The 2006 Colorado Association of Libraries Conference - A ClassiCAL Celebration of Libraries and Literature - will take place November 9-12, 2006 at the newly-renovated John Q. Hammons Convention Center/Holiday Inn DIA (I-70 & Chambers).
We hope you can join us!
Photos galore! | Program News | Registration | Handouts | Graduate Credit | What are you wearing? | Big Book Bash | Exhibitors | Sponsors | Keynotes & Meal Events | Call for Programs | Small Group Meetings | Info for Sweet Potato Queens & Wannabes | Lodging | Volunteer | Conference Flier 2006 | Sweet Potato Queen Invitation Flier | More
Schedule, Map, and Detail
These documents are all in PDF format.
Conference Workshop Handouts
During or after the 2006 CAL Conference, attendees, presenters and all interested parties may access workshop handouts posted by the presenters. Handouts are arranged alphabetically by workshop title for each day of the conference. (Not every presenter will choose to post their handouts to the conference website.)
Conference Registration is now available onsite!
CAL Onsite Registration Form - (PDF)
University of Colorado Graduate Credit
University of Colorado at Denver will be offering 1-2 credits of graduate credit for attending the CAL conference at $60/per graduate credit. Forms will be available at the conference at the registration area. Attendees will be required to complete a conference session log and reflective project by November 30, 2006 in order to receive credit. View the graduate credit form for more information. Registration questions may be answered by contacting: Hilary Bruce, Business Manager at hilary.bruce@cudenver.edu or 303-556-6030.
The Colorado Association of Libraries thanks the University of Colorado at Denver and Dr. Laura L. Summers of the School Library Program for providing this service to CAL Conference attendees.
Lodging
The conference hotel is currently full.
The newly-renovated Holiday Inn DIA/John Q. Hammons Convention Center is located at 15500 E. 40th Ave., Denver – just 7 minutes from the Denver International Airport.
Volunteer at the Conference
Want to enhance your CAL Conference experience? Meet new people, and have fun, while providing service to your professional association. To see a list of opportunities available, see our volunteer form, then complete and submit the form to volunteer. The volunteer team will contact you soon!
What are you wearing to the conference? We have some suggestions!
Does your CAL group want to meet while you're at the conference? We have two small group meeting times scheduled on Saturday. Submit your request for meeting space by September 15.
Authors: Do you want to participate in our Big Book Bash?
The Big Book Bash is an opportunity for Colorado authors to share their literary works with librarians from around the state. More info...
Exhibitors
Be sure to visit our exhibitors while you're at conference -- make it a priority! Watch for exhibits-only times and special events with the vendors in the exhibit hall.
See who's exhibiting by checking here often!
Information for Exhibitors and Potential Exhibitors
 Chief Morale Officer, Kirk A. Weisler, Agent of Change, Very Nice Guy and Fun too!
Kirk Weisler kicks off our conference on Thursday evening, November 9
Happily Ever After - Giving People a Story to Tell
How Floating Rocks, Flying Cows, Milk & Cookies, and the Largest Man in the World inspired a creative leadership book about Poop, Initiative and another about Mirrors & Meaning. And how with a little deliberate discovery and purposeful reflection we can create more Happy Endings, for more people, more often…in their life stories and our own as well!
Recognized internationally for his demystifying approach to building Effective Teams, creating community, having fun, and creating Great culture with what he calls "Culture Building" Kirk travels around the world, recently returning from Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and Nova Scotia where he spoke with audiences of professionals on things they can do without permission, and without a budget to grow themselves, their people, and create an outrageously cool workplace cultures in the process.
In the low morale, low pay, high turnover world of outsourced call centers with their churn and burn approach to people management, an industry that routinely averages 150-200% annual attrition, a young man who believed that "Work, all work, could Matter" created his own title, started his own revolution and began to make real his vision of what Culture Building could do to make a difference.
It was in this world, that without a budget, without formal authority, and with a title he made up, Kirk would begin his personal cultural revolution to "make work matter and to make Culture Count." Creating an excellent leadership-training program for all managers, driving the development of a full-scale corporate university with a full two-year curriculum, contributing heavily to the creation of over 700 jobs, developed an industry-leading employee recognition program, building an award-winning customer-service quality program. His role as CMO contributed to an attrition rate that was five times less than the industry norm and a 97% referral rate for new hires!
