2008
GENRE BOOT
CAMP (April)
Speaker: ARRT
Steering Committee Members
Format: Genre
Place: Oak Lawn Public Library
2007
GENRE BOOT
CAMP (September)
Speaker: ARRT
Steering Committee Members
Format: All-Day
Program
Place: Priory, Dominican University, River Forest
GETTING THE BEST
FROM YOUR RA DEPARTMENT (July)
Speaker: Barry Trott, Williamsburg (VA) Regional Library
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place:
White Eagle, Niles
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Ricki Nordmeyer
Format: Open Discussion
Book Discussed: "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by
Lisa See
Place: Indian Prairie Public Library
WELCOMING
TEENS INTO YOUR LIBRARY
(2 sessions in April)
Speaker: Heather Booth, Downers Grove; Ann Carlson, Oak Park-River Forest
High School; Maggie Hommel, Park Ridge
Format: Genre
Place: Des Plaines Public Library; Downers Grove Public Library
2006
READERS
ADVISORY 101
(2 sessions: April, May)
Speaker: Jeanne Etling, Debbie
Walsh, Debbie Wordinger
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Oak Lawn Public Library, Arlington Heights Memorial
Library
AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA LIPPMAN
(July)
Speaker: Laura Lippman
interviewed by Ricki Nordmeyer
Format: Author program
Place: Skokie Public Library
READERS ADVISORY 201
(2 sessions: September, October)
Speaker: Joanna
Hazelden, Merle Jacob, Rebecca Vnuk, Vivian Mortensen
Format:
Nuts and Bolts
Place: Oak Lawn Public Library, Arlington Heights Memorial
Library
2005
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (April)
Speaker: Debbie Wordinger
Format: Open Discussion
Book Discussed: "Rocket Boys" by
Homer Hickam
Place: Oak Lawn Public Library
NOT ANOTHER CLICHED DISPLAY (May)
Speaker: ARRT Steering Committee Members
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Itasca Country Club
BARBARA D'AMATO (July)
Speaker: Barbara D'Amato
Format: Genre Study
Place: Chief O'Neill's Pub, Chicago
BEHIND THE BLOCKBUSTERS
(September)
Speaker: Mary Munday, Susanne Clower, Karen
Kleckner, Rebecca Vnuk
Format: Genre Study, Nuts and Bolts
Place: Held at White Eagle Banquets, Niles
2004
ARE YOU SCARED OF THE HORROR GENRE? (March)
Speaker: Alan
Ziebarth
Format: Genre
Study
Place: Ashton
Place, Willowbrook
21st CENTURY FICTION: A SYMPOSIUM (May)
Speaker: Duncan
Smith, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, William Crowley
Format: Two-Day
Workshop
Place:
Dominican University, River Forest
2003
COMMON PROBLEMS, UNCOMMON
SOLUTIONS (March)
Speaker: ARRT Steering Committee Members
Format: Small Group
Place: Ripples, Darien
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Ted Balcom, Corky Lee
Format: Open Discussion
Book Discussed: "Plainsong"
by Kent Haruf
Place: Des Plaines
Public Library
GRAPHIC NOVELS: NOT JUST FOR YAs!
(July)
Speaker: Ray Olson, Gordon Flagg
Format: Genre
Place: Itasca Country Club
CHRISTIAN FICTION (October)
Speaker: John Mort, Travis Trasher
Format: Genre Study
Place: Ashton Place, Willowbrook
2002
FORGOTTEN TREASURES: AUTHORS OF THE
1950s-1990s YOU SHOULD KNOW (April)
Speaker: Joyce Saricks, Merle Jacob, Alan Ziebarth
Format: Small Group
Place: Ripples, Darien
READERS ADVISORY WEBSITES: DRAW READERS INTO YOUR WEB (PAGE)
(July)
Speaker: Chapple Langemack
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Itasca Country Club
FORGOTTEN TREASURES: AUTHORS OF THE
1950s-1990s YOU SHOULD KNOW (September)
Speaker: Joyce Saricks, Merle Jacob, Alan Ziebarth
Format: Small Group
Place: Navy Pier, ILA
Conference
FLIGHTS OF FANTASY (October)
Speaker: Ricki Nordmeyer
Format: Genre
Place: Chateau Rand, Des Plaines
2001
SELF-GUIDED
READERS' ADVISORY TRAINING (March)
Speaker: Roberta
Johnson
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Itasca Country
Club
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Debbie Walsh
and Ted Balcom
Book Discussed: "Rocket
Boys" by Homer Hickam
Format: Open
Discussion
Place: St. Charles
Public Library
MAKE MINE A MYSTERY (July)
Speaker: Gary Warren
Neibuhr
Format: Genre
Place: Chateau Rand,
Des Plaines
2000
BOOKTALKING AT
THE SHELVES (March)
Speaker: Vivian
Mortensen
Format: Small
Group
Place: Crystal Palace, Des Plaines
MULTICULTURAL AUTHORS (July)
Speaker: Nancy Pearl
Format: Nuts
and Bolts
Place: Ripples, Darien
LOVE...IN THE AFTERNOON (October)
Speaker: Kristen Ramsdell, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
and Kathy Hendrickson
Format: Panel Discussion
Place: Itasca Country
Club
1999
BOOK DISCUSSION DYNAMICS (March)
Speaker: Rachel
Jacobson
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Crystal Palace
