2024 Iowa Library Association Fall Conference

Identify your library strengths, both inside and outside the library box, and use them to build strong partnerships and open doors to new ones!

Provide STEM Programming for any size library, no matter how small; and learn about the Governor’s STEM Council/Scale Up Awards
Attendees will identify how to use a full Scale Up kit in partnership with another organization. Attendees will identify how to incorporate pieces of a Scale Up kit for regular library programs. Attendees will understand the purpose and benefits of the Governor’s STEM Council and Scale Up Awards.

Learn how to develop library events and services that not only provide entertainment and education, but help foster connection among members of your community.

This session will help new directors with simple first steps that will lead to success when starting a new director position.

Learn about dementia and identify ways to be a support to those living with dementia. Participants will learn how to describe dementia and the most common type, understand 5 key messages about dementia, and learn how to effectively communicate with a person living with dementia.

Our small team of academics and software engineers at the University of Northern Iowa have been asking how to better display historical photos online for the past decade. We have emerged with a new public platform--Fortepan US, located at https://fortpean.us--that beautifully displays historical photos according to place, time, and theme. We now have an instance for every state, and we developed the prototype featuring family collections and historical photos from Iowa (Fortepan IA--fortepan.us/ia).

Our panel presentation will bring together three library and archive professionals to discuss our experiences with Fortpepan IA. We invite you to discover this gorgeous (free) public portal with timeline, grid, and map view capabilities, crowd-sourced tagging, powerful search, a new digital exhibit tool options, and a sneak preview of the 360ºTour software (coming soon). Join us to learn how you can be part of this quiet but powerful public photo portal movement.