The measurable results of Kirk’s efforts and the curiosity of his Chief Morale Officer title got him invited to share his philosophy and story at a national gathering of Business Professionals 5 years ago. Since that day Kirk has been continually invited to share his evangelical message to audiences around the world...encouraging, inspiring and inviting them to create the culture they want, to take ownership of their environment and to stop having "a job" and start having a life!
He is an expert on creating culture, change, community and connections in the workplace... and considering how vital the "Culture Issue" is to wild and wonderful world of librarians Kirk’s message is one that any organization seeking higher levels of employee involvement, engagements and commitment will want to hear. His passionate and evangelical delivery on what he calls "Culture Building" and Creating Community are needed more now than perhaps anytime in the history of corporate America.
Kirk’s book "THE DOG POOP INITIATIVE" is destined to become a New York Rhymes Best Smeller! This fully illustrated book is both fun and extremely poignant for librarians, parents or anyone who’s working to develop leaders. It’s metaphorical delivered message is humorous and insightful inviting the reader to laugh, reflect, and recommit themselves to be a Scooper, not a Pointer and to raise the bar in their personal and professional life.
"If this wise saying is true..."When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Will Appear" and I believe with all of my heart that it is, and that life is constantly teaching us lessons, and my observation has been that if we aren’t looking to learn from life, then the same lessons will keep repeating themselves until we do."
 Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, John Naisbitt
John Naisbitt speaks on Friday morning, November 10
Since the publication of Megatrends, his first published book in 1982, the future has been in the center of John Naisbitt's field of activity as an author and speaker.
John Naisbitt has become the global philosopher among futurists. With his articulate and inspiring message, Naisbitt today speaks before global corporations and provides counsel to leading politicians in closed circles. It is not only his experience in top management, politics or as an entrepreneur that has shaped John Naisbitt's picture of the future. His cultural life and residence in countries on several continents keep him directly in touch with global conditions, which is reflected in the books he has written.
A former visiting fellow at Harvard University, and former visiting professor at Moscow State University, he is currently a faculty member at the Nanjing University in China, and serves as a Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), in Malaysia - the first non-Asian to hold this appointment. He is the recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology, and science.
John Naisbitt also wrote the international bestsellers Re-inventing the Corporation in 1985, Megatrends 2000 in 1990, and Megatrends for Women in 1992 (co-authored with Patricia Aburdene), as well as Global Paradox, Megatrends Asia, and High Tech High Touch, all published in the 1990s.
Naisbitt's all-new book explains the attitudes and skills anyone can use--from executives to policymakers to citizens--to anticipate the future and respond to the realities of globalization. In recent years, as John Naisbitt gave speeches across all continents and advised political and business leaders across the world, he would be asked with greater and greater frequency: "How do you know what you know? How do you go about making these insights? How can we learn the process?"
In Mind Set!, John Naisbitt reveals how to develop and experience the power of 11 cognitive tools that will allow readers to understand the trends transforming their daily life and the world around them, so they can anticipate and act on the future. In a narrative that is captivating in its scope and reach--ranging from Yao Ming and the NBA to Goethe and Global Domains--Naisbitt liberates readers from the limitations of our routine ways of thinking with a step-by-step program to incorporate these new attitudes of mind and apply them in making decisions.
 Dr. Simpson Wine Seminar
Enologist Dr. Ernie Simpson will cover wine appreciation basics, and we will sample two white, two red, and two dessert award-winning wines with dinner.
Topics to be covered include wine storage, when to consume wine at or near its optimum drinkability, and what foods will pair best with different wine types, as well as potential health benefits of moderate wine consumption.
This event is just $35 with conference registration ($40 without), and includes the seminar, dinner, and wine sampling.
The 2006 speaker for the Julie J. Boucher Memorial Lecture on Intellectual Freedom at the CAL Conference will be Brent Hartinger.
Brent Hartinger's presentation is set for Saturday morning, November 11
The author of several young adult novels, including The Geography Club and The Last Chance Texaco, Hartinger is the founder of a blog for young adult authors, called AS IF!, which stands for Authors Support Intellectual Freedom. You can find out more about Brent Hartinger at: http://www.brenthartinger.com and AS IF! at: http://asifnews.blogspot.com.
