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LITERACIES AND OUR FUTUREMarch 4-5, 2012
We have moved our venue to the Hyannis Resort and Conference Center. You will enjoy this lovely facility and all the amenities it has to offer. The hotel is ready to take your reservations. Single/double room rates are $105 single/double plus 11.7% MA occupancy tax. Just call the Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis Group Reservations Office at (866) 828-9111 or (508) 775-7775 and say you are attending Massachusetts School Library Association Conference on March 4 and 5, 2012. Our program is packed with the hottest names in our profession. Sunday's featured speakers are two of the most highly regarded authorities on school libraries and technology, Ross Todd and Alan November. Author and motivational speaker Tim Green will speak at lunch, and AASL President-Elect Susan Ballard will be our dinner speaker. After dinner, Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid will speak and sign books. Sunday's program will include an Author Meet & Greet, Exhibit Hall Opening Reception, and the MSLA awards. On Monday, we'll feature school library greats Joyce Valenza, Chris Harris and Buffy Hamilton, 2010 AASL School Library Program of the Year winner Michelle Luhtala, author Jarrett Krosoczka, Karen Brennan of MIT's Scratch project, and Universal Design Specialist Lori Cooney, along with many other notable colleagues from our state and region. A first on Monday will be the public judging and announcement of the winners of MSLA's annual and ever-popular Bookmark Contest.We'll have a whole batch of different authors for you to meet and greet on Monday, and we'll end the day with a block-buster panel discussion with our featured speakers on the Future of School Libraries. This is the best professional development opportunity of the year for anyone who supports, works in or with school libraries. We hope you'll say you'll to join us! |
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