Preliminary Conference Schedule - Subject to Change
| Session Day | Session Date | Session Track | Session Time | Session Title |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Teen | 1:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | Crowdsourcing Your Teen Participation with Linda Braun |
| Wednesday | April 28th | User Services | 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | Constitutional Considerations when Dealing with Disruptive Patrons |
| Wednesday | April 28th | User Services | 1:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Black Belt Librarians: Dealing with Difficult Patrons |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Technology | 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | Massachusetts Goes Evergreen |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Technology | 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Keep It Simple Stupid: Free and Easy-to-use Tech Ideas for Your Library |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Technology | 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. | Experts Share Top Technology Trends in Massachusetts |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Special Event | 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Massachusetts Book Awards |
| Wednesday | April 28th | Special Event | 7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. | YSS Annual Gaming Night & Dance Party |
| Thursday | April 29th | Special Event | 8:00 a.m. | Registration begins |
| Thursday | April 29th | Paralibrarian | 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Paralibrarian Section Annual Meeting & Vendor Pow-Wow! |
| Thursday | April 29th | Technical Services | 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | The Extensible Catalog |
| Thursday | April 29th | Youth Services | 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Age Ratings for Visual Media What They Mean and How to use them (wisely!) |
| Thursday | April 29th | User Services | 9:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m. | Innovative Patron Services |
| Thursday | April 29th | Paralibrarian | 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | And the Winner Is Paralibrarian Awards and PARA |
| Thursday | April 29th | Technical Services | 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | The Future of Publishing Digital vs Print |
| Thursday | April 29th | Youth Services | 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Kids Tell Their Stories Digitally with Linda Braun |
| Thursday | April 29th | User Services | 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Empowering the User: Self Pick-Up of Holds in the Public Library |
| Thursday | April 29, 2010 | Out of Track | 11:45am-12:45pm | Buffet Lunch and State of the State |
| Thursday | April 29th | Special Event | 12:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Exhibits Open |
| Thursday | April 29th | Paralibrarian | 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Outa'Site Not Outa'Mind Reinventing the Meeting |
| Thursday | April 29th | Technical Services | 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Improving Communication Between Technical and Public Services |
| Thursday | April 29th | Youth Services | 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | YSS Annual Author Visit: Cory Doctorow |
| Thursday | April 29th | User Services | 12:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Physical Meets Digital: User-Centered Design at the New York Public Library |
| Thursday | April 29th | Out of Track | 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | The Privacy Policies of Library Vendors Do They Meet Our Standards? |
| Thursday | April 29th | Technical Services | 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Library Stacks Management: System A Practical Approach for Libraries Large and Small |
| Thursday | April 29th | Youth Services | 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Home Schools and the Library How We Can Work Together and Accomplish More + YSS Annual Meeting! |
| Thursday | April 29th | User Services | 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. | Case Study in Real-Time Digital Reference at Public and Academic Libraries |
| Thursday | April 29th | Paralibrarian | 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Massachusetts Book Cart Drill Team State Championships! |
| Thursday | April 29th | Special Event | 6:30pm - 10:30 p.m. | Dinner Trivia and Auction Prepaid Ticket for Dinner Required and or Prepaid Ticket for the Trivia Game Required |
| Friday | April 30th | Special Event | 7:30 a.m. | Registration begins at 730am - Coffee and pastries until 1045am in the Exhibit Hall |
| Friday | April 30th | Special Event | 8:00 a.m. | Exhibits Open 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
| Friday | April 30th | Academic Libraries | 8:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. | Strategic Decision-Making for Your Library Become an Evidence-based Librarian |
| Friday | April 30th | Technology | 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Libraries in the Clouds |
| Friday | April 30th | Books Collections and Readers | 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Behind the Microphone |
| Friday | April 30th | Self-Improvement | 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | The Circulator: a Fun Look at Workflow in the Library |
| Friday | April 30th | Technology | 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | e-Books and Copyright: what the Amazon vs. Publishers Discussion Means for Libraries |
| Friday | April 30th | Books Collections and Readers | 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | The Publisher/Librarian Connection |
| Friday | April 30, 2010 | Out of Track | 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Librarian or Lawyer? : What do YOU tell people when they have a legal question? |
| Friday | April 30th | Special Event | 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. | Business Meeting, Hall of Fame Awards Prepaid Ticket required |
| Friday | April 30th | Academic Libraries | 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Using Rubrics for Library Assessment |
| Friday | April 30th | Technology | 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Sony Readers, Kindles and Nooks, Oh My! The Twisted Path to Circulating e-Book Readers |
| Friday | April 30th | Books Collections and Readers | 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Speed Dating with the Publishers |
| Friday | April 30th | Self-Improvement | 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Re-inventing Yourself and Your Library Career |
| Friday | April 30th | Academic Libraries | 2:45 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. | Print to Digital Academic Libraries Wrestle with Journal Subscriptions |
| Friday | April 30th | Technology | 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Managing Online Life |
| Friday | April 30th | Books Collections and Readers | 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Writing in the Genres: An Author Panel from Three Perspectives |
| Friday | April 30th | Self-Improvement | 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Job Searching 101: Strategies, Resources & Networking for Librarians and Information Professionals |