Thursday, March 30, 2006
2:30 - 3:30

Not Quite YA Sequoyah

Sponsor: Sequoyah Administrative Team

YA Sequoyah committee members will highlight favorite titles from their reading list explaining why these books almost made it to the Sequoyah Masterlist – but not quite.

Speakers: Members of the Sequoyah Young Adult reading team.

Of interest to public and school librarians.

Oklahoma and OLA Centennial News and Views

Sponsor: Centennial Ad Hoc Committee

OLA’s Centennial Ad Hoc Committee will present the results of several Centennial projects: a Bibliography of Oklahoma Resources, the 46 Highly Recommended Oklahoma Resources, the Centennial Toolkit, OLA's 100 Years of Library Legends, and the Focus on Libraries. This program will be an informative and interesting review of the work of the committee as they have explored both the history of Oklahoma and OLA.

Speakers: Centennial Ad Hoc Committee Members

Of interest to all.

Putting Services in Tech Services

Sponsor: Technical Services Roundtable

This program will discuss the ways in which the Tulsa City-County Library (TCCL) has created a Technical Services department that is committed to providing excellent internal customer service. It will discuss the creation of an environment that encourages excellent customer service, how TCCL provided training to support that level of service, and several of the tools used to provide excellent service to public services staff. The results of this focus on customer service have been fantastic - TCCL received raves from internal customers and found more efficient ways of handling questions and problems. Sarah Simpson is the Catalog Librarian Supervisor at the Tulsa City-County Library. She has participated in the development of an internal customer service program and provided customer service training to Technical Services staff.

Speaker: Sarah Simpson

Of interest to all.

Conflict Resolution

Sponsor: Supervisors, Managers, and Administrators Roundtable

Bobbi Dobbs, owner of Positive Performance Group, using a multi-dimensional approach, specializes in interactive training sessions where participants gain not only information, but skills they can put to use immediately.

Bobbi understands and meets the needs of businesses of all types.

Speaker: Bobbi Dobbs, owner of Positive Performance Group

Of interest to public and academic librarians; managers.

Taming the Paper Tiger

Sponsor: Oklahoma Association of School Library Media Specialists/Public Libraries Division

Tired of sorting through piles of papers looking for that one piece of paper you need? Are there mountains of catalogs, reports, lists, files, and other important papers covering your desk? Practical strategies are shared to help you organize your workspace, control, contain, and finally win the Paper Chase! Janet will also demonstrate ways to organize your electronic files on your computer as well as paper items.

Janet is Library Media Specialist with National Board Certification at Glenwood Elementary School in Enid, Oklahoma. She has served as past Chair of OASLMS and is a past winner of the OASLMS Technology Award.

Speaker: Janet Coontz, Enid Public Schools LMS

Of interest to all.

Oklahoma Authors’ Panel, Chapter 1

Sponsor: Public Libraries Division

Meet some of Oklahoma’s finest authors, who will discuss their works and take questions from the audience. Friday’s Chapter 2 features different speakers.

Jodie Larsen is a chameleon of popular fiction. Writing under several pseudonyms, Jodie’s novels cross genres and appeal to a wide variety of readers. She has published the thrillers Deadly Company, Deadly Silence, Deadly Rescue, and Sisters and Secrets. She is also the author of Render Safe by Jackie Nida, and The Passage by Alex Lawrence. In her spare time Jodie encourages both children and adults to explore their writing talents by working with schools and libraries. A graduate of Oklahoma State University, she resides in Tulsa.

Will Thomas’s debut novel, Some Danger Involved, won the 2005 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction. His second book has been published, a third is completed, and he is currently working on a fourth. Thomas is a librarian for the Tulsa City-County Library System. His writings have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and other publications. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with his family.

Anna Myers is the author of thirteen books of historical fiction for young people. Awards for her books include two Oklahoma Book Awards, Parents' Choice Awards, American Library Association Quick Pick, Independent Publishers' Award, New York Public Library's Books to Read and Share, American Bookseller's Pick of the List, Bank Street College Children's Books of the Year, New York Public Library's Books for the Teenage, and inclusion on children's choice lists for more than 20 states.

Dayna Dunbar, author of The Saints and Sinners of Okay County, the 2006 Oklahoma Reads Oklahoma book, is a native Oklahoman who currently makes her home in Los Angeles. Dunbar has written screenplays and was part of the production team for the 1996 film William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Communications from the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico and a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in California.

Speakers: Jodie Larsen, Will Thomas, Anna Myers, Dayna Dunbar

Of interest to public librarians, managers, and support staff.