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Small Libraries Doing Big Things! February 28, 2025 #BTSL2025
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2025 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2025
Navigating Partnerships, Community Engagement, and Your Library…Through Kindness and Without Losing Your Mind
Small Libraries, Big Economic, Environmental and Equity Impacts
Little Flyers Everywhere
Bone, Stone, and Books: Revolutionizing the Integration of Library Exploration Into Modern Times
Unique Community Resources at a Small Library
Partnering with Local Schools to Boost Public Library Engagement
Postage Pals
Mendocino County Library Round Valley Branch, Community Anchor: Best Small Library in America 2024
Getting To Know Your Community, Ideas For Your Board and Staff!
Background Engagement: Creating Interesting Interactive Library Displays for Patrons
Are You There, Reader’s Advisory? It’s Me, the Librarian.
2024 Schedule
2024 Speakers
2024 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2024
Teaching Outside the Box: Going Beyond Traditional Library Instruction
Memory Cafés: A Community Program
Leveraging Student Projects and Organizations
Accepting Credit Cards with PayPort
Towering Bookstacks and Heavy Doors: Lessons on Performing Accessibility Audits in Libraries
Farmer’s Day Fundraising
Case Study: Implementing an Afterschool Meals Program in a Small Library
Genrefying your Public Library
Page Public Library, Community Heartbeat: Best Small Library in America 2023
2023 Schedule
2023 Speakers
2023 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2023
Ch Ch Changes: Redesigning Spaces with Students in Mind
Library Playgrounds
Programming Opportunities for Adults with Disabilities
Expanding Access to the Arts with a Library Artist-in-Residence
D.A.R.E to READ
Integrating Academic Writing, Research, and Reading Support for Teacher Education Students
Using Technology to Cope with the Workload
Book Challenges and Intellectual Freedom in a Small Library
We Want Snacks, Too!: Adapting a Big Outreach Program for a Small Library
Effective Staff Evaluations Made Easy
No Zombies Were Harmed in the Making of This Teen Event
2022 Schedule
2022 Speakers
2022 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2022
Genrefying the Small School Library
Ditching Dewey
Crystal Queer: Creating Clearly Supportive and Inclusive Libraries for Communities of All Sizes
Finding the Gold in the Garbage: Adventures in Re-organizing a Genealogy Room
ALL for Fun: Programming for People With Developmental Disabilities
Small Staff, Big Personalities – Managing Conflict in a Small Library
Citation Instruction & Support at a Small Academic Library
In Search of the Perfect Potato Chip: Engaging First-Year Students with a Virtual Escape Room
Food in the Library: Reading & Feeding Your Community
Stealth in Your Library – Small Changes to Better Serve Marginalized Communities
2021 Schedule
2021 Speakers
2021 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2021
I See a Library! Making Libraries More Accessible to the Visually Impaired
School Library Lessons for the Public Library World
Grant Writing: Templates to Succeed
Poverty Relief Through Story Time
Leaders & Burnout: Protecting Your Staff From You
Preschool STEAM-Science During COVID
A Small Library with Big Dreams: Approaches to Programming and Fundraising for Renovation and Transformation
The Lone Librarian: Programming Creations & Cultivating Connections
Rethinking Community Programming
We Might Be Small, But We Are Mighty!
Affordable After Hours Pick-up Service
2020 Schedule
2020 Speakers
2020 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2020
We NEED each other! Partnering with Local Organizations to Benefit Youth
Holiday Break at the Library!
Wizards and Jedi and Gamers, Oh My! : Library Con on a Limited Budget
Can a New Library Webpage Overcome Small Library Challenges?
Growth Mindset and Staff Development
Prom Dress Giveaway!
Surviving Science Liaison Work as a Non-Scientist
Community Connections: Working with Schools, Libraries, and Local Partners to Make Big Things Happen
Fitness, Food, & Fun with Seniors (citizens that is)!
