PNLA Conference Program

[Cindy Cunningham <cindy@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>]

Here, again, is the conference program. There have 
been some very slight 
adjustments since the last time it was sent out. A 
final program will be 
available at the conference. The registration form 
was just sent out 
separately. 
 
Travel instructions for plane or car, are included at 
the end of this 
information, as well as hotel information. 
  
 
 
 
Preliminary PNLA Conference Program 
August 6-9, 1997 
 
 
Wednesday, August 6 
 
12-6 p.m. Exhibitor set-up 
	       Registration, Bell Harbor International 
Conference Center, lobby 
			Seattle waterfront, Alaskan 
Way and Bell St. 
 
2-5:30 PNLA Board Meeting, Warwick Hotel, 
Queen Elizabeth Suite, rm. 1908 
 
7:30-9 p.m. Trapped Between Two Worlds. Will 
Manley, Keynote Speaker. 
		Bell Harbor International Conference 
Center, Auditorium 
 
Well-known American Libraries columnist Will 
Manley will address the dilemma of being a  
librarian in a world of every-changing information 
formats. Hints on how to cope without going  
nuts will be offered. 
 
Will Manley is Assistant Director of the Community 
Services Department for the City of Tempe,  
AZ, where he is in charge of the public library, 
historical museum, parks and recreation division  
and social services division. Prior to getting this 
position in 1985, Manley worked as a library  
director for over 13 years. He has written over 200 
articles for magazines ranging from Readers  
Digest to Library Journal. For 12 years he wrote the 
"Facing the Public" column for the Wilson  
Libraries Bulletin. Currently he writes a monthly 
column for American Libraries and for Booklist. 
 
9-11 p.m. Opening Reception, Bell Harbor dining 
room 
 
 
 
 
Thursday, August 7 
 
7 a.m. - 5 p.m. registration desk open 
 
7 -8:30 a.m. Interest Group breakfast meetings, in 
Dining Hall 
Come enjoy a buffet breakfast and take part in 
discussions with colleagues of similar interests and  
positions. Drop-in guests welcome:. The interest 
groups are: Academic, Youth Services, ILL,  
Reference, Christian Community, Government 
Documents, Library Instruction, and Management. 
 
8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. exhibits open 
 
8:45 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Exhibit Hall Opening 
Event/Coffee Hour 
 
10-11:30 Programs: 
 
Book as Art Form: an historic overview and 
demonstration. Kate Leonard and Sandra Kroupa,  
presenters. 
Kate and Sandra will review the history of book arts 
and the book as a form or structure. Sandra  
will open with a slide show. Kate will discuss some 
of the many forms books have taken, and will  
take participants through making a simple book 
form of their own. Participation limited to 30--see  
registration form.  This program will be repeated at 
1:30. 
 
Kate Leonard is the Conservation Supervisor and 
Sandra Kroupa is the Book Arts Librarian at the 
University of Washington Libraries. 
 
 
Bringing Technology into Learning and Teaching: 
the UWired story. Jill McKinstry and  
Andrea Bartlestein, presenters. 
Jill and Andi will discuss and demonstrate the 
UWired program, a collaborative learning  
experiment where librarians and faculty planned a 
curriculum for in-coming freshman that  
incorporated on-line technology using new laptop 
Powerbooks. Uwired's goal is to create an  
electronic community in which communication. 
collaboration, and information technologies  
become integral to teaching and learning. This 
session will emphasize the librarians' roles and  
describe several of the program initiatives. 
Information about the program is available at  
http://www.washington.edu/uwired. 
 
Jill McKinstry is Networked Information Librarian 
and Interim Head of Systems Distributed  
Computing, and Andrea Bartlestein is UWired 
Librarian, both at the University of Washington. 
 
