials Holdings, OCLC Ins and Outs

Sponsor: AMIGOS

OCLC is planning to migrate the Union List to Connexion this fall. They are currently moving local data records in WorldCat to the MARC21 Holdings Format. Come to this program to hear about the new interface and functionality, including creating holdings using the Connexion browser.

Kay Vincent, Continuing Education Librarian, Amigos Library Services, Dallas, TX, provides training, support, and consulting services for Amigos member libraries in cataloging and technical services. Kay came to Amigos in August 2002 from Tulsa, OK, where she served as Supervisor of Research and Analysis at Williams Communications, responsible for competitive intelligence and market research projects throughout the company and management of online research subscriptions. She also served as a special projects cataloger for Spanish and children's books at the Tulsa City-County Library. Previously, Kay served as Technical Services Librarian at the Stillwater Public Library, Stillwater, OK, where she managed the library's automated system and supervised cataloging, interlibrary loan, acquisitions, and processing. Kay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from Oklahoma State University, and Master of Arts degree in Librarianship from the University of Denver. Professional memberships include ALA and TLA.

Speaker: Kay Vincent

Of interest to public and academic librarians; technical service staff members (catalogers and paraprofessionals).

Open Meetings and Records

Sponsor: Public Libraries Division

Anyone who deals directly with open meetings and records will benefit from this session. Requirements on access to public records and the conduct of public meetings will be discussed.

Speaker: Gay Tudor

Of interest to public, academic, and school librarians; managers, and trustees.

Libraries and Literacy Today

Sponsor: Marketing and Communications Committee

How has the adult literacy movement changed in Oklahoma over time? What teaching methods, materials and resources are making a difference with adult learners today? How are libraries and literacy councils meeting the changing literacy needs of their communities? ODL's Literacy Coordinator, Leslie Gelders, provides an update to the OLA membership. Gelders assists with the Marketing and Communication Committee's Read Y'all promotional project.

Speaker: Leslie Gelders, Literacy Coordinator, Oklahoma Department of Libraries

Of interest to public, academic, and school libraries; support staff.

What I Wish I Had Known

Sponsor: Library Education Division

Members of a panel will discuss the transition process from current career to enrolling into a professional program.

Mary Kirk began her graduate education during the summer of 2003 in the OU School of Library and Information Studies, and is a recipient of the 2003/2004 American Library Association's Spectrum Scholarship. Since she had twenty years experience in libraries before beginning her MLS, you’d think she knew everything she needed ahead of time. Girl, does she have news for you!

Speakers: Mary Kirk, Sandra Ott Hamilton, Jao-Ming Huang

Of interest to managers and support staff.

Poster Session

Sponsor: University and College Division

Of interest to all.

Ban Those Bird Units
Graduates in the Northeastern State University library media program have contributed to David Loertscher’s Ban Those Bird Units Action Research Project. The projects take traditional copy and paste assignments and transform them into collaborative units that use higher level thinking skills. The study is designed to investigate teaching methods and instructional strategies. When collaborative efforts use higher level thinking skills, plagiarism is diminished, student understanding is strengthened and achievement goes up. Collaboration between teachers and the school library media specialist can build partnerships for learning.
Speaker: Barbara Ray, Ed. D, Northeastern State University

Tests and Assessment Tools
This poster session will address tests and assessment tools at the OSU Tulsa Library. OSU Tulsa Library houses a small collection of standardized tests. A chronological history will be presented. Included will be examples of different steps completed to help the students, faculty and other library personnel locate pertinent information.
Speaker: Dona Davidson, OSU-Tulsa

Information Literacy by Stealth
Electronic information has changed traditional methods of student research. The McKee Library at Oklahoma Panhandle State University has implemented an Information Literacy plan to comprehensively address the needs of students in the information age. Information Literacy is consciously being incorporated into current reference practices. Early phases of the plan are underway, and the McKee librarians are working to raise faculty awareness and push general library instruction. The poster session will demonstrate steps used to implement Information Literacy on a small campus with a small professional library staff. Learn creative techniques to engage faculty (free food), see our visual timeline with moving butterflies that tract our progress, and adapt our ideas to begin or improve an Information Literacy plan.
Speaker: Sandie Marshall, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Bring IT to Your Library
OLA/IT Roundtable poster shows examples of inexpensive technologies that libraries, of all sizes, can implement, thus enhancing their services and the experience of the end user.
Speaker: Adri Edwards-Johnson, Tulsa Community College

Access and Accessibility: Finding Ways to Provide Equal Access to Electronic Resources
As libraries increase their electronic resources, questions arise as to the best methods for providing access to patrons with various disabilities. Although technology is available to respond, it is often beyond the budgetary constraints of the library or the institution. This session will provide an overview of the current situation and explore cost-effective strategies for meeting diverse access needs.
Speaker: Peggy Kaney, Northeastern State University

Older Adults and the Public Library
This poster presentation will include statistical, social, and personal information concerning the public library use by older adults. The older adults included in this poster presentation are ages 55 and older. This is an ongoing research study and any correspondence between the author and attendees interested in additional information will be confidential.
Speaker: Darcus D. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Education

From Database to MARC Data
The Catalog Department at Oklahoma State University has been doing a retrospective cataloging project of more than 8,000 records of OSU Agricultural Extension items maintained by the University’s Archives. Previously these items had been only available through OSU’s Special Collection Dept.’s finding aid (a MS Access database). The project makes the Agricultural Extension publication information available and searchable on the library’s catalog. It involves data migration from finding aid records, addition of MARC tags, inventory checks, name authority checks and data integrity improvements to the bibliographical description on these records. Also, we will discuss workflow efficiency issues. This poster session will visit these issues and display each steps of the cataloging project and its resulting records.
Speakers: Michael Kim and Tom Steele, Oklahoma State University

Introduction of Federated Searching at OSU Library
This poster will present the process of bringing up a federated search product at the OSU library (Serials Solutions’ Central Search). We will include the criteria used to select databases for inclusion, selection of user options for searching, design options for interface screen, the testing and revision process, promotion to the users, and the impact on reference services, bibliographic instruction, and technical services.
Speakers: Beth A. Reiten, Jao-ming Huang, and Linda Taylor, Oklahoma State University