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8:00am EDT

Basic Reader's Advisory Room 9Melissa Skipper • Sharon Evrard • Hollye Ferguson • Memphis Public Library Walking Together Through Open Doors: Successful Mentoring Room 10Diane Kelly • Martha Earl • Susan Earl • Meredith P. Goins • Ruth Kinnersley • Joseph Winberry • College and University Libraries Roundtable • Library Leadership Roundtable

11:00am EDT

Registration Convention Center Concourse

1:00pm EDT

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Building a Foundation Room 2Kristin Lahurd • Jody Gray • Andrea Zielke Supercharged Storytimes: Opening Your Mind to Self-Reflection & Assessment Room 9Jenny Claiborne • Whitney Nelson • Liz Schreck • Kate Smith • Andrea Zielke

7:30am EDT

Registration Convention Center Concourse

8:00am EDT

Copyrights and Wrongs: How to Share, Scan and Stay Legal Room 2M. Courtnay Zeitler Divergent isn't just a Title in YA anymore Room 7Lon Maxwell Lessons Learned Room 9Lydia Copeland Gwyn • Jonathan Wilson Opening Pathways to Inclusion: Designing a Participant-Driven Cultural Competency Certificate Program Room 10Janelle Coleman • Thura Mack • Anna Sandelli (she/her) Other Duties as Assigned Room 11Kimberlee Byrge • Megan Harrison UT's iSchool Student Forum Room 8Suzie Allard

9:00am EDT

General Session Rooms 4, 5, 6Dr. Bernard Turner Exhibits Open Exhibit Hall C

11:00am EDT

Free Time in Exhibits Exhibit Hall C

11:45am EDT

Intellectual Freedom Luncheon Rooms 14, 15Barrett Brown • Intellectual Freedom Committee

1:10pm EDT

College and University Libraries Roundtable Room 9Joseph Winberry • College and University Libraries Roundtable Intellectual Freedom Committee Room 7Ollie Rieger • Intellectual Freedom Committee From Name Authorities to Identity Management Room 10Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts Get with the Program! Building a Jammin' Jumpin' Programmin' Team Room 2Tina L. Stevens Ma Said What? Tackling the racism in Little House, TinTin, Seuss and more in our children's libraries Room 11Lindsey Patrick-Wright Tools, Guitars, and Museum Passes: Nontraditional Circulating Collections Room 8Jaclyn Anderson

2:10pm EDT

If the book Fits - Read it! Room 7Cynthia Green • Marcia Nelson Introduction to BIBFRAME: The Program Created to Open our Patrons' Hearts and Minds by Opening our Library Doors Through the Use of Linked Data Room 10Georgia Baskett Lessons from the Leaders: What can we learn from those leading the Tennessee library landscape? Room 11Caitlyn Haley • Kent Oliver • Charles A. Sherrill • Dr. Steven Smith Maximize Your Networking to Facilitate Programming Room 8Clancy Anderson Stand and Be Counted: Libraries Facilitating Voter Engagement Room 2Holly Hebert • Michelle Adcock • Kevin Dixon • Pamela Johnson • Amber McKee • Ashley Michelle Roach The Evolving Reference Desk: If We Scrap It, Then What? Room 9Ross Bowron • Joe Weber

3:00pm EDT

VERSO User Group Meeting Plaza A

3:10pm EDT

Public Libraries Roundtable Room 8Ari Baker Technical Services Roundtable Exhibit Hall CCarl Parham Critical Literacy: Reframing Information for the Academically Underprepared Room 10Paige Hendrickson Focus Groups in the Library: Impacting Hearts and Minds Room 9Rachel Scott • brannen varner Opening a Door to Our History: The TLA Archives at TSLA Room 7Trent Hanner Opening the Door for Outreach: Turning Summer Reading Momentum into Meaningful School Year Programs Room 11Jennifer Johnson What the TEC? Creating a Digital Presence in Your Community Room 2Trey Gwinn • Kevin Robertson • Kathleen M. Tyree

4:00pm EDT

SHAREit User Group Meeting Plaza A

4:10pm EDT

Digitizing Memories: Providing Preservation Services to Patrons Room 10Megan Atkinson • Chelsea Gifford Extra Credit: Opening the Door to Free Educator Resources from the Feds Room 9Bess Robinson • Perveen Rustomfram • Government Documents Roundtable Mapping the History of African American Communities in Tennessee Room 2Susan Knowles • Zada Law • Ken Middleton Not Just the Same Old Story: Partnering With Schools to Refresh Reading Lists Room 7Erica DeBin Strategic Planning with Your Community in Mind Room 11Wendy Cornelisen • Lecia Eubanks • Richard Groves We know you love a conference, so plan one at your library. We did! Room 8Katie Creecy • Brigid Day

