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Alaska Library Association Annual Conference

Dates: February 23 - 26, 2006
Location: Anchorage Hilton
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Anchorage 2006: Learning Through Libraries


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Featured Speakers

Speaker Session Name
Michael W. Macleod-Ball

Patriot Act

Peggy Barber

Marketing as a Team Sport

The Power Of Word-Of-Mouth Marketing

Marshall Breeding

Trends in library Automation

Wireless Networks in Libraries

Library Security Issues

Jan Buhmann

Developing Web-Based Tutorials: A hands-on workshop

High Impact Visual Design for the Web and PowerPoint

Rapid Training Design: A short course for librarians

Cassandra Osterloh

Rural Library Sustainability

Barbara Fister

Keynote: Libraries and the Cartography of Knowledge

Research as a Rhetorical Act

Assessing the Library’s Contribution to Student Learning

Reading as a Contact Sport

Michael Gorman

Opening Reception

Bibliographic Control and the Web

Michael Hart

Project Gutenberg and the Future of E-books

Ben Mikaelsen

Authors to Alaska Luncheon: Research...Finding the "Heart of a Story"

Working With At-Risk Students

Julie Renee Moore

RDA: Resource Description and Access

Cataloging Videorecordings, Part 1

Cataloging Videorecordings, Part 2

Oh the Places You’ll Go . . . as a Cataloger!

Greg Newby

Project Gutenberg and the Future of E-books

Greg Notess

Endnote: Web Search Training: The librarian advantage

Screencasting for Quick Online Tutorials

Teaching Google Print, Google Scholar, and Google Libraries

Father Michael Oleksa

Literacy and Learning

The Local Traditional Culture

Ira Perman

Ready to Read, Ready to Learn: Alaska early childhood literacy and learning initiative

Loriene Roy

Honoring Generations: Recruiting the next generation of Native librarians

IILF4: International Librarianship and Alaska

Steve Shields Basic Maintenance and Upkeep of Your Library's Public Computers (two showings)

Session 34

Session 43

Michael Sullivan

Connecting Boys with Bbooks

The Fragile Future of Public Libraries

Tracy Swaim

ABCs of Learning Disabilities

Universal Design Ideas in Library Instruction


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