All Sessions

Yogi or not, join us for Think Fit Yoga!!

Benefit from this strength building, body balancing workout before the morning’s meetings. Certified instructors will guide you through the 60 minute course on the beautiful California Terrace of the Convention Center. Registered “yogi’s” will enjoy an event yoga mat, beverages, and refreshment bar! To register go to the “ticketed events” section of your registration page, and sign up for only $15.

Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast: Come enjoy a hot breakfast, the company of collegues, the latest news from Alexander Street, and a special guest speaker worth getting up early for! Invitation only, please.

Celebrate Kadir Nelson, Shane W. Evans, and Ashley Bryan at the 2012 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Breakfast honoring the year's best African American authors and illustrators of books for youth. Individual tickets may be purchased for $50 each prior to the Early-Bird Registration deadline of May 13, 2012, and for $60 between May 14 and June 15, 2012. Tables may be reserved by purchasing 10, 20, 30, or 40 individual tickets for $50 each prior to May 13, 2012. All ticket sales will end on June 15—tickets will NOT be available from the registration desk.

Join OCLC and your colleagues for breakfast, and an update on OCLC activities from Jay Jordan, President and CEO. Then, share a roundtable conversation with colleagues who share your interests, hosted by OCLC staff.

Spectrum Institute Breakfast

Behavioral economist and bestselling author Dan Ariely takes a groundbreaking look at the way we behave, examining the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in his forthcoming book “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves.”

When we make decisions we think we're in control. But are we? From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders’ extra-marital affairs to the Ponzi schemes undermining our economy, cheating and dishonesty are ubiquitous parts of our national news cycle—and inescapable parts of the human condition. Drawing on original experiments and research, in the vein of Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Survival of the Sickest, Ariely reveals—honestly—what motivates these irrational, but entirely human, behaviors.

Ariely is the New York Times bestselling author of “Predictably Irrational” and “The Upside of Irrationality” which he says “are my attempt to take my research findings and describe them in non academic terms so that more people will learn about this type of research, discover the excitement of behavioral economics, and possibly use some of the insights to enrich their own lives.” He is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, with appointments at the Fuqua School of Business, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Department of Economics. He has also held a visiting professorship at MIT’s Media Lab. He has appeared on CNN and CNBC, and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s Marketplace. More about Dan Ariely

Scrabylon is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed documentary on the cutthroat world of tournament SCRABBLE®. Featuring the most fierce anagrammers, rack balancers, and bingo experts in competitive SCRABBLE®, Scrabylon delves deep into this sometimes wacky, sometimes odd, always compelling subculture. Shot primarily during the World SCRABBLE® Championships in Las Vegas, Scrabylon features players from around the globe and gives an up-close look at why people get so obsessed with that seemingly benign game played at countless kitchen tables. The glue between all these players is John D. Williams, Jr., the Executive Director of the National SCRABBLE® Association, who describes in great detail the quirks, strategies and personalities of this fascinating group of individuals.
Preview: www.Scrabylon.com
Running time: 50 minutes

Open meeting of ACRL Instruction Section Advisory Council and orientation session for all incoming committee chairs and officers.

All CLS Committee meetings.

All DLS committees will meet to discuss projects and review strategic planning for committee activities. Feel welcome to join us to explore the section!

All member breakfast, section business meeting, welcome of new members and officers, continuing education activities.

All-Committee Meeting of RUSA MARS, Emerging Technologies in Reference Section

Library User Group