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10:45am EDT

Less But Better: Rethinking What Matters in Your Library Life

Thursday April 17, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT

Tired of trying to do it all? Join us as we explore how to focus on what really matters in your library work. Through trivia, teamwork, and real talk, you'll learn to ditch the busywork, prioritize the impactful, and walk away ready to work smarter, not harder!

Speakers

Kate Tompkins

Brooke Fry

Thursday April 17, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Cattails C

Plenary Session, Skill-Building Workshop

1:30pm EDT

Connecting through Gaming: Fostering Collaborations among Librarians through Bingo!

Thursday April 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT

Cattails C

In this hands-on session, participants will work together to design a collaborative, team-building library bingo game that can be modified to suit the needs of an individual library or department within the library. Session participants will walk away with customizable templates, instructions, and experience creating a low-cost, reusable game.

Speakers

Alejandra Mendez

Coordinator of Library Services, Lowell Campus, Middlesex Community College

I am an academic librarian, and education researcher. My areas of interest are information literacy education, information and algorithmic bias, critical curriculum theory, and video game scholarship.

Kim Money Priddy

Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian, Middlesex Community College

Thursday April 17, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Cattails C

Make/Hack/Play