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Exploratorium 2012: Schedule

Our annual Spring Conference is now an Exploratorium! Join us on Wednesday, May 16th at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the NYPL Schwarzman Building at 42nd and Fifth Avenue.

Draft Schedule

Time

Bartos

Forum

Bartos

Food

NYPL

Tours

Computer

Lab

Berger

Forum

Trustees

 Room

South Court Auditorium

 

8:00-8:30

 

Registration

 

Breakfast

 

Available

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30-9:00

 

Welcome

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00-9:30

 

Summer Reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:00

 

 

Exploratorium I

 

Library Building Tour

NOVELny Training  Michael Santangelo, BPL

An Introduction to Text Complexity and Depth of Knowledge Lauren Mace

PANEL - The Common Core and the School Librarian: Points of Entry for Collaboration

Olga Nesi

NYCSLS

PRE-REGISTRATION

REQUIRED

Learning with iPad: iBooks, iBooks Author and iTunes U Christine Dowd

Apple

 

10:00-10:30

 

 

Library Building Tour

 

10:30-11:00

 

 

Library Building Tour

 

 

11:00-11:30

 

 

Room 84 Booktalks

Children’s

 

 

 

 

 

LibGuides: Beyond Pathfinders Creating Dynamic Guides Online

 Ginna Nicolas

SpringShare

 

11:30-12:00

 

 

 

Boxed

 

 Lunch

 

Available

Library Building Tour

DOE/Tri-Library Union Catalog Pilot: Phase II

Luke Walker

Bibliocommons

 

 

12:00-12:30

 

 

 

 

 

Unavailable

 

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:00

 

 

Exploratorium II

 

NOVELny Training  Michael Santangelo, BPL

 

 

Digital Literacy and Citizenship: Helping Kids Think Critically, Behave Safely and Participate Responsibly Online

Tali Horowitz

CommonSense Media

 

1:00-1:30

 

Room 84  Booktalks YA

Lower East Side: NYPL Curriculum Guide

Rebecca

Krucoff

 

1:30-2:00

 

 

 

 

2:00-2:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:30-3:00

 

Raffle & Evaluation

Cookies & Tea

 

 

 

 

 

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