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2017 LibTech Conference

7:30am CDT

Breakfast / Registration Leonard Center Fieldhouse

9:00am CDT

Keynote Speaker: Lauren Di Monte Leonard Center Fieldhouse

10:30am CDT

Act Now for a Limited Time…One Easy Session of #Bookface, Videos and More! Olin-Rice 350 CANCELLED due to weather impact on travel: Ethical UX JBD Lecture Hall Cold War in the Catalog: Comparing the User Experience of E-book Platforms Neil 226 Makerspace Mornings in a School Library Media Center Library Harmon Room My Resources Are Digital But My Staff is Still Analog! Weyerhaeuser Boardroom OBLIque: A New Slant on Library Statistics Olin-Rice 150 Senior Tech: The Next Generation: Bringing Tech Learning to Seniors Where They Live Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Supporting Data Use in Undergraduate Student Research: From Teaching Basic Data Literacy to Incorporating Data Documentation into Empirical Research Projects Olin-Rice 250 Using 3D Printing to Enhance Student Learning in Content Areas Olin-Rice 100

11:30am CDT

Lunch Leonard Center Fieldhouse

1:00pm CDT

Bridging the Gap: Underserved Populations and Technology Weyerhaeuser Boardroom Creating Collaborative Connections through Conversation, Community, and Cranes Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Documenting the Now: Building Ethical Social Media Archives Neil 226 Ebooks and SimplyE: A Consortial Approach Olin-Rice 250 Getting Unstuck: A Collaborative Approach to Getting Started with Digital Preservation Olin-Rice 100 Launching the Learning Commons: Digital Learning and Leadership Initiative Library Harmon Room Library Website Redesign: Turning Awful into Awesome JBD Lecture Hall Redefining the LSP from the Inside Out Olin-Rice 150 What Happens After You've Set Up an Academic Makerspace? Olin-Rice 350

2:15pm CDT

Circulating Laptops Neil 226 Digital Texts and Learning: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Use JBD Lecture Hall Enhancing Your Library's Bento Box Interface with BrowZine API's Olin-Rice 150 Making Something Out of Nothing: Building Digital Humanities Partnerships Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Should I Stay or Should I Go: What to Do When Your Beloved Software is Unsupported? Update it Yourself! Library Harmon Room So, You’ve Got a Learning Commons. What Now? Olin-Rice 250 Taking the Next Plunge: Managing a Full Steam Upgrade to LibApps Olin-Rice 350 Win-Win: Hennepin County Library and Hopkins Public Schools Join Forces Weyerhaeuser Boardroom

3:30pm CDT

Add a Little Flair to Your Library: An Incentive Program for Student Workers Neil 226 Becoming a Drupal View-master Olin-Rice 150 Giving a Voice to Audio Collections Olin-Rice 350 Global Connections in the K-5 Classroom Library Harmon Room Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: How to Go Open Source Without a Systems Department, A Case Study Olin-Rice 100 iLAB: Year One Olin-Rice 250 Interpreting Student Searches: Enriching Library Outreach through Search Query Analysis Weyerhaeuser Boardroom PALNI Code School: Developing Skills for the Future of Librarianship Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Reducing the Noise: Improving Library Staff Communication, Knowledge-Sharing, and Engagement with Common Platforms JBD Lecture Hall

5:30pm CDT

ARLD Happy Hour - LibTech Edition, Volume 2 The Rabbit Hole

7:00pm CDT

Board Game Night Chicago Room, Sheraton Midtown Hotel

8:00am CDT

Breakfast / Registration Leonard Center Fieldhouse

9:00am CDT

Keynote Speaker: Patrick Meier Leonard Center Fieldhouse

10:30am CDT

Building an Ebook Platform from Scratch: Are You Daft? Olin-Rice 150 Ignite Learning Opportunities for Children and Teens at Your Makerspace Library Harmon Room Increase Discovery of Your Institution's Research Through SHARE Weyerhaeuser Boardroom Live Chat: Librarians Using Simple Technology to Provide Access to Justice (Social and Legal) to Patrons in Distress Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Look Ma, I'm on YouTube! Creating Impactful Library Tutorials JBD Lecture Hall Mapping a Tornado Tragedy: A Crowdsoucing Case Study Neil 226 Using Flipped Classroom Techniques to Enhance One-Shot Library Instruction Sessions Olin-Rice 250 What Could Go Wrong? Gently Testing the Security of Your Vended and In-house Web Applications Olin-Rice 350

11:30am CDT

Lunch Leonard Center Fieldhouse

1:00pm CDT

Beyond Vendor Solutions: Homegrown COUNTER Usage Statistics Reports and Analysis Neil 226 Blending Large Scale Syllabi Text Analysis with Qualitative Instructor Preferences Data to Help Inform Directions for Media Collections Development and Outreach Library Harmon Room Emerging Technologies: A Task? A Specialty in Librarianship? For Now, the Answer Appears to be, “Yes.” JBD Lecture Hall Hack the Gap: Making Your Collections and Instruction Accessible for All Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Innovation at Work: Artists, Entrepreneurs and Jobseekers in the Makerspace Olin-Rice 350 It's Time: Getting It Right on Rights Olin-Rice 250 User Experience Strategies for Every Library. Yes, Even Yours Weyerhaeuser Boardroom Using SAMR to Design Transformative Learning Experiences with Technology Olin-Rice 150

2:15pm CDT

Lightning Round: After Ingest: Appraisal, Processing and Access: The Next Steps of the Electronic Records Task Force JBD Lecture Hall Lightning Round: Freeze-Frame: Archiving the Dynamic Web with Webrecorder.io JBD Lecture Hall Lightning Round: Hosting Your Own Link Shortener JBD Lecture Hall Lightning Round: Joint LibGuides: A Tale of Two Libraries JBD Lecture Hall Lightning Round: New Tools for E-Publishing in Libraries JBD Lecture Hall Lightning Round: That’s Pretty Neat: Free and Easy Resources to Boost Your Small Business and Entrepreneurship Programming JBD Lecture Hall Build a Better Survey: Develop Surveys that Really Tell You Something About Your Users Weyerhaeuser Boardroom Createch/SPNN: Partnering to Engage Youth with Media in Saint Paul Libraries Library Harmon Room Eleven Ways Your Current Tutorials Are as Forgettable as Barb and What to Do About It: Strategies for Creating Accessible and Usable Online Library Instruction Using New Technologies and Other Stranger Things Olin-Rice 100 Enriching Student Learning with Data Visualization Olin-Rice 250 Google Apps is now G Suite: Explore New Features & More Neil 302 How to Make User Experience Practical for Your Library Olin-Rice 350 The Next Generation of Library Orientation: Discussion on the Application of Virtual and Immersive Reality, 360 Degree Movies, etc. Neil 226 Tips for Better Taps: How to Conduct a Mobile Usability Study Library 206 Using Swift Playgrounds to Teach & Learn App Programming Leonard Center Hall of Fame Room Video Killed the Library Star? Making Low Pressure Videos for your Library Library L03

3:45pm CDT

Closing Reception Leonard Center Fieldhouse