Are you attending ALA Annual Conference and looking for some geeky and comic sessions to attend? Fret no more – GraphiCon is here! GraphiCon is a roundup of all the geeky and comic programming happening at ALA Annual Conference. It is kicked off at the Graphic Novel Friday Forum and goes on until the end of conference.
Aside from the list of panels there is also an artist alley, Graphic Novel and Gaming Stage on the exhibit floor (more details coming soon) and a Gaming Lounge (sign up for an escape room experience here)!
Check out the roundup of panels from all sorts of divisions, round tables and offices within ALA. The sessions with ⚡ are brought to you by the Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries Member Interest Group (MIG).
Graphic Novel Friday Forum: Read More, Read Better - Learning with Comics and Graphic Novels ⚡
Date/Time: Friday, June 23rd, 12pm-4pm
Location: McCormick Place, W190b
The forum this year focuses on reading more and learning with comics and graphic novels. Topics range from teaching STEAM to learning grammar (and yes, Gene Luen Yang is the keynote speaker).
ALA Play
Date/Time: Friday, June 23, 7:30pm-10pm
Location: Hilton Chicago, Stevens Center, Salon A
Join the Games and Gaming Round Table (GAMERT) for an evening of exploration, play and making.
Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Gene Luen Yang
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 8:30am-9:30am
Location: McCormick Place, W375b/Skyline
Yang is a long-time educator who champions comics and graphic novels as educational tools in the classroom and has delivered a TEDx Talk on the subject.
The Diagnostics of Wattpad: Leveraging FanFiction to Develop Teen Library Collections
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 8:30am-10am
Location: McCormick Place, W184d
Learn how teens read and share their own stories with fans across the world and leverage Wattpad's popularity to develop the young adult collection in your library!
Graphic Memoirs: how non-fiction graphic novels bring real lives to life⚡
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 10:30am-11:30am
Location: McCormick Place, W175b
In this panel comics creators will explain how they approached their subjects, how they decided what to leave out and what to include, and the extent to which they inserted themselves into the narrative.
Streaming Video and Graphic Novels from an Acquisitions Perspective: Unusual Workflows
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 10:30am-11:30am
Location: McCormick Place, W178a
Join us as we discuss the challenges posed by streaming video and graphic novels from an acquisitions perspective. Two librarians will identify the issues, describe what has worked for them, and discuss how to build upon existing library-vendor partnerships to better meet user needs.
Keywords to Mastery Game: An active learning approach to discover research topics
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 1pm-2:30pm
Location: McCormick Place, W176b
A fun and interactive hands-on workshop where you build and play your own low-tech game that helps students gain keyword and natural language processing skills for database searching. Brought to you by GAMERT.
Comics Are For Everyone!
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 3pm-4pm
Location: McCormick Place, W176b
Celebrate the independent spirit and creator-owned ethos in graphic novel publishing with Image Comics and some of their creators.
Running a Library Presence @ Fan Conventions, Festivals, and Events⚡
Date/Time: Saturday, June 24, 3pm-4pm
Location: McCormick Place, W474b
Learn about running panels for library staff and educators, offering readers' advisory and research help, promoting diverse material, showcasing items from special collections, and running a pop-up library lounge!
Stay and Play: Create Open Library Spaces and STEM Material Collections for Play-Based Discovery Programming
Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 10:30am-11:30am
Location: McCormick Place, W175c
Learn how to re-resource your collection to include activity kits that inspire innovation, open-space programming pitfalls and lessons learned, and programming ideas for all budget levels.
International Comics - Culture & Creation Beyond America ⚡
Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 1pm-2:30pm
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Jackson Park/CC 10AB
Come hear how fandom and creator processes differ in other places, and how much common ground we really do share.
Fandom Programs for Tweens, Teens, and Adults
Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 1pm-2:30pm
Location: McCormick Place, W187c
Give fans who are passionate about genres, characters, games, and book series plenty of reasons to return to your library again and again. You’ll walk away with inspiration and ideas that can be used with a variety of fandoms and interests at your own library!
Comics Roundtable: What does the future of comics librarianship look like? ⚡
Date/Time: Sunday, June 25, 3pm-4pm
Location: McCormick Place, W476
Bookseller Andrew Woodrow-Butcher and librarian Lindsay Gibb will be leading a discussion with other comics librarians and professionals about the conversations we need to be having around comics in libraries.
CANCELED Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Bill Nye & Gregory Mone
Date/Time: Monday, June 26, 2pm-3pm
Location: McCormick Place, W375b/Skyline
Science educator, television presenter, media personality, mechanical engineer, and New York Times bestselling author William Sanford "Bill" Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is joined in this session by co-author Gregory Mone, a novelist, science journalist, speaker, and children’s book author.
Telling Their Stories through Graphic Novels - Views from Behind the Fence
Date/Time: Monday, June 26, 3pm-4pm
Location: McCormick Place, W176b
A school librarian and school library professor will describe the 2016 Will Eisner Innovation Grant Award project where incarcerated students wrote and story‐boarded the text for a graphic novel based on their gang experiences. Participants at this session will learn how they can replicate this writing and visual literacy program at any school level.
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