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Friday
, May 8
Chesapeake Ballroom / Exhibitor Hall
8:00am •
Silent Auction
8:00am •
Exhibitor Hall Open
Chesapeake E
11:15am •
Styling Creative Programs: The Modern Literary Salon
12:30pm •
Embracing the Joy: Getting Comfortable with Romance
Chesapeake F
11:15am •
Collections to Creations: A Flexible Mindful Making Model for Teen Services
12:30pm •
Shorelines on the Shelves: Connecting Patrons with the Local Environment
Chesapeake G
11:15am •
Reading in the Psych Ward: Libraries Inside Institutional Walls
12:30pm •
Beyond Books: Empowering Public Librarians to Advocate for Unhoused Patrons
Chesapeake/Choptank Foyer
8:00am •
Registration Table Open
12:00pm •
Boxed Lunch Pickup
Choptank Ballroom
7:30am •
MLA Annual Breakfast & Awards Ceremony
10:00am •
Friday Keynote - Cyndee Landrum
Clipper A/B
11:15am •
Balancing the Books: Intellectual Freedom in Technical Services and Collection Development
12:30pm •
Build Your Outreach Kit
Clipper C
11:15am •
Ignite Session #3
12:30pm •
Once Upon a Summer: Our Stories, Our Shelves, and the Maryland Libraries Summer Ideas Toolkit
Cutter A
11:15am •
The Talbot County Free SEED Library
12:30pm •
Our Stories, Our Shelves, Our Trails: Connecting Communities to Nature Through Library Lending
Cutter B
11:15am •
Maintaining Our Virtual Shelves: Database Descriptions for Better Patron Engagement
Exhibit Hall - Booth 22
8:00am •
Author Signing - Laura Parnum, Veronica Jones
10:00am •
Author Signing - Salvacion Monasterio, Doreen Hamilton
Galleon A/B/C
7:30am •
DLA Annual Breakfast
12:30pm •
Shelf Censorship: Threats to the First Amendment's protection of intellectual freedom
Schooner A
11:15am •
Cents and Sensibility: Financial literary for your patrons.
12:30pm •
Using Digital Tools to Preserve Organizational History
Schooner B
11:15am •
Snack Attack at the Stacks: An Afterschool Cooking Program
12:30pm •
Fundraising Without Fundraisers: Turning Awareness into Action
Skipjack A
11:15am •
Share Your Story With Pride: Building a Community Driven Art Show At Your Library
12:30pm •
Keeping You and the Library Safe: How to Handle Contaminated Materials
Windjammer
11:15am •
Using the M in STEM: Engaging Children with Math
12:30pm •
Who's Going to Do It?: Utilizing Vendor Services to Fill Outreach Gaps
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