Tuesday, 3/31, 2:00-2:50 PM John Ahlen, Marval Allen, and Katherine McDonaugh share how students are able to post book reviews using a Web application. You are able to act as the gatekeeper. Book review databases in Spanish and English will be covered as well.

Tuesday, 3/31, 2:00 - 3:20 PM: Maria Elena Ovalle, Rose Trevino, and Tanya Tullos explore booklists offering the best Spanish language and bilingual books for children for collection development.

Tuesday, 3/31, 4:00-4:50 PM: Barry Bishop and Mary Woodard demonstrate who to implement 2.0 and present it to your staff in a creative way.

Wednesday, 4/1, 10:15-11:50 AM: Cathy Hinojosa and Sharon Swarner discuss how to guide students though a "spiraling curriculum" and project-based research. An overview of the process will be presented.

Wednesday, 4/1, 10:15-11:50 AM: Sue Hays, Dan F. Long, and Susan Smith bring WebQuest and Web 2.0 together to reinforce 21st century skills.

Wednesday, 4/1, 10:15-11:50 AM: Leonard S. Marcus, children's book historian, explores the pivotal events and books that have shaped children's publishing and transformed children's literature.

Wednesday, 4/1, 11:00-11:50 AM: Mary Ann Bell tours museums through their websites, even though they may be unfamiliar by name yet rich and worthy for integrating as a resource to use with students.

Wednesday, 4/1, 12:00-12:50 PM: Tim Green, former Atlanta Falcons linebacker, talks about writing for boys with sports as the platform.

Wednesday, 4/1, 2:00-2:50 PM: Alpha Omega Cruz-Lopez and Sherri McDonald share how to engage parents in the ABC Club (Answers, Books, Children) where make and take activities are incorporated. Bilingual settings and diverse techniques are included.

Wednesday, 4/1, 2:00-2:50 PM: Julie Briggs, Dee Ann Douglas, Christa Harker, Dorette Putonti, and Kathy Wendling offer new ideas for professional development using learning communities where librarians join forces to promote group learning.

Wednesday, 4/1, 2:00-2:50 PM: Mary Faye Randolph uses contests, games, and activities to familiarize students with K-12 databases as efficient and authoritative research tools.

Wednesday, 4/1, 2:30-3:50 PM: Carol Deviney, Donna MacKinney, Lisa Thibodeaux, and Nancy Watson share how a small group of librarians, teachers, and technology and curriculum specialists embed resource-based learning into an existing school district curriculum.

Wednesday, 4/1, 4:00-4:50 PM: Darren Grissom and Kyle Ward share how school librarians may work with PTA parents and partner with them to ensure that students are receiving strong educational support and benefitting from quality library resources.

Wednesday, 4/1, 4:00-5:20 PM: Lysa Rice shares how to bridge the gap between affluent peers and teachers and students living in poverty whose social reality is very different. Receive the tools needed to help your students succeed.

Thursday, 4/2, 8:00-9:50 AM: Leslie Bulion, Betsy Franco, Georgia Heard, J. Patrick Lewis, Hope Anita Smith, Sylvia Vardell, and Tracie Vaughn Zimmer participate.

Thursday, 4/2, 8:00-9:50 AM: Liz Friend offers suggestions in guiding teachers toward boy-friendly books while considering that boys now fall behind in every measurable academic field. Brain development and science are focused on and how this differs by gender.

Thursday, 4/2, 8:30-9:50 AM: Susan Ballard examines the new standards and how they match the TEKS so that they can be taught in the library.

Thursday, 4/2, 9:00-9:50 AM: Ruth A. Cook and Clarissa Grindle share how to incorporate TEKS-based interactive lessons using an electronic white board and clickers to check for understanding and assess instruction while engaging learning and increasing student achievement.

Thursday, 4/2, 10:00-10:50 AM: Jenny Levine discusses the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages of using tagging in a library, and how it can increase the presence of the library while helping the patron locate information more easily.

