Doug Johnson
We’ll kick off our conference on Thursday with Doug Johnson, Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato, Minnesota Public Schools, as well as author of four books, a regular column in Library Media Connection and his Blue Skunk Blog which averages 50,000 visits a month. Read more about him http://www.doug-johnson.com/welcome/.  Doug has agreed to stay with us throughout the two-day conference to share his experience in breakout sessions and in informal chats with attendees.

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Susan Pfeffer
 At lunch on Thursday we will hear from Susan Pfeffer, author of several books including the 2008 Isinglass and Flume nominee Life As We Knew It and its newly released companion volume dead & the gone.  Read more about her on her blog at http://susanbethpfeffer.blogspot.com/.

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Lita Judge
On Friday our luncheon speaker will be Lita Judge, author and illustrator of several books including the winner of the 2008 IRA Children’s Book Award and ALA Notable book One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II.  The conference committee has chosen this for NHEMA’s first “One Book, One Conference” discussion which Lita has agreed to facilitate. Learn more a Lita and her books at http://www.litajudge.com/.

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Please plan to join us! 

Pam Tinker, 2009 Conference Chair