Building Collections for the Conservative Christian 
Community. Panel discussion, Mike  
Wessells, moderator. 
The explosion of publications and demand among 
the conservative Christian community requires  
knowledge of unique tools for building collections in 
this interest area. A panel of selector,  
reviewer, and vendor will present ideas for serving 
and winning friends for libraries among this  
sector of our public. 
 
Michael Wessells is Community Library Coordinator 
at Timberland Regional Library System. 
 
 
Bringing Book Talks to the Radio Audience: the 
story of Storylines. Georgia Lomax, presenter. 
Georgia will describe a radio book talk program that 
started in Montana in 1995 with the "Big Sky  
Radio" program. With the encouragement of the 
American Libraries Association,  they got NEH  
funding to expand the program to the Northwest and 
Southwest, and it will be  broadcast,  
beginning in September,  1997. Come hear about an 
innovative way to promote reading and learn  
how libraries can take part in this regional book talk. 
 
Georgia Lomax is a Managing Librarian at the 
Covington Branch of the King County Library  
System and former director of the Flathead County 
Library System in Montana. 
 
 
11:45-1:15 "The Other Side of the Tale." Exhibitor 
Luncheon, Dining Room, Dr. Alvin  
Grenowski, presenter. 
 
Come meet our exhibitors, and hear Dr. Grenowski 
explore the villan's point of view in famous  
folk tales. This talk highlights issues of reading, 
writing, critical thinking, and above all, fair play  
in our dealings with one another. He comes to us 
courtesy of World Book, Inc.  
 
Dr. Grenowski, Vice President for Education and 
Community Service for World Book Education  
Products, has spent his career focussing on 
improving education for the nation's children and  
instilling in them a love of reading. He holds a 
Masters of Arts in teaching from Harvard  
University and a Doctorate in education from the 
University of Pennsylvania. He has been  
consultant, program director, and teacher in his 30-
year career. 
 
 
1:30-3 p.m. Programs: 
 
Libraries as Virtual Educational Environments. 
Randy Hensley, presenter. 
Randy will explore the library without walls to 
virtual library development, and the resulting  
impacts, electronic schools, MOOS, distance and 
virtual education and interactive technology.  
How do we teach and learn in this new environment 
and create a sense of place in virtual space?  
 
Randy Burke Hensley is Head of Central 
Information Services of Hamilton Library, 
University of  
Hawaii at Manoa. He is chair of the Instruction 
Section of the Association of College and Research  
Libraries, and has spoken extensively about  library 
instruction, learning styles, presentation skills,  
and technological innovations in teaching and 
learning. 
 
 
Cataloging the Internet for your local catalog: 
creating order out of chaos. Steve Shadle,  
presenter. 
Steve will provide an overview of the types of 
Internet resources being added to library catalogs.  
He will review and discuss with participants the 
cataloging rules used to describe and provide  
access to Internet resources, and inform participants 
of additional support tools available to assist  
in the cataloging of these items. On-line examples 
will be used to illustrate the problems of  
bibliographic description and access for these type of 
materials. 
 
Steve Shadle has been a serials cataloger at the 
University of Washington Libraries since 1995.  
His prior experience includes cataloging serials at 
the National Serials Data Program of the  
Library of Congress and managing technical services 
at the Agency for International Development  
Library in Washington, D.C. 
 
 
sex, `net & videotape: coping with new media.  
Randy Pitman, presenter. 
Librarians find themselves in the proverbial hot seat 
today because of the free-wheeling  
pornographic imagery found on the Internet. How 
did we allow ourselves to reach the point where  
city officials can now dictate library policy? We'll 
look at differences between the "word" and the  
"image" and debate whether we can offer our 
patrons the riches which the new media offer while  
still maintaining our allegiance to basic intellectual 
freedom principles.  
 
Randy Pitman is the Publisher/Editor of Video 
Librarian, the video review guide for libraries, and  
the author, most recently, of The Video Librarian's 
Guide to Collection Development and  
Management (G.K. Hall/Macmillan). 
 