5:30pm EDT

SIS Alumni Reception Tennessee River Room

7:00pm EDT

All Conference Reception Chattanooga Public Library

7:30am EDT

Registration Convention Center Concourse

8:00am EDT

50 ways to recognize outstanding employees Room 8Bess Robinson • Perveen Rustomfram Art in the Library: Make-it, Take-it Programs Room 2Heather Duby • Megan Hopkins Bridging the Gap: Connecting Museums and Libraries with LEGO™ Bricks Room 7Polly Brasher • Jenny Virgin Opening our minds: Two Early Career Librarians. Two Roundtables. Where To From Here? Room 9Ashley Roach-Freiman • Joseph Winberry • Access and Patron Services Roundtable • College and University Libraries Roundtable Screen Doors are for Flies Only Room 11Dinah Harris What's in the Name? Creating LC Name Authorities in Context at the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville Room 10Kim Blaylock • Meredith Hale • Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts • Wanda Rosinski

9:00am EDT

1 Community, 1 Book, 1 Read: How a School-Library Collaboration Brought a Book to Life Room 7Terri Bradshaw • Anjanae Brueland • Mike Crabtree • Vandy Kemp • Jennifer W. Spirko Design on a Dime: Library marketing and merchandising on a shoestring budget Room 8Cynthia Green • Amy Beth Kear • Marcia Nelson Library Spaces: The Right to Meeting Rooms Room 2Sharon Edwards • Martha Hendricks • Ollie Rieger • Charles A. Sherrill • Intellectual Freedom Committee • Legislation Committee Open Access Activism in Technical Services Room 10Caitlin Harrington • Rachel Scott Resilience in Leadership: Balancing your Heart and Mind Room 11Susan Earl • Martha Earl • Meredith P. Goins • Ruth Kinnersley • Library Leadership Roundtable Services and Programming: The Heart and Soul of the Library Room 9May Lingner • Janet Walker Exhibits Open Exhibit Hall C

10:00am EDT

Free Time in Exhibits Exhibit Hall C

11:00am EDT

Does Crowdsourcing Work?: The Story of How We Did It and What We Would Have Done Differently Room 7Amber McKee • Ashli Wells Full STEAM Ahead Room 8Elizabeth Kozlowski Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds, Open Source Room 10Margaret Brown Opening Hearts and Locks! Escape Rooms Room 2Vanessa Cain • Lara Freidhof • Kathryn McBride Reward Student Accomplishments: Start a Scholarship at Your Library! Room 9Wendy Doucette • Rebecca Tolley Sensory Story time: a special kind of story time Room 11Jennifer Henry

12:00pm EDT

Friends and Trustees Luncheon Rooms 14, 15Friends of Tennessee Libraries

1:40pm EDT

Access and Patron Services Roundtable Room 9Ashley Roach-Freiman • Access and Patron Services Roundtable Children and Young Adult Services Roundtable Room 7Missy Dillingham • Children and Young Adult Services Roundtable Library Leadership Roundtable Room 8Meredith P. Goins • Library Leadership Roundtable 3 Step De-Escalation Approach Infused with Mercy and Grace Room 11Christina Riedel Open Doors: Library and museum collaboration *Cancelled* Room 2Dr. Brenda G'Fellers • Anne G'Fellers-Mason • Richard Griffin Privacy is dead. Can I have your password? Room 10Bryan Jones • Intellectual Freedom Committee

2:40pm EDT

Government Documents Roundtable Room 7Anne Whitver • Government Documents Roundtable Connecting Compassion with Service: Opening Doors for a Neglected Population in the Academic Library Room 9Jenny Harris • Tina Reid • Nicole Wood Open Your Hearts, Minds, and Doors to Collaboration! Room 2Jennifer Sharp • Tennessee Association for School Librarians Renetworking Census Data: Opening Users minds to public data’s importance Room 10Frances Bachstein, PhD • David Ownby Symphonic Tales Room 11Lee Hope • Olga Russell • Niki Tejero What's All That Noise?: The Studio at the Chattanooga Public Library Room 8Charles Allison • Meredith Levine