Breakouts by Track 2026

Administrative and Management
Library Facility Management 1015/13/2026 11:00am5/13/2026 12:00pm
Training that Sticks: Improving Onboarding for Staff5/14/2026 9:00am5/14/2026 10:00am
Once Upon a Dataset: Planning, Promoting, and Proving Impact in Children’s Services5/14/2026 1:30pm5/14/2026 2:30pm
Adult Programming or Services
"Our Story, Our Place": An Immersive and Inclusive Library Experience5/13/2026 3:00pm5/13/2026 4:00pm
Seeds of Change: Agricultural Stories In Programming5/14/2026 10:30am5/14/2026 11:30am
Children's Programming or Services
Promoting Prequels: Helping Navigate the Preschool Years Through Library Programming (pre-conference ticket)5/12/2026 1:00pm5/12/2026 4:00pm
Cultivating Readers - Libraries as Literacy Leaders5/14/2026 10:30am5/14/2026 11:30am
Collection Management
The Data Made Us Do It: Cancelling Everyone’s Favorite Journals5/13/2026 3:00pm5/13/2026 4:00pm
Fundraising
Building a Pipeline to Increase Fundraising for Your Library!5/15/2026 10:30am5/15/2026 11:30am
Intellectual freedom
Advocacy in Action: IF Stories of Success5/13/2026 1:30pm5/13/2026 2:30pm
Leadership
Leadership Through Partnership: Building Our Story Together (pre-conference ticket)5/12/2026 1:00pm5/12/2026 4:00pm
Community Leadership Stories5/13/2026 11:00am5/13/2026 12:00pm
Leading and Learning: Paths to Empowerment5/13/2026 1:30pm5/13/2026 2:30pm
What We Learned This Year: Stories of Growth5/13/2026 3:00pm5/13/2026 4:00pm
From Shelves to Safety: Equipping Library Staff for Crisis De-escalation5/14/2026 10:30am5/14/2026 11:30am
Do You Work Here?: Managing Volunteers in Libraries5/14/2026 3:00pm5/14/2026 4:30pm
Marketing and Community Outreach
Shared Stories, Different Settings: A Comparative Study of Two Libraries5/13/2026 1:30pm5/13/2026 2:30pm
Beyond Library Walls: Bringing Programs to Medical Spaces5/13/2026 3:00pm5/13/2026 4:00pm
Creating a Legacy: Mascots in Academic Libraries5/14/2026 10:30am5/14/2026 11:30am
Bookshelves of Curiosity5/14/2026 1:30pm5/14/2026 2:30pm
Amplifying the Impact: Effective Marketing Strategies for Your FEL Resources5/14/2026 3:00pm5/14/2026 4:30pm
Video Storytelling: Capture and Share Meaningful Stories Using a Smartphone5/15/2026 10:30am5/15/2026 11:30am
Other
Eatonville History Preservation Community Quilt Project5/13/2026 1:30pm5/13/2026 2:30pm
Personal and Professional Development
Plain Language Toolkit for Librarians: Practical Tools to Improve Understanding, Engagement and Trust5/13/2026 11:00am5/13/2026 12:00pm
Career 411: Never Too Late to Jumpstart Your Career! (90 min)5/14/2026 10:30am5/14/2026 12:00pm
Retired Not Expired: Stories of Engagement in Retirement5/14/2026 1:30pm5/14/2026 2:30pm
President's Theme
Tell Your Library’s Story: Maps, Timelines, and Data in Action (pre-conference ticket required)5/12/2026 1:00pm5/12/2026 4:00pm
Telling Your Library’s Story Through Signage5/14/2026 9:00am5/14/2026 10:00am
Shelf-Promotion: Crafting Your Brand in the Digital Age5/14/2026 1:30pm5/14/2026 2:30pm
Navigate and Advocate: Our Stories of Library Accessibility5/14/2026 3:00pm5/14/2026 4:30pm
Programming or Services - All ages
Performers and Comics Convention Showcase5/13/2026 1:30pm5/13/2026 4:30pm
Shared Stories: Partnering with Local Authors for Community Impact5/13/2026 11:00am5/13/2026 12:00pm
Librarians & Leviathans - Using TTRPGs in the Library5/14/2026 3:00pm5/14/2026 4:30pm
Gotta Catch Them All: Nontraditional Programming to Level Up Impact5/15/2026 9:15am5/15/2026 10:15am
From Galaxies to Gardens: Storytelling Through Collaborative Library Programming5/15/2026 10:30am5/15/2026 11:30am
Technical Services
Open Rules for Cataloging5/14/2026 9:00am5/14/2026 10:00am
Tween and Teen Programming or Services
Cosplay Workshops: Skill-Building & Community-Building at the Library5/14/2026 9:00am5/14/2026 10:00am