Book as Art Form: an historic overview and 
demonstration. Kate Leonard and Sandra Kroupa. 
Repeat of the 10:30 a.m. program. Participation 
limited to 30--please see the registration form. 
 
Eloquent Systems presents: a new concept in 
resource integration. Vendor Demonstration. 
Come see Eloquent Systems' newest software 
product, which manages library, records  
management and archival collections in one product. 
 
 
3:00-3:15  Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall 
 
 
3:15-4:45  Community Partnerships: what is the 
library's role in community cyberspace?  
Panel discussion. Auditorium. 
Joey Rodgers, Madeline Gonzalez, and Cate 
McNeely will explore new partnerships and  new  
ways that libraries are getting their communities on-
line. Over the past decade a wide variety of  
experiments have been launched to bring the benefits 
of electronic networks to citizens. The  
Association of Community Networking  is offering a 
voice to the needs of communties in  
cyberspace--what can libraries contribution to this 
movement? Panelists will discuss community  
networking needs, the library's historical and current 
roles in this new environment and comment  
on some community collaborations with libraries. 
 
Joey Rodgers is the president of the Urban Libraries 
Council, in Chicago, IL. She is a frequent  
speaker on library issues, and has particpated most 
recently in a national teleconference on  
libraries and change entitled, "Dancing with 
Change." 
Madeline Gonzalez is acting executive director of 
the Association for Community Networking,  
based in Boulder, CO. She has been active in 
community networking, and has contributed to the  
formation of the Telluride InfoZone, the Boulder 
Community Network, and projects at Fort Lewis  
College, and the Southern Ute Tribe. 
Cate V. McNeely is the deputy chief librarian of the 
Richmond Public Library, in Richmond,  
British Columbia. Her library recently launched a 
community-based electronic page which includes  
a partnership with the local newspaper and offering 
a computer lab for the public. 
 
 
 
 
4:50-6 p.m Exhibitor Reception in Exhibit Hall 
 
Come have  glass of wine and unwind after a long 
day of networking and program attending. 
This moment of refreshment brought to us courtesy 
of our vendors. 
 
 
7:00-8:30 p.m. The REI story: a tour and reception 
in one of the most innovatiave stores in  
the Northwest. 
Come visit the new REI (Recreational Equipment, 
Inc.) store and see the fabulous marketing  
innovations, including the Pinnacle (a rock-climbing 
wall in the entrance hall), the Mountain Bike  
Course, the Rain and Mist room, and the Hiking 
trail. The evening will include a presentation,  
tour, and time to explore on your own. Learn the 
story of one of the country's most successful  
cooperatives and one of the Northwest's most 
famous institutions. Buses will leave from the  
Conference Center, beginning at 6:15 and return to 
the hotels. The $7 fee covers the bus fares;  
please see the registration form. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Friday, August 8 
 
7 a.m. -1 p.m.  Registration desk open 
 
7-8:15 a.m. ALA/CLA Breakfast, in the dining hall. 
 
Come hear Gerald Hodges, American Library 
Association's Director of Chapter Relations, and in- 
coming CLA President Paul Whitney talk about the 
state of the two associations and the issues that  
affect us all. Let them hear from you on how these 
associations can better serve librarians on both  
sides of the border. 
 
8:30-4:30 Exhibits open 
 
8:30-10 a.m. Programs: 
 
Shaping the Library of the Future: where are we 
going; where do we want to go; can we get  
there from here? Panel discussion, Leza Madsen,  
moderator. 
How can you separate the facts from the hype? Is 
the browser war really over? Are electronic  
reserves in your future? Are you steering the 
technology, or is it steering you? A panel of  
librarians, vendors, and publishers discuss the future 
of library services recommendations,  
scenarios, alternatives, and more. Audience 
participation invited. 
 
