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Welcome to the 2024 joint conference for the Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association!
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Hiroko Hashitani

University of Utah, Marriott Library
ILL Supervisor/Technology & Lending Coordinator
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Wednesday, May 8
 

7:30am MDT

Registration Upper Mezzanine

8:45am MDT

Quiet Space 257 B

9:00am MDT

Library Ethics: What Would You Do? (half day) 255 AGail Santy • Patty Collins

10:50am MDT

Morning Break Upper Mezzanine

12:00pm MDT

Lunch On Your Own Your Choice

1:30pm MDT

Empowering Your Staff: Creating a Scaffolded System for Developing Your In-House Leaders (half day) 255 DEileen Wright • Judi Boyce

3:20pm MDT

Afternoon Break Upper Mezzanine

5:00pm MDT

Wednesday Evening Social: Dinner at Squatters Squatters Pub Brewery
 
Thursday, May 9
 

7:30am MDT

Early Morning Coffee Service Upper Mezzanine Registration Upper Mezzanine

8:00am MDT

Silent Auction Exhibit Hall 2

8:15am MDT

Quiet Space 257 B

8:30am MDT

Presidents' Address & Keynote - Sara Jones 255 B/CPatrick Hoecherl • Sara Jones • Amadee Ricketts

9:40am MDT

Morning Break & Exhibit Hall Opens Exhibit Hall 2 Poster Sessions Lower MezzanineCharlene Brewer • Julia Curtis • Deanna Duffy • Adam Griggs • Emily Hernandez • Bryan Hull • David Irvin • Ben Peterson • Ashley Shaw • Carmin Smoot • Erin Renee Wahl

10:10am MDT

They're Free, Now What?: Finding and Using Government Documents 255 FBrian Wages

11:10am MDT

A Vision for the Future of ULA: An Advocacy Perspective 255 ARebekah Cummings • Peter Bromberg

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Awards Presentation Exhibit Hall 2

1:30pm MDT

Here Be Monsters: Reviewing and Maintaining Library Policies 155 BJosh Johnson • Carla Gordon • Linda King • Shawn Bliss

2:20pm MDT

Afternoon Break & Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall 2

2:50pm MDT

Beyond Eliminating Overdue Fines: Creating a Culture of Trust by Re-evaluating Patron Policies in Access Services 255 AWhitney Hilley We are All Mockingbirds: Imposter Syndrome among Library Employees and How to Manage It 155 BAlyssa Meldrum

3:50pm MDT

Qualitative Analysis on a Budget: Improvising with Free Software 258Anne R. Diekema • Brandon Patterson • Betsy Hopkins • Nena Schvaneveldt

4:20pm MDT

Networking Social Exhibit Hall 2

6:00pm MDT

Trivia Night at Gracie's Gracie'sDonnie Tidwell
 
Friday, May 10
 

7:30am MDT

Early Morning Coffee Service Upper Mezzanine Registration Upper Mezzanine

8:45am MDT

Quiet Space 257 B

9:00am MDT

Keynote - Emily Drabinski & Welcome MPLA 255 B/CEmily Drabinski

10:15am MDT

Morning Break & Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall 2 Poster Sessions Lower MezzanineCharlene Brewer • Julia Curtis • Deanna Duffy • Adam Griggs • Emily Hernandez • Bryan Hull • David Irvin • Ben Peterson • Erin Renee Wahl • Ashley Shaw

10:30am MDT

Sy Montgomery Book Sales & Signing Exhibit Hall 2Sy Montgomery

10:45am MDT

The Power of Relationship Building 255 DLizanell Boman • Susan Hiner

11:45am MDT

Lunch & Author Sy Montgomery Exhibit Hall 2Sy Montgomery

1:15pm MDT

Meeting the Misinformation Moment: Library Interventions in an Era of Supercharged Artificial Intelligence 255 DRebekah Cummings

2:05pm MDT

Afternoon Break Exhibit Hall 2

2:30pm MDT

The Traumatized Librarian: Psychological Injury within the LIS Profession 155 ADonna Baluchi • Lorelei Rutledge

3:30pm MDT

Debrief and Decompress: A Guided Session to Document Your Conference Insights and Tasks 255 DMatt Armstrong