Thriving Together – Copper Queen Library: Best Small Library in America 2019
Libraries: Spaces to Unite and Empower Communities
How to Create a Textbook Donation Program to Build Course Reserve
2019 Schedule
2019 Speakers
2019 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2019
Accreditation, Grants, and Seed Library all in One Year
Teaching iPad and iPhone to Seniors
Best Small Library in America 2018: Madison County Public Libraries
Library @ the Theater
SAT Bootcamp
Marketing Out Loud: How Small Libraries Can Make Marketing Fun & Interactive
Building New Services from Scratch: Lessons Learned from Startup Library Cultures
Tiny Library Inside Small Library
Make a Mini Makerspace
Small Library, Big Partnerships
But We Don’t Have an OA Librarian: Open Education with No Budget
Improving Graphics Workflow for Efficient, Consistent Service: SRSU Case Study
2018 Schedule
2018 Speakers
2018 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome 2018
At Your Service: the Library as a Community Hub
If You Feed Them, They Still Might Not Come: Piloting a Successful Library Open House at a Small, Liberal-Arts College
Create a Culture of Opportunity! Best Small Library in America 2017: Boundary County Library
Creativity in a Box
Growing Together: Libraries and Homeschool Families
Student Access Cards: providing students with the tools they need to succeed
Strategic Planning = Efficiency for the Small Academic Library
Getting the BAND back together
Get Your Community Moving: Physical Literacy Programs for All Ages
Small Data Can Still Be Smart Data: How Outcomes Can Help Your Library
Can You Hear Me Now?
More Than Summer Lunches–Social, Cultural, and Healthy Connections
2017 Schedule
2017 Speakers
2017 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome
Social Media for a Small Library
Good Looking Out: Crucial Feedback from Students
Best Small Library in America 2011: Naturita Community Library
PROWL the Library: An Introduction to Library Services
Adventures in Serving Populations of Under 100
Cake at the Lake!
Life Stories: Community Engagement through Oral History
Share the Gift of Reading
Cultivating an Active Learning Community at the Library
What Is It Like to Work as a Prison Librarian?
Digitize It Yourself: A Method of In-House Digitization
Gold Nuggets: Mining Your Community for New and Exciting Programs
2016 Schedule
2016 Speakers
2016 Recordings & Presentations
ARSL Welcome
Transforming Your Library from Lovely to Lively!
The Road to Best Small Library Award: How Our Small Library Planned this Incredible Journey
Dig Into Your History
Leveraging the Power of Little
The John G. Neihardt State Historic Site
Easy Group Calendars
To the Big Stage on a Small Budget: From Special Collections to Archive 2.0
Kickin’ Up Our Heels
Learn More, Pay Less
Honoring the Past, Moving Into the Future
Reach Them, Teach Them: Having a Lifelong Learning Series in YOUR Library
Flip The Script: Changing the Direction of the Library
2015 Schedule
2015 Speakers
2015 Recordings & Presentations
An Introduction to ARSL
Hack the OPAC: How to Create a Free Online Library Catalog
If They Build It They Will Keep Coming Back
Kickstart Community Caring
The Library’s Open: Meeting the Needs of Your Community by Giving Up Control
Little Free (Public) Libraries
The Little Library That Could (and Did!)
Passports From Your Library
Programming Exclusively for University Staff: Blind Dates with Books & DVDs
Reaching Out: Fighting back against a bad public image
The Senior Connection: Helping Technology Make Sense to Seniors
Youth Programming: Art Against Bullying
Zopim live-chat for libraries
2014 Schedule
2014 Speakers
2014 Recordings & Presentations
Welcome to the Conference & Introductions
Be Novel!: Fresh, Fearless, & Affordable Library Programming
Celebrity Readers of the Week
Character Quest: Book Club for Struggling and Reluctant Readers
How to Make Money on the Internet For Your Library
How to Start a Great Teen Advisory Board
How to Stretch a Small Budget – Consider Buying Used Books
Motivating Library Employees in Tough Times
Non-literary collections – Why?
The People’s Library: Rebuilding the Collections of One Rural Library In the Ozarks
Scanday
You Can Have The Coolest Library Cards in Your State…For Free!
You Can Q! Using Q Method to Understand Community Needs for Small Libraries
2013 Schedule
2013 Speakers
2013 Recordings & Presentations
Circulating Electronics: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
A Community Working Together
A Destination Library on a Dime
I’m Gonna Make You Famous: Raising Awareness and Building Community on a Three-Inch Screen
Introducing ARSL
Kitchen Creations at the Library
Making the Most of Facebook and Blogging: How to Use Social Media Effectively in a Small Library
Manor Ink: Library-based, Youth-led News
Oldies Night @ the Library
Programming on a Shoestring Budget
Reaching New Readers Through Writing
Small Information Campaign Gets Big Numbers at the Polls
Yoga @ The Library
2012 Schedule
2012 Speakers
2012 Recordings & Presentations
Introduction
Combined School/City Libraries: Everyone Wins
Community Partnerships
The FFL Fabulous Laboratory: Developing a Read/Write Culture in Your Library
Gaming and Game Collection Development
Helping Your Patrons E-Read
Magic Tricks and Maintenance: Helping the Public Learn Technology
Working in the Cloud
Closing Keynote: An American Library Horror Story with a Happy Ending
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