Leza Madsen is library director at University of 
Alaska Anchorage, Matanuska Susitna College.  
Sharon West is director of Library Services at the 
Western Library Network. 
Rushton Brandis is network development consultant 
for the Oregon State Library. 
 
 
History of the Book, from Cunniform to Electronic. 
Dr. Grant Skelley, presenter. 
Dr. Skelley will share his presentation of an 
historical gallop through several thousand years of  
written history. This entertaining and informative 
lecture was one of the most sought-after classes  
at Library School and sets the stage for our journey 
from vellum to virtual reality. 
 
Dr. Grant Skelley is professor emeritus at the 
Graduate School of Library and Information Science  
at the University of Washington. 
 
 
High Tech, High Touch: making human services 
effective in an electronic environment.  Panel  
discussion, Jodee Fenton, Megan Stearns, 
moderators. 
Libraries are contributing to cyberspace by offering 
access to information about community  
services--largely human services. But how can these 
services, that require high-touch interaction to  
often disadvantaged, information-poor citizens, be 
effective?What are some possible collaborations  
that library services can undertake with the 
electronic world? What have other libraries done to  
address the challenges of reaching those who need 
the information? This presentation will include   
breakout sessions to allow participants to brainstorm 
on the service and access challenges to  
making a responsive, effective electronic 
community.  
 
Jodee Fenton is the Coordinator of the Fine and 
Performing Arts Department at Seattle Public  
Library, and  Megan Stearns is Coordinator of the 
Science and Social Science Department. 
 
 
OCLC User Group Meeting. Vendor 
Demonstration. 
 
Come meet with OCLC and learn about the latest 
product developments and get your questions  
about OCLC's large menu of services answered. 
 
 
10:30 - 12 noon Programs: 
 
Virtual Reality: oxymoron versus cutting edge 
technology. 
Toni Emerson, presenter. 
 
Virtual Reality (VR) is a serious technology with 
many exciting applications. However, in the past  
decade VR has become a buzzword generating many 
misconceptions in the public arena. This talk  
juxtaposes the VR represented by popular media 
with the "real VR" exemplified in commercial and  
research applications. 
 
Toni Emerson has been immersed in the field of 
Virtual Reality since 1991. She founded the  
Human Interface Technology Lab's special library 
and was dubbed "cybrarian" by Online  
magazine for her work with this foremost VR lab in 
the country. She manages the HITL web site,  
the Knowledge Base project and is experimenting 
with ways to use emerging media to represent  
virtual reality research on the Internet.   
 
 
Expanding the Resources of your library: using the 
World Wide Web for Reference. 
Patrick Grace and Mary Ross, presenters. 
 
The World Wide Web is a powerful information 
resource for librarians and library users. But this  
powerful resource is complicated by the immense 
volume of Web sites of widely varying  
usefulness. This workshop will demonstrate how the 
Web can become your most valuable  
reference tool. Participants will learn to search the 
Web effectively and efficiently to answer many  
common reference questions from two perspectives-
-large subject department and small branch  
library.  
 
Patrick Grace is coordinator of Magazines, 
Newspapers and Government Publications 
Department  
at Seattle Public Library. Mary Ross is branch 
manager of the Greenwood Branch. 
 
 
Accessible Web Design and Adaptive Technology. 
Beth Fraser, presenter. 
The fantastic growth of both electronic information 
sources and adaptive technology enable  
libraries to serve people with disabilities as never 
before. Explore adaptive technologies for your  
library. Learn practical methods for ensuring that 
your electronic resources and WWW home  
pages are accessible to people utilizing adaptive 
technologies. Don't miss this opportunity to learn  
methods of opening up a whole new world of 
information to your patrons and students with  
disabilities. 
  
Beth Mabel Fraser is the Universal Access Project 
Librarian at the University of Washington. 
 
 
Getting the Outback On-line: a discussion group for 
small, rural libraraies. Aja Razumny,  
moderator. 
 
