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Welcome to the 2016 MLA Annual Conference! MLA looks forward to celebrating its 125th Anniversary with you.
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Friday, September 30 • 3:50pm - 4:50pm
Looking Back to Move Forward: 'What I Wish I Had Learned in Library School'

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Are you a librarian just starting to move forward with your career? Or are you a veteran willing to share your hard earned "in-the-trenches" knowledge? Join us in this entertaining session as we look back at our own education and career: regrets, mistakes, and also successes. What surprised us on entering the field? What do we wish we had learned? What does the constantly evolving profession need from us? Join us as we play "Jeopardy" with our panel of experienced librarians: We will give you tricks from our toolbox to help you better serve the public, manage a successful career, and negotiate the web of relationships that working within a public system involves. We will provide time to share your own tips and techniques. Working together we can use what we've learned collectively to help our profession move towards the future.
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Mary Healy, Branch Manager, Anoka County Library

Mary Healy was working part-time as a library clerk at the Hopkins Library in 2003 when the sentence, "You'd make a great children's librarian, Mary" encouraged her to take the step of leaving a 9 year career as a naturalist to leap Into the unknown world of library science. After... Read More →
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Jill Smith, Director, Bayport Public Library

Jill Smith is the director of the Bayport Public Library. She has worked in public libraries for over 20 years in many different roles. She completed her MLIS in 2001 at the University of North Texas. In the library world her two favorite things are eBooks and baby storytime.
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Matt Youngbauer, Library Associate, Anoka County Library

Matt Youngbauer is a Library Associate at the Centennial branch in Anoka County, where he focuses on Youth Services and is co-chair of the Early Literacy Team. In previous lives he's been a bookseller, bookstore manager, magician, leader of Red Balloon's Guys Read program, janitor... Read More →
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Reagen Thalacker, Regional Librarian, SELCO

Reagen wants to live in a world filled with unlimited library funds, books that come bundled with salted caramel hot chocolate, and a personal teleportation device which guarantees that she can travel as much as she'd like without the time spent getting there. As a librarian with... Read More →

Friday September 30, 2016 3:50pm - 4:50pm CDT
Lake Superior Ballroom MN
  Administration and Leadership

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