UNT Department of Library and Information Sciences is pleased to announce that members of the faculty will be making presentations during the 2016 Texas Library Conference to be held in Houston, Texas, April 19-22. This state conference is the largest state library conference in the US with some 7,000 to 8,000 attendees yearly. Over 450 companies also exhibit at TLA. The daily sessions are comprised of presentations by noted people in the profession and provides Texas libraries and librarians with the best learning opportunities and resources available. The LIS faculty presentations contain cutting edge topics and each was carefully reviewed and selected by TLA from among its many applicants who desire the distinction of being a selected presenter.
TUESDAY, APRIL 19 ; 3:00 – 3:50 pm
Presenters: Ana Cleveland, Ph.D., Regents Professor, Alma Chavarria, Kathleen Hobson, Melanie Pang
Title: Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce
The speakers offer practical suggestions to library managers for creating a more inclusive work environment. Managers will learn recruitment strategies to help diversify their work force and how inclusive environments improve employee retention.
Tuesday, April 19 ; 3:00 – 3:50 pm
Presenter: Daniella Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Title: Increasing Engagement: Designing Interactive Videos for Online Learning
Do you want to go beyond simply providing videos – consider interactivity to make them more engaging. This session is suitable for academic, school, and public librarians that want to develop interactive videos for online lessons. The presenter will identify best practices for creating videos, Web 2.0 tools that make videos interactive, and offer economical suggestions for hosting videos.
Thursday, April 21 ; 1:00 – 1:50 pm
Title:Self-Reflection for Improvement: Building Resiliency and Leadership Skills
Have you been looking for a way to improve your leadership skills? Have you reflected on your leadership and resiliency behaviors lately? The first one hundred (100) conference attendees that indicate interest in the session at least two weeks prior to the conference will be given access to take the Leadership Practices Inventory- Self and the Resiliency Scale assessment for free and receive their personalized score reports. Score reports will be sent online before the session begins to allow attendees to review them. During the session the presenter will provide an overview of transformational leadership domains with examples and discuss the characteristics of resiliency to assist attendees with understanding their scores and improving their skills. This session is suitable for librarians practicing in all settings.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 ; 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Presenter: Dr. Jiangping Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Title: Multilingual Information Access to Digital Collections
This presentation will discuss the possible ways that libraries can apply the latest machine translation and other computational technologies to implement new services for their digital collections. The research has been funded by the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) since 2010. She will discuss some of the relevant content from two projects and a new book on multilingual service and access to digital collections, including the need of non-English users, online MT services and their performance, design and implementation strategies for adding cross-language search service to digital collections, and involving users in improving multilingual information access services.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21 ; 10:00 - 11:20 am
Presenters: Yvonne Chandler, Ph.D., Associate Professor with Curtis King and Morgan Gieringer
Title: Opening the Curtain: Behind the Scenes of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Archive
UNT Libraries and The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in Dallas are partnering to preserve and promote African American cultural history, including costumes, videos, scripts, playbills, music, and pictures. This project aims to engage students of all ages. Learn about the development of a true digital archive and plans for fundraising, digitization, and outreach.
THURSDAY, APRIL, 21 ; 1:00 – 1:50 pm
Presenter: Michele Lucero Villagran, Ed.D., Lecturer
Title: Social Networking in Organizational Cultures
What are the societal impacts on organizational culture, leadership effectiveness, and communication quality for both internal and external audiences? This interactive workshop will challenge participants to analyze best practices in organizational culture communication strategies focusing not only on the tools used, but also the trickle-down impact that the communication has on leadership, employees, clientele, and public perception. Both sides of the coin will be examined to understand the benefits and the challenges that come with utilizing social networking.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22 ; 10:00 -10:50 am
Presenter: Michele Lucero Villagran, Ed.D, Lecturer, Certified in CQ
Title: Cultural Intelligence: Ability to Adapt to New Cultural Settings
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a person’s capability for successful adaptation to new cultural settings, that is, for unfamiliar settings attributable to cultural context (Earley & Ang). It is only recently that cultural intelligence has surfaced as an element that can increase job performance, personal well-being, and profitability. Cultural intelligence isn’t specific to a particular culture – rather it focuses on the capability to function effectively in culturally diverse situations. This program will discuss an overview of cultural intelligence, its four capabilities, how it may be applied within the information profession, and how to improve upon your own CQ.