Come hear a panel of rural librarians talk about 
getting on-line, and learn how they manage it, pay  
for it and what advice they have for other libraries 
trying to make the leap. 
 
Aja Markel Razumny is a Development Librarian at 
the Alaska State Library where she has spent  
the last year instructing small rural libraries on how 
to utilize the Internet.  
 
  
12:15-1:45 Young Reader's Choice Award Banquet. 
Dining Room 
Come hear author Eve Bunting, winner in the junior 
division, 4th-8th grade, for Nasty, Stinky  
Sneakers. There will also be a reading from the 
works of Caroline B. Cooney, winner in the senior  
division with Driver's Ed. Ms. Cooney is not able to 
attend. The Young Reader's choice Award is  
the oldest national children's choice award. Come 
meet Eve Bunting and get your book signed. 
 
 
2-3:15 Programs: 
 
Measuring outcomes for on-line instruction. Colleen 
Bell, presenter. 
Colleen will present a panel that will discuss 
innovations in library instruction. Libraries at Pierce  
College and University of Alaska are using 
outcomes-based instruction. Marylhurst College has  
"Information Power," a required course for all 
students that is now available on-line. And the  
University of Oregon library is moving in new 
directions for its credit and non-credit programs.  
Come hear why and how we're doing it, and 
contribute your views on the future of library  
instruction.  
 
Colleen Bell is a Reference Librarian at the 
University of Oregon, at Eugene. Kyzyl Fenno-
Smith  
is a librarian at Pierce College, and Pierina Parese 
works at Marylhurst College. 
 
 
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909: a slide 
show. Carla Rickerson, presenter. 
Come see images of the first organized northwest 
regional gathering that took place in Seattle early  
in this centure. The AYP explosition, held on the 
newly formed UW campus, attracted people from  
all over the country.  All but one building is gone, 
but the slides evoke a by-gone era when Alaska  
and the Yukon were exotic beyond anything the 
population had ever known  
 
Carla Rickerson is the Pacific Northwest Librarian at 
the University of Washington Libraries. 
 
 
Libraries in the Pacific Northwest: what issues are 
we all facing? Panel discussion, Karen  
Hatcher, moderator. 
.State and Provincial Librarians will conduct a 
discussion panel on the challenges facing all  
libraries in the region, from budgets and legislatures 
to technology and training.  
 
Karen Hatcher is Dean of Libraries at the University 
of Montana. 
 
 
Electronic Access to Grantsmanship: finding funding 
on-line. Mardell Moore, presenter. 
 
Mardell will be demonstrating how to find private 
funding from foundations, corporations, and  
individuals, for library projects and overall funding, 
using electronic resources. 
 
Mardell Moore has been a librarian in Seattle Public 
Library's Science and Social Science  
Department for 22 years. 
 
 
3:45-5:15 Copyright and Libraries: an international 
overview of the issues. Panel discussion. 
 
Mary Beth Peters and Paul Whitney will give an 
overview of U.S. and Canadian law and recent  
trends to change it. Adam Eisgrau, who covered the 
recent convention in Geneva on international  
intellectual property rights, and Karen Coyle, a 
systems librarian specializing in copyright issues at  
the University of California, will discuss the 
implications for libraries in this new climate. 
 
Mary Beth Peters has been Register of Copyright for 
the Library of Congress since August, 1994.  
She is trained as a lawyer, with her degree from 
George Washington University Law Center, and  
served as Policy Planning Advisor for the Copyright 
Office before assuming her leadership role.  
Paul Whitney, Chief Librarian at Burnaby Public 
Library, is incoming president of the Canadian  
Librarian Association. In 1996 he appeared before 
the House of Commons Standing Committee  
reviewing substantive revisions to the Copyright 
Act. 
Adam Eisgrau is a congressional liason for the 
American Library Association's Washington D.C.  
office. He previously worked as a Congressional aid 
on Capitol Hill. 
Karen Coyle is librarian in the University of 
California's Library Automation unit, where she  
works on the on-line access system used by libraries 
on the nine UC campuses. She has 20 years  
experience developing computer systems for 
libraries and is outspoken abou the effects, both  
positive and negative, that electronic information is 
having on the social role of libraries.. She  
lectures widely on copyright and library issues. Her 
book, Coyle's Information Highway  
Handbook, will be published by the American 
Library Association in 1997. 
 
