NLA/MPLA Joint Conference

NLA/MPLA Joint Conference

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7:30am CDT

Information Desk Open La Vista Conference Center

8:00am CDT

Exhibit Floor Open TBA

8:30am CDT

Critical Thinking in the Digital Age: Helping Students Navigate Online Resources Dapper 2 Discovering Stories and Developing Community via Archives Dapper 3 Museum Exhibitions for the Public Library: Bring the experience local! Fedora 2 Opening Up the American Dream: Advocating for Affordable Textbooks for All Students Dapper 1 Pages from the Past: Bringing Local History to Life Through Community Partnership Gatsby Respectful Representation: Honoring Indigenous Art and Culture in Libraries Fedora 1 Strong Boards, Strong Libraries: Governance Skills That Matter Sugarloaf

9:30am CDT

AI Perspectives; or, A Luddite And A Tech Bro Walk Into A Bar Dapper 1 Best Children's Books of 2026 Fedora 2 Controlled Chaos: The Beautiful Mess of Teen Programming Dapper 3 LEGOs in your Library Fedora 1 Podcasting: How to Develop, Facilitate, and Host a Podcast in an Academic Library Dapper 2 Securing Public Computers Sugarloaf Staff Innovation Grants - watch staff, services, and programs thrive! Gatsby

10:15am CDT

Exhibitor Break TBA

11:30am CDT

NLA Annual Meeting Opening Speaker: Dr. Maria McCauley TBA NLA Annual Meeting TBA

12:30pm CDT

1:30pm CDT

Books, Blocks and Bubbles: Hosting a Young Child Fair for Your Community Sugarloaf Collaboration Station!: How School Libraries and Public Libraries Work Together! Dapper 1 Don’t Panic!: Common Interlibrary Loan Errors and How to Resolve Them Fedora 1 From ‘Meh’ to ‘Heck Yeah!’—Book Talks That Work Dapper 2 Low Cost/No Tech Makerspaces Dapper 3 When I Disagree Becomes I Can’t: Balancing Personal and Professional Ethics Gatsby Bess Streeter Aldrich - Nebraska Hall of Fame Author TBA Experiential Learning in the Archives: The New Mexico Black History Spotlights TBA Jigsaw Puzzling TBA Meet the NLA Candidates TBA Mysteries Await at Your Library – New Books for the 2027 Summer Reading Program TBA New patron opportunities: increasing your out-of-service-area users TBA Shedding Light on Untold Stories and Underrepresented Voices in the Creighton University Archives TBA Small Spaces, Big Impact: Designing Immersive Play Environments for Family Engagement TBA Something's Been Eating the Books: A Practical Approach to Pest Management TBA Threading Tales: Library Engagement through StitchCraft TBA

2:30pm CDT

$$$ Show me the (Library) Money! $$$ Dapper 1 How spicy is too spicy?: Readers Advisory in the ever changing world of romance Dapper 2 NLA Advocacy Committee Updates Gatsby Strategic Planning: A Roadmap for Libraries Sugarloaf Unlocking Nebraska’s Stories: Introducing the Nebraska Literary & History Escape Room Kits Fedora 1 Visual Excel-lence: Using Spreadsheets for Their Graphical Potential Dapper 3

3:30pm CDT

Keynote: Juli Burney TBA

4:15pm CDT

Closing Address TBA