2025 AZLA Conference Schedule

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Sessions and Tours

Friday, October 24, 2025	AZLA Service Awards Lunch
Friday, October 24, 2025	Mastering the Art of Storytime: Training Presenters for Success
Friday, October 24, 2025	Partnerships are Power
Friday, October 24, 2025	Open Scholarship Champions: Promoting open scholarship among librarians and beyond
Friday, October 24, 2025	Science Across Generations: Engaging All Ages Through Citizen Science at the Library
Friday, October 24, 2025	The Tastiest Chapter: Build a Thriving Edible Education Program
Friday, October 24, 2025	Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Round Table
Friday, October 24, 2025	Inmate Letters: Providing Reference to Those Who Are Incarcerated
Friday, October 24, 2025	Lift-Off with LSTA!
Friday, October 24, 2025	A Roll of the Dice: Starting a D&D Program at Your Library
Friday, October 24, 2025	ACE-ing Banned Books Week: Advocacy, Community, and Empowerment
Friday, October 24, 2025	Bring Books to Life Through Art Projects: A Hands-on Experience
Friday, October 24, 2025	Data-Driven Libraries: Analyzing Incident and Computer Usage Reports with R and Posit
Friday, October 24, 2025	Regional Representatives Round Table
Friday, October 24, 2025	Ethical Approaches to Digital Archiving for Indigenous Communities
Friday, October 24, 2025	Twentieth Century Postcards: Travel Logs before Travel Blogs
Friday, October 24, 2025	Booked and Hooked: Unlocking Adolescent Reading Engagement
Friday, October 24, 2025	Law for Librarians: Introduction to Legal Literacy for Library Workers
Friday, October 24, 2025	Arizona Literacy Plan 2030 and Literacy is the Key campaign.
Friday, October 24, 2025	When Friends Become Frenemies: Navigating the Wild World of Rogue Friends Groups & How to Survive It
Friday, October 24, 2025	Books, Bubbles & Belonging: How to Make Story Time Unforgettable by Creating Engaging, Inclusive Library Story Times Targeted Toward Preschool to 1st Grade but Fun for the Whole Family!
Friday, October 24, 2025	Securing the Digital Gateway: Cybersecurity Awareness for Libraries
Friday, October 24, 2025	Paint And Pop: A Low-Prep, High-Impact Art Program for Tweens and Teens
Friday, October 24, 2025	Braille - Accessibility through Audiobook Labels
Friday, October 24, 2025	Collaborating to Improve Community Health & Wellbeing: One Program at a Time
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Growing Readers, Growing Community: Cultivating Literacy and Connection in the Children’s Peace Garden
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Plot Twist: College Students Actually DO Read
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Libraries Outside of the Box: Serving Pima County with a Bus, Mail, and Giving Books Away
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Let's Roll!: A Newb's Guide to Having a Tween TTRPG Club at Your Library
Thursday, October 23, 2025	From Wiggles to Wonder: Managing Behavior in Storytime Spaces
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Growing a collaborative and sustainable instruction community with the UA Libraries Teaching Tools Hub
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Storytelling with Strategy: Connecting Online Audiences to Library Services
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Advocacy Round Table
Thursday, October 23, 2025	What to expect from the library while you’re expecting! How a Family Friendly Prenatal Storytime Program Empowered a Community of New Parents and Welcomed them into the library
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Get Out(reach) of the Library!
Thursday, October 23, 2025	What is Blooming at the San Carlos Community and Apache College Library?
Thursday, October 23, 2025	You had me at AR: Augmenting Library Services from programming to training and more!
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Professional Development Committee Round Table
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Navigating Difficult Conversations: Strategies for Dealing with Challenging People
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Beyond Books: Promoting Fun in High School Libraries
Thursday, October 23, 2025	What’s Missing from the MLIS? A Conversation with Working Librarians and the You, the Audience.
Thursday, October 23, 2025	School Library Division Round Table
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Networking for Success: How Partnerships Enhance Programs and Drive Attendance
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Is the Customer Always Right?
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Person-Centered, Interactive Literacy Activities Benefit Patrons Living with Dementia
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Navajo Nation Library: A Revitalization Story
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Librarians are the Experts! Local Coordination for Statewide Digital Equity Success
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Black Collections at Arizona State University Library: Triumphants and Challenges starting a new community-based archival collection in Arizona
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Digital Literacy in Navajo County
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Reviving School Libraries: The Bring on the Books Initiative
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Constant Burnout in the Workplace: 5 Surprising Reasons that It's Not Getting Better
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Navigating Change Through Cross-Department Collaboration
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Innovative Digitization and 3D Preservation: New Developments at ASU’s CCDR Collections
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Membership, Marketing, and Outreach Round Table
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Storytime Made Easier
Thursday, October 23, 2025	Opening Keynote: Activating the Archive: A New Model for Public History in Print
Wednesday, October 22, 2025	University of Arizona Main Library Tour
Wednesday, October 22, 2025	Sahuarita Library Tour
Wednesday, October 22, 2025	Poetry Center Tour- University of Arizona

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

6:00 PM - AZLA Welcome Mixer

Casino Del Sol Pool

Thursday, October 23, 2025

7:00 AM- 4:15 PM AZLA Registration Booth Open

7:30 AM - 8:15 AM Breakfast in the Ballroom

9:30 AM - 4 PM Exhibitor Hall Open

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM
Opening Keynote Speaker: Lydia Otero

"Activating the Archive: A Model for Public History in Print"

12:30 - 1:45 PM Lunch, Networking and Raffle

5:30 PM - University of Arizona Alumni Mixer

Conference Terrace

Friday, October 24, 2025

7:00 AM- 1:30 PM AZLA Registration Booth Open

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast in the Ballroom

9:00 AM - 12 PM Exhibitor Hall Open

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Service Awards Lunch in the Ballroom

Plated lunch will be served.

AZLA Transition of Power will happen at 2:30 PM.

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Closing Keynote Panel

Library Advocacy 2025 - Standing Strong Together

Lisa Varga, Associate Executive Director of the American Library Association's Public Policy and Advocacy Office in Washington DC
Lisa Morris Wilkey, Librarian at Casa Grande Union High School
Erin MacFarlane, AzLA Advocacy Committee Chair
Moderated by Cheryl Gerken, AzLA's Professional Development Committee

Presented by the Advocacy Committee