ULA / MPLA Conference 2024

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ULA / MPLA Conference 2024

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

Wifi network ULA-MPLA 2024, password ULAMPLA24

9:00am MDT

Library Ethics: What Would You Do? (half day) 255 AGail Santy • Patty Collins Reference Mapping: Introducing Front Line Support Staff to the Reference Interview (half day) 255 DMary Chapman • Deanna Simonis • Donnie Tidwell • Cherie Willis Design Accessible Infographics to Market Your Library (full day) 258April K. Miller • Katherine Loving

11:00am MDT

FamilySearch Library Tour FamilySearch Library

1:30pm MDT

FamilySearch Library Tour FamilySearch Library

8:30am MDT

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

9:40am MDT

Career Services Booth Exhibit Hall 2 Copyright Booth Upper Mezzanine 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

Library Architecture: Practical Solutions for Contemporary Problems 259Sameem Kanishka Reshaping Libraries: The Power of Branding and Voice 155 ACorey Hayes 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 The Future of Libraries 155 BShelley O'Rourke ULA 101 and Power Up Your Professional Development with MPLA 258Shay Beezley (she/her) • Maggie Marchant • Emily Johnson

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Awards Presentation Exhibit Hall 2

1:30pm MDT

Empowering Librarians: Leveraging Data for Enhanced Patron Engagement 255 ARyan Patrick • Heidi Fendrick The Curious Case of the Vanishing Librarian: Leaving Our Politics, Religion, and Morals at the Door 258Chris Younkin

2:50pm MDT

Adult Literacy in Utah: The Impact Your Library Can Have 155 AShauna Brown • Carla Gordon • Matt McLain Community Partnerships 155 DDeborah Smith Free Websites for Family History Researchers 255 FCherie Bush Libraries as Career Boosters: Helping Our Patrons Soar 259Maggie Marchant • Lee Whiting • Jessica Tuwun We are All Mockingbirds: Imposter Syndrome among Library Employees and How to Manage It 155 BAlyssa Meldrum

3:50pm MDT

360 History: Creating a Historical Campus Tour Using Thinglink 255 EBenjamin Hedges Qualitative Analysis on a Budget: Improvising with Free Software 258Anne R. Diekema • Brandon Patterson • Betsy Hopkins • Nena Schvaneveldt Your Patrons Are Multilingual — And So Are Scammers 155 DAri Lazarus

9:00am MDT

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

10:15am MDT

Copyright Booth Upper Mezzanine Poster Sessions Lower MezzanineCharlene Brewer • Julia Curtis • Deanna Duffy • Adam Griggs • Emily Hernandez • Bryan Hull • David Irvin • Ben Peterson • Erin Renee Wahl • Ashley Shaw Career Services Booth Exhibit Hall 2

10:45am MDT

Candid Conversations About Censorship 255 ARachel Wadham • Jamie Hansen

11:45am MDT

Lunch & Author Sy Montgomery Exhibit Hall 2Sy Montgomery

1:15pm MDT

Focusing on the "Can": Framing Your Messaging for Patron Empowerment 259Amber Swartz Meeting the Misinformation Moment: Library Interventions in an Era of Supercharged Artificial Intelligence 255 DRebekah Cummings Reviewing, Rewriting and Respecting Reconsideration Interactions 255 AWanda Huffaker • Katie Wegner

2:30pm MDT

It's a Three-Winged Circus! Collaborating Across Town Yields Efficiencies, Programming Opportunities, and Expanded Notions of How Best to Meet Patron Needs 258Annie Epperson • Elena Rosenfeld • Carol Satersmoen The Traumatized Librarian: Psychological Injury within the LIS Profession 155 ADonna Baluchi • Lorelei Rutledge

3:30pm MDT

A Tribal Libraries Committee: Support for Indigenous C 155 DKatherine Witzig D.I.Y. Library Escape Rooms 258Sami Merrell Debrief and Decompress: A Guided Session to Document Your Conference Insights and Tasks 255 DMatt Armstrong How to Run a Successful Tradeshow 155 ADana Belcher • Gloria Farmer Resources to Understand the Conflict in the Middle East: A Librarian’s Guide 255 ESafi Safiullah • Lindsay Pruett The Business of Ebooks & Audiobooks: Libraries, Authors, Publishers, and Platforms 255 FJosh Johnson • Stephanie Everett • Darci Card