This fall the IFC will be creating a blog and asking conference attendees, librarians, and library staff all over the state to read Geography Club and discuss it on the blog.
Brent Hartinger is the author of the frequently-challenged teen novels Geography Club; The Last Chance Texaco; a sequel to Geography Club called The Order of the Poison Oak; and Grand & Humble. Mr. Hartinger's book honors include being named a Book Sense 76 Pick (three times), an IRA Notable Book, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and an InsightOut (Bookspan) Book Club Main Selection. Also a playwright and a screenwriter, Mr. Hartinger has both a stage and screen adaptation of Geography Club in active development, and a stage adaption of Grand & Humble in the works. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, but would much rather you visit him online at www.brenthartinger.com. Explore "Brent's Brain" at http://www.brenthartinger.com
Awards Luncheon
Join us for the annual awards luncheon to show support for your award-winning colleagues! We will honor CAL's 2006 winners at the awards luncheon on Saturday. This event is just $25 with conference registration. We hope you will come!
 A Film of One’s Own: An Evening with the Writer and Director of The Hollywood Librarian, Ann Seidl
Ann Seidl, the writer and director of The Hollywood Librarian, is coming back to Colorado! A 1999 graduate of the University of Denver library school and the opening speaker at CAL 2002, Ann returns to discuss the progress of her documentary film (anticipated release in summer 2007 ) and hold an extensive question-and-answer session. Plus -- advance clips from the final film and a behind-the-scenes look!! Shhhhh...
Ann M. Seidl (MLIS, University of Denver) is a library consultant and the owner and principal of Information, Managed, a library consulting business she founded in 2000. From 1997 to 1999, Seidl served as Associate Director of the Library Research Service at the Colorado State Library in Denver, where she collected, analyzed and published library statistics for Colorado and several other US states.
For nearly seven years, Ms. Seidl has been at work on a documentary called The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film. She began production in February of 2005, and is currently in post-production. Her goal for the documentary is portray the real value of librarians in American society, as well as to surprise and delight the general public, who she feels love their libraries without knowing enough about librarians.
Jill Conner Browne is our Sunday Brunch Keynote Speaker
The fun begins on Sunday morning, November 12, with Jill Conner Browne
"Boss Queen" Jill Conner Browne founded the Sweet Potato Queens in the 1980's. After passing through a patch of the doldrums, she found herself in need of some excitement, and a new direction. Jill discovered that she lived near Verdaman, Mississippi, self-proclaimed Sweet Potato Capital of the World, and inspiration struck. She volunteered to be the queen of the farmers' annual festival. Although the crowning never materialized, the prospect of being queen of anything was too good to pass up; so in 1982 Jill entered herself and a few similarly-inspired friends in Jackson, Mississippi's, St. Patrick's Day Parade (now the fourth largest in the country). The four original queens all wore green, hand-me-down ballgowns and tiaras, and waved to the crowd from the bed of an old pickup truck. It was modest, but it was a start. The Queenly costume has undergone several upgrades since then, and now consists of a sparkly size-24 green-sequined mini dress (stuffed to its voluptuous 40-pound carrying weight), flowing red wigs, Revlon's Love That Pink lipstick, and real-life majorette boots.
Jill is "America's #1 Humor Writer," according to Nielsen BookScan, a retail book sales monitoring service. There are more than 1.9 million copies of Sweet Potato Queens books in print. Jill lives and reigns in Jackson, Mississippi, with her teenage daughter, her mother, and her huband. And no, he's not the Sweet Potato King.
Come to brunch Sunday, November 12, 2006, to hear Jill's presentation. Brunch begins at 10:30 a.m., presentation at 11 a.m., followed by booksigning and photographs. Ticket price is $40, or $20 if you are also registering for the conference. CAL library conference attendees should purchase their tickets with their conference registration instead of using this link. Buy tickets now by clicking here.
Photo by Tom Joynt (c)2004 by SPQ, Inc.
More information about the conference is coming soon, so check back often!
Derek Wolfgram and Glenda Hawkinson, 2006 Conference Chairs
Link to 2005 Conference page
Last update: November 9, 2006
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