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7:00am EST

VAASL Board Meeting and Breakfast Terrace Dining Room

8:00am EST

Exibitor Grand Opening, Ribbon Cutting and Continental Breakfast Presidents Ballroom

9:00am EST

Your New Best Collaborative Partners -- BYOD Room 17 Charleston Strong From Tragedy to Unity: Civil Rights Resources for Children and Teens Room 3 If you Give Librarians a Book... Room 15 Are you a MALiA member? Come learn about the opportunities for you and your library -- BYOD Room 12 Creative, Fun, and Easy Ways to Draw Students into the Library Room 11 Libraries, They Are a Changin'! -- BYOD Room 16 Graphic Novels--Comic Books or Legit Reading? Room 8 How Google Works: Are Search Engines Really Dumb and Should Teachers-Librarians Care? Room H Making Digital History: New Online Primary Source Collections at the Library of Virginia -- BYOD Room 18 Battle of the Books - Virginia style Central Lounge Master the art of reading with a year of picture book award programs Room D The Librarian and the Music Teacher Room A AASL Best Websites for Teaching and Learning of 2015 -- BYOD Amphitheatre Library Click! Four Interactive Tools to Add a Little Heart and Soul to your Library Website Room 2 VAASL Presents, Create and Utilize a Twitter Account (Repeat F06) -- BYOD Room F Exhibit Hall Open Presidents Ballroom

10:00am EST

I Can Fix That! Room A Follett eBooks: Make the Classroom Connection! (Repeat S39) Room 12 100+ NEW Titles for Young Adults (Repeat F31) Amphitheatre Book Talks with Special Education Students Central Lounge Pairing Literature and Primary Sources (Repeat S36) Room 17 Use Fiction to Enrich your School's Anti-Bullying Program (Repeat F39) Room H Expand your Library Walls Room 8 Assimilating to Tribal Culture: Getting Boys in your Library Room 11 Making the 2015 Elementary Connection: What's New in Children's Literature that Correlates with the K-5 SOLs Room 18 Creating a Culture of Reading in Middle School (Repeat S34) Room 2 Change is Good....When You Have the Right Attitude Room 15 Heading to the Edge: 21st Century Library Program -- BYOD Room 16 Augmented Reality Room 3 AIM Here! How to Find Free Accessible Instructional Materials For Students with Disabilities Using AIM-VA Room F Lightning-Fast Tech Tools: Awesome Results in One Lesson or Less! Room D

11:00am EST

General Session and Keynote Address Auditorium

1:45pm EST

Urban Fiction: Not Just for Cities Room 15 We Need (more) Diverse Books! -- BYOD Room 16 Children's Literature and Pop Culture Amphitheatre Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Using Question Formulation Technique (QFT) in the Library to Jump Start Research Room D Still fighting the Google Battle? Learn how to help your students make safe, reliable Curriculum Connections with Proquest, ELibrary and SIRS! (Repeat F04) Room A Text Support for the Pursuit of Essential Questions -- BYOD Central Lounge Writing with Light Room 3 Duck Duck Go: The Alternative to Google Room H Google Classroom in the Library -- BYOD Room 17 How Easy is your Access? Room F Reading with a Purpose -- BYOD Room 12 From Story to STEM (Repeat S14) Room 11 How to Host a 'Hootin' Hollerin' Poetry Slam' Room 8 Can You Dig It? Minecraft in the Classroom (Repeat S03) -- BYOD Room 18 Simple and Creative Uses for Today's Technology Tools Room 2

2:45pm EST

All the News that's Fit to Print Room 8 Urban Edgy and Marginal: the YA Underground Room 3 Creating Multimedia Learning Stations to Integrate Content & Skills Room H Song of the Season Storytime -- BYOD Room 12 If You Build It, They Will Read: Implementing a Silent Sustained Reading Program at the Secondary Level Room F Natural Disasters in Children’s Literature: Cautionary Tales of Choices and Changes Central Lounge Makerspaces: A Visual Collection Room 11 Creating Cutting Edge Virginia Readers Choice Programs at the Middle and High School Level Room D Empower your Middle School Students With Your Virginia Readers' Choice Program! -- BYOD Room 2 Learning 4 Life (L4L) in the Library (Repeat S23) -- BYOD Amphitheatre Mentoring Madness! How Henrico Librarians Support their Newbies -- BYOD Room A Create, Engage and Assess with Educreations -- BYOD Room 16 The 20% Lab: Turn Your Library into a Year-long Project-Based Learning Lab -- BYOD Room 18 My Library Is NOT Perfect -- BYOD Room 17 Collaborating with your Public Library Room 15

3:45pm EST

Reorganize Your Library in Three Easy Steps Room 2 An Adult Edge Room H New Release Books Your Students Will Love (Elementary Edition)! Room 11 Reading Makes Cent$: Featuring Uncle Jed, Tía Isa, and Helen Keller (Repeat S17) Central Lounge Celebrate Seuss (Repeat F05) Room 8 Understanding the Dynamics of The 21st Century Minority Student Room A Harness the power of Google’s reach and popularity using your current Gale resources! Room 3 S.T.R.E.A.M. Line your Library! Room F A Year in the Life of a High School Library Media Center Room D You Are Here: Personal Geography and Maps as Story Starters -- BYOD Room 12 On the Edge with the Top Ten Topics and Trends for 2015 (Repeat S08) Amphitheatre

4:30pm EST

Reception/Author Celebration (Ticketed Event) Presidents Ballroom

6:30pm EST

Longwood Alumni Gathering Room 18 ODU Alumni Gathering Room 11 OTHER Alumni Gathering Room 17 Radford Alumni Gathering Room 16