5:15-6:15 PNLA Business Meeting, Auditorium. 
 
Come hear the news of the Association and learn of 
the activities of the Interest Groups. 
 
 
7 p.m. CANS brewery tour 
 
Come tour the Pike's Brewery; visit the brewery 
musuem; and quaff a few with your colleagues.  
CANS across the Border, PNLA's most popular 
interest group, invites you to join in this most  
hallowed annual event. See the "What to Do" 
supplement for information on getting to Pike Place  
Market--it's a 10-minute walk from the hotels or 
Conference Center. Tickets are $5 for a five-beer  
sampler.  
 
 
Saturday, August 9 
 
Tour some of the local libraries, public or academic, 
or take a plane ride, visit underground Seattle, or  
poke around the bookstores. Information and sign-
ups will be available via the registration form or  
registration desk. 
 
9-12 noon. PNLA Board Meeting. 
	    Seattle Public Library 
 
9:30-11 tour of the downtown Seattle Public 
Library, Fourth and Marion Streets. Tour starts at 
the  
Information Desk on the ground floor. See "What to 
Do" supplement for bus information. 
 
9:30-11 tour of the University of Washington 
Libraries. Tour starts at the Allen Library's 
Information  
Desk. Travel information available at the registration 
desk, or see the "What to Do" supplement to this  
program. 
 
1-3 p.m. Tour of Microsoft. Buses leave from the 
Warwick at 12:15. There will be a $7 charge for 
buses;  
please see the regisration form. Buses return to the 
Warwick about 3:45. Tour limited to 150. 
 
 
 
 
Hotels: 
 
Warwick Hotel and Claremont Hotel, both on 4th 
Avenue, between Lenora and Virginia, close to  
downtown, destination of the airport Grayliner 
Airport Express bus. Bus service can take you to the  
conference center (or it's a nice, 10-minute walk). 
 
Warwick: 1-800-426-9280 (health club/pool in 
basement, step-out balconies, 50's decor) 
$122/single or double. 
 
Claremont: 1-800-448-8601 (newly redecorated in 
classical decor, free paper and Continental breakfast) 
$109/single, $119/double 
 
Getting to the Conference: 
 
The Grayliner Airporter bus leaves every half hour 
from the baggage claim 
level of the SeaTac airport. It costs $7.50 one way 
or $13 for a round 
trip. It takes you directly to the Warwick. The 
Claremont hotel is next 
door to the south. It will pick you up and return you 
to the airport 7 
days a week.  
 
There is a parking lot between the Warwick and the 
Claremont, on 4th 
Avenue, between Virginia and Lenora. If you are 
driving: 
 
Coming from the north on Highway 5, take the 
Stewart Street exit. Drive to 
Fourth, turn right (north) and after you cross 
Virginia look to your right 
for the parking garage, between the two hotels. 
Coming from the south, 
take the Seneca Street exit, go right (north) on 
Fourth and follow it up 
to Virginia to the parking garage. The Warwick 
charges $12/night. The 
Claremont charges $15.20 per night for the use of 
the garage.  
  
>From the hotel, the Conference Center can be 
reached on foot, walking down 
to First and Bell (to the north) and taking the 
pedestrian overpass down 
to the waterfront. You can also take the scenic (and 
longer) route by 
going through the Pike Place Market down to the 
waterfront and walking 
north about 8 minutes. There will also be shuttle 
buses stopping outside 
the Warwick morings and evenings, including 
Wednesday evening.