MUG 2022
Schedule: October 6th and 7th
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Registration is required.
Schedule for Thursday, October 6th
| Time | Session | Room |
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11:30 - 12:30 |
Lunch |
Meyer Ballroom
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1:00 - 2:30
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Banned Books and Beyond 2021-2022 saw the biggest surge of challenges since the founding of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom in 1967. Who is behind the challenges? What is being challenged? How are they doing it? Why? Join Jamie LaRue, Executive Director of the Garfield County Libraries, and former director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, to assess where we stand today. Presenter: Jamie Larue, Garfield County Public Library District |
Meyer Ballroom
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2:30 - 3:00 |
Break |
Meyer Ballroom |
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3:00 - 3:45 |
Opening session – Welcome, Marmot Updates, Annual Update. Presenter: Adam Murray, Marmot Library Network
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Meyer Ballroom East/West Room 235 |
| 3:55 - 4:30 |
Sierra Passwords Implementation Plan This session will provide a status update on the current state of the Sierra passwords project. We will discuss the actions taken by the PSA committee and the current tasks being performed by the Sierra Passwords Task Force. Presenter: Brandon Cole, Marmot Library Network |
Meyer Ballroom East/West Room 235 |
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5:30 - 7:30
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MUG Dinner Register when you fill out the main registration form |
Meyer Ballroom Lounge Room 236 |
Schedule for Friday, October 7th
| Time | Session | Room |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 |
Lightning Round for Digital Archives
An Archive Project Lightning Round, but one that focuses on the questions posed by directors in a survey provided by Brandon at the last meeting. Emphasis will be on presenting projects that demonstrate the human effort and other resources necessary to make these collections available and preserved. A more formal description will be forthcoming once we get volunteers from the committee.
Audience: Digital Archive Staff, Front Desk Staff, Managers, and Directors.
Skill level: Beginner - Advanced
Presenters: Noel Kalenian, Mesa County Public Library District & John Major, Bud Werner Memorial Library
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Meyer Ballroom West Room 235 |
| 8:00 – 9:00 |
Reading Video Games as Literature
Do video games belong in the library? Shayne will discuss how, at his library, he is merging play and critical analysis through hosting a monthly video game club for adults in which they explore video games as audiovisual ludonarrative texts. They consider play, story, visual grammar, and aural design as they contribute to multimodal literacy. Through this lens, we see how games are situated adjacent to literature and film canon.
Shayne will provide examples of video games (e.g., Bioshock as an exploration of the philosophies in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Bloodborne as an expanded retelling of HP Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth, and Hades as the first video game to win a Hugo Award) to illustrate the interaction between video games and literature. Using the example(s), he will dissect "audiovisual ludonarrativity" as a means to understand the message or theme of a video game in order for attendees to have a greater understanding of the elements at work in video games, how to discuss them academically, and better make a case for video games in libraries.
Shayne will share experiences hosting a discussion-based video game club in order to provide framework for including video games in programming and collections at your library.
Audience: General Audience
Skill level: No skill level is necessary
Presenter: Shayne Taylor, Summit County Library
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Meyer Ballroom East Room 235
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| 9:10 – 10:10 |
An Introduction to Bullet Journaling
Bullet Journaling is a simple and customizable system that helps you track the past, organize the present, and plan for the future. If, like me, you are surrounded by half-finished tasks, and drowning in scraps of paper this might be a good method for you! The beauty of this system is you choose what is important to you: Weekly/daily/monthly planner Long term future planning Goals and intentions Habit tracker Event planning Notes you can easily find To do lists Books you'd like to read Funny things your kids say Whatever you would like to keep track of!
Audience: General Audience
Skill level: No skill level is necessary
Presenter: Michaela Wilson, Pine River Library
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Meyer Ballroom West Room 235 |
| 9:10 - 10:00 |
Keeping Up with the Flow: Electronic Resources Workflow Management Tool at Colorado Mesa University Managing electronic resources is often a multistep process requiring collaboration between various library staff. The Electronic Resource & Acquisitions Librarian identified common communication issues during the electronic resource lifecycle and collaborated to design a tool to handle work more efficiently...which has resulted in an increase in electronic resources through the discovery system. Audience: Technical services staff in academic libraries |
Meyer Ballroom East Room 235 |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Break |
Meyer Ballroom Lounge Room 236 |
| 10:10 - 11:30 |
Round Table Discussions COVID has left us all a little disconnected. Here is a chance to get to know other Marmot members as well as the Marmot staff for some Round Table Discussions. Feel free to join the round table discussions at any time. Don’t want to join the round table discussion, you can just have some snacks and talk with your colleagues or other Marmot members. |
Meyer Ballroom Lounge Room 236 |
| 11:40 - 12:40 |
One Book One Valley - a Community Read
One Book One Valley is a valley-wide Community Read that Vail Public Library has sponsored for over 10 years. This initiative has evolved through the years and I would love to share with other interested librarians our success story, and our challenges, especially navigating a Community Read in a year that we were awarded an NEA Big Read grant and then COVID-19 hit. We are preparing now for year 12. https://onebookonevalley.com/
Audience: General library staff of all library types who may be pondering starting their own Community Read
Skill level: No skill level is necessary Presenter: Lori Barnes, Vail Public Library |
Meyer Ballroom West Room 235 |
| 11:40 - 12:40 |
Tinker Tots: The Need for STEAM in Ages 3 - 6
Did you know STEAM can be taught for all ages?! Tinker Tots in an original program started during COVID and now in-person out of Summit County Libraries. Running once per month, patrons and their little ones partake in step-by-step science projects, crafts, color theory, experiments, and more. Come learn how to teach some of our smallest patrons some of the coolest things!
Audience: General Staff, Programming Librarians, Children Librarians
Skill level: No skill level is necessary
Presenter: Genevieve Brusilow, Summit County Library
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Meyer Ballroom East Room 235 |
| 12:45 p.m. | Thanks for coming and have a safe trip home! |
MUG Location:
Colorado Mesa University Center
1455 N 12th St, Grand Junction, CO 81501
Parking:
- Here is the parking map
- Here is the campus map
- The parking pass and parking instructions will be sent to anyone who registers.
- This information will be sent out on Monday, September 26th.
- Registration Form
- Attendees will need to register to attend MUG 2022
- Please register by or before Friday, September 23rd.
- You will receive a confirmation email once you register, but more information will not go out until Monday, September 26th.
Name tags:
- Marmot will be supplying name tags for anyone who has registered for MUG
Attending Lunch:
- Lunch will be provided by Marmot on Thursday, October 6th from 11:30 am-12:30 pm
- Lunch will be in the Lounge Room 236
- Register when you fill out the main registration form
Attending Dinner:
- Dinner will be provided by Marmot on Thursday, October 6th from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
- Dinner will be in the Lounge Room 236
- Register when you fill out the main registration form
Hotel Accommodations:
- Hotel Maverick| 840 KENNEDY AVE | GRAND JUNCTION, CO 81501| 970-822-4888
- Check-in time: 4 pm
- Check-out time: 11 am
- Room reservations expired on August 6th. If you still need a room, please contact Tammy at tammy-at-marmot.org.