Thursday, 4/2, 10:00-11:20 AM: Len Bryan, Kate DiPronio, Cecilia Fuentes, Linda kay, Lori Loranger, Amy Lott, Michelle McLaughlin, and Laura Stiles demonstrate how they created a community of readers loosely based on the book and movie "Play It Forward."

Thursday, 4/2, 10:30-11:50 AM: Naomi Bates engages students with videocasts to promote pleasure reading. Websites and online resources will be shared.

Thursday, 4/2, 11:00-11:50 AM: Leslie Bulion explores wordplay and humor in scientific language as she takes the audience through her process of creating funny poems for children.

Thursday, 4/2, 12:00-1:50 PM: A TLA tradition! This is a paid event. Purchase tickets by Monday, March 16, 2009 through the preregistration process.

Thursday, 4/2, 2:00-2:50 PM: Renne Chevalier, Gracelyn Shea, and Bonnie Tollefson share how to overcome the unique challenges with Web 2.0 applications in the private-school setting.

Thursday, 4/2, 2:00-2:50 PM: Claire Coggin, Maggie Knapp, and Kirsten Murphy share ideas on how to improve relations with students, faculty, and administration. Includes improving the presentation of your collection, adding innovative programming, and enhancing your library's image.

Thursday, 4/2, 2:00-3:20 PM: Teri Lesesne, Professor Nana, tells of the best new titles in young adult literature that you will be able to share with your students.

Thursday, 4/2, 2:00-3:50 PM: Stephanie Cox, Faye Hagerty, Jana Knezek, Millie Linares, Pat Strawn, and Stacie Tong share how they plan library mini-conferences during regular two-hour monthly meetings.

Thursday, 4/2, 6:00-8:00 PM: The presentation will take place at Hilton Americas-Houston.

Thursday, 4/2, 6:30-8:30 PM: The dinner will take place at Incarnate Word Academy, 609 Crawford Street.

Friday, 4/3, 8:00-9:50 AM: Neil Krasnoff demonstrates how a high school library is best conceived as a retail business with teachers and students as potential customers. Practical ideas will be covered.

Friday, 4/3, 8:30-9:50 AM: Barbara A. Jansen shares how wikis can revitalize collaboration with teachers, deliver motivating higher-level assignments, and how collaborations provide one-stop shopping pages for students' tasks and information needs.

Friday, 4/3, 9:00-9:50 AM: Karen Shull shows how to start using your website to teach information literacy across all grade levels.

Friday, 4/3, 10:00-11:50 AM: Meet the All-American Girl: Meg Cabot.

TASL Board meetings are open for attendance.

Jackie Chetzron, Chair, opened the TASL Board meeting with news of how busy TASL has been this year, especially since it is a legislative year. TASL brought about 25 programs to TLA. Also this year, we began a collaborative partnership with PTA. The award that came from that partnership will be an annual award.

For professional development opportunities for school librarians, we are looking at August 3 (tentative) for a Leadership Institute that will be co-sponsored by ProQuest to help cover some of the costs. ProQuest will also help sponsor an Advocacy Institute Preconference at TLA in San Antonio. These institutes will be 7 1/2 hours of content and are licensed through AASL.

All committees reported on the great work that they are doing. Here is a list of committees if you are unfamiliar with all of them:

Administrator of the Year -- Deborah Hall
Bylaws -- Carol Deviney
Laura Edwards TLA Conference Scholarship Stipend -- Megan Cooper
Legislative -- Jennifer Laboon
Membership -- Jane Eixmann
Nominations -- Jack Strawn
Private Schools -- Renee Chevallier
Resolutions -- Demetria Williams
Scholarship -- Linda Villareal
Texas Bluebonnet Award Task Force Report -- Sharon Amastae
Texas Bluebonnet Award Local Arrangements -- Kay McBride

Also, announced at the meeting is next year's conference theme: Filtering Chaos: From Information to Knowledge. The conference will be in San Antonio, April 14-17, 2010.