The NHEMA conference committee is currently
accepting proposals for our Spring Conference. The theme of the
Conference this year is “LIVE! From Your
Library.” In keeping with that theme, we are looking
for presentations that talk about the various ways your library program
has moved beyond the stereotypical repository of print materials.
Please share your strategies for keeping your program “alive” for
students, staff, and the community…the possibilities are endless!
Now is the time to share your advocacy and programming ideas as well as
your expertise with new technology innovations with your fellow library
media specialists!
We have more sessions in the planning and pending
stages, but we need you! Please
plan now to attend and think of a presentation you can offer up to your
colleagues.
Although we cannot set our conference rates until
we know our expenses and contributions, please estimate $100 per day or
$180 for the two days if you need to encumber funds now. Rooms at the
North Conway Grand Hotel will be $89.00 per night and the conference
rate will extend through the weekend for people who wish to stay on and
shop or just enjoy the mountains!
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
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.
Click on Doug's image for more information.
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/.
Click on Susan's image for more information.
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/.
Click on Lita's image for more information.
Please plan to join us!
Pam Tinker, 2009 Conference Chair
Pamala J. Tinker,
Director ,
Merrimack
School District
Library Program,
38 McElwain Street
,
Merrimack
,
NH
03054
. pamtinker@comcast.net,
Phone: 603.424.6203 FAX: 603.262.9125
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