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Technology Tapas - Mobile Technologies: Trends and Tools
Memo Cordova - Room 201

This presentation will explore mobile computing trends and applications. Bring your mobile phone and be ready to play, experiment, and augment your professional, educational, and personal reality via a mobile computing system that happens to have phone capabilities.

Memo Cordova is an Assistant Professor/Librarian at Boise State University’s Albertsons Library, and an avid user of mobile technologies, explorer of free online tools, and a member of SPLAT.

Book Bites - Bookclubs for Homeschooled Kids
Kimbre Chapman and Jennifer Riebe - Room 105

Creating great bookclubs for homeschool kids. Information on other specialized bookclubs will be included.

Kimbre Chapman has run the Children’s Department at the Caldwell Public Library for four years. Since she’s been in Caldwell, the Library has added numerous outreach and in house programs, including programming and resources for families who homeschool. The program R Club Bookclub is in its third year with two clubs running concurrently for ages 8-14. She received her MLS from Florida State University in 2006.

Jennifer Riebe has a BS in Horticulture and MS in Entomology from the University of WI. Before homeschooling her two sons, she worked in agriculture, training growers to use novel new methods of pest control. She decided to devote herself to homeschooling after the company she worked for, NatureMark Potatoes in Boise (a subsidiary of Monsanto Co.), shut down. She currently teaches science and geography for a local homeschooling co-op and facilitates the 8 - 10 year-olds division of the homeschoolers' bookclub at the Caldwell Public Library.

Networking Nibbles - Pursuing an MLIS Degree – First Steps!
Shirley Biladeau - Room 106

Learn from those who have taken the plunge to earn their MLIS. Several students who are currently working on their MLIS through University of North Texas will share their challenges and successes in balancing school, work and personal life.

Shirley Biladeau has been the Continuing Education Consultant with ICFL since 2008. She earned her MLIS from Texas Woman’s University in 2008. Former life experiences include teaching grades 8-12, writer/editor, and technical services for Raymond Library at Yakima Valley Community College.

Colleen Bonnell has worked 20 years professional in libraries. She has a degree in business administration and worked in retail before library work. Six years ago she accepted the position for library Director at the Payette Public Library. She has wanted to pursue her education and get an MLS since she started working in libraries. This will be a challenging year between school, working, and building a new library in Payette.

Kristi Brumley is a department specialist at the Collister Branch of he Boise Public Library. She grew up in Montana and later moved in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Peace Corps and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian for eight years. Brumley is currently working on her Master's degree in Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas. Brumley is also the recipient of the ILA sponsored 2011 ALA Emerging Leaders Program. In her free time she volunteers as a grant writer, editor and designer of an exhibit at the Idaho Historical Museum entitled Idaho Celebrates 50 Years of Peace Corps Service.

Fiona May has worked as a library assistant in the Youth Services division at Boise Public Library for 4 years. In fall of 2009, she started working toward her Master's in Library Science at the University of North Texas. She has a BA from UC Berkeley, and an MS from U. Wisconsin - Madison, both in Psychology. In the intervening 20 years she homeschooled her two kids, the older of whom is graduating this spring.

Lizzy Walker earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature and Writing from Boise State University. She is currently working on her MLIS degree with UNT's SWIM cohort, and is enjoying every minute of it. Lizzy also co-edits ILA's The Idaho Librarian with Kim Leeder. She is employed with the Boise State Unitersity Albertsons Library digital repository, ScholarWorks. She lives in Boise with her husband, Arthur, and their guinea pig, Anders, as well as a large number of bettas and aquatic frogs. In her spare time she enjoys horror films, editing her husband's writing projects, gardening, and Victorian literature.

Community Kitchen - Transforming Life After 50
Sue Walker and Erica Compton - Room 107

17 Idaho library staff have been selected as Fellows in the Transforming Life after 50 Western Regional Fellowship. The presentation will provide an overview of the program, introduce Idaho’s participating library staff, and begin the discussion on a
statewide plan to collaboratively develop library services for Idaho’s citizens 50 and older.

Erica Compton has been a Project Coordinator with ICFL since February 2010. She has her degree in Elementary Education with certification in Special Education and spent 12 years teaching in non-traditional settings – severely emotionally disturbed, gifted, after-school science and engineering centers.

Sue Walker is a Library Consultant at ICFL working with underserved populations. In addition to working with the Talking Book Service, she has also worked with teen programs and is now participating in Transforming Life After 50, which focuses on programs and services for mid-life adults.

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