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Debbie Walsh
and Debbie Wordinger
Book Discussed: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
by John Berendt
Format: Open
Discussion
Place: Niles Public
Library
ADVENTURE GENRE (June)
Speaker: Michael
Gannon
Format: Genre
Place: Inn of Burr
Ridge
READ-A-LIKES (October)
Speaker: Joyce Saricks
and Ricki Nordmeyer
Format: Small Group
Place: Itasca Country
Club
1998
ANNOTATIONS
(March)
Speaker: Merle Jacob
Format: Small Group
Place: Diplomat West,
Elmhurst
RA 101 (May)
Speaker: Debbie Walsh,
moderator; Vivian Mortensen, Mary McKeeth, Barbara Kruser
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Diplomat West,
Elmhurst
YA AND ADULT BOOKS FOR YAs (July)
Speaker: Jan Byczek
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Inn of Burr
Ridge, Burr Ridge
MYSTERY GENRE (September)
Speaker: Elizabeth
Peters, Ricki Nordmeyer
Format: Genre Program
Place: Arlington
Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights
1997
LISTEN AT YOUR
LEISURE (April)
Speaker: Nancy Liggin,
Park Ridge; Barbara Rosenblatt, Recorded Books
Format: Genre Study
Place: Banquets by
Brigante’s, Park Ridge
BOOK DISCUSSION ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Debbie Walsh,
St. Charles
Book Discussed: "Snow
Falling on Cedars" by David Guterson
Format: Open
Discussion
Place: Indian Prairie
Public Library, Darien
WEEDING YOUR FICTION COLLECTION (July)
Speaker: James
Sweetland, University of Wisconsin
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Best Western
Inn of Burr Ridge, Burr Ridge
GENREFLECTING AND BEYOND (October)
Speaker: Diana Herald,
Genreflecting
Format: Genre Study
Place: Diplomat West,
Elmhurst
1996
GUILTY PLEASURES (March)
Format: Small Group
Place: Banquets by
Brigante, Park Ridge
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND (June)
Speaker: Roberta
Johnson, Morton Grove
Format: Genre Study
Place: Best Western
Inn of Burr Ridge, Burr Ridge
MAKING YOUR LIBRARY READER FRIENDLY (October)
Speaker: Debbie
Wordinger, Indian Praire (designing a new library); Sally Schuster, Addison (redesigning
an older library); Sue Peterson, Brain Snacks (bookstore)
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Diplomat West
Banquets, Elmhurst
1995
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIPS (March)
Format: Small Group
Place: Banquets by
Brigante, Park Ridge
CONNECTING READERS ADVISORY (May)
Speaker: Vivian
Mortensen, Park Ridge; Joyce Saricks, Downers Grove; Ted Balcom, Villa Park
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: ILA, Peoria
READABLE CLASSICS (May)
Speaker: Debbie
Wordinger, Indian Prairie (facilitator)
Format: Small Group
Place: ILA, Peoria
HISTORICAL FICTION (May)
Speaker: Sharon
Karpiel, Elmhurst; Joyce Saricks, Downers Grove; Joyce Voss, Arlington Heights; Debra
Wordinger, Indian Prairie; Merle Jacob, Chicago
Format: Genre Study
Place: ILA, Peoria
GENRE 101: WHAT EVERY LIBRARIAN
NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ROMANCE AND SUSPENSE GENRES (May)
Speaker: Joyce
Saricks, Downer Grove
Format: Genre Study
Place: ILA, Peoria
FIRST YOU READ: WHY AND HOW GENRE
STUDY WILL IMPROVE YOUR READERS ADVISORY SERVICE (May)
Speaker: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park
Format: Genre Study
Place: ILA, Peoria
BOOK DISCUSSION LEADERS’
ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park; Debbie Walsh, St. Charles; Debbie Wordinger, Indian Prairie (facilitator)
Book Discussed: "The
Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx
Format: Open Discussion
Place: Downers Grove
Public Library
FEATURING FICTION: A HOW-TO PROGRAM (May)
Speaker: Carolyn
Reinhard, Arlington Heights (on displays); Ricki Nordmeyer, Villa Park (setting up a
mystery wall); Pat Groh, Skokie (on marketing the collection)
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Diplomat West,
Elmhurst
THRILLERS (September)
Speaker: Barb Kruser,
Niles (political thrillers); Linda Lacy, Wheaton (legal thrillers); Nancy Liggin, Park
Ridge (medical thrillers)
Format: Genre Study
Place: Best Western
Inn of Burr Ridge, Burr Ridge
1994
BOOKS LIVES AND
VIDEOTAPE (April)
Speaker: Duncan Smith
Format: Four all-day
workshops—two beginners and two advanced cosponsored with NSLS
Place: NSLS, Wheeling
and SLS, Burr Ridge
READABLE CLASSICS (May)
Speaker: Merle Jacob,
Chicago (moderator)
Format: Small Group
Place: Banquets by
Brigante, Park Ridge
BOOK DISCUSSION LEADERS’
ROUNDUP (May)
Speaker: Debbie
Wordinger, Indian Prairie (facilitator)
Format: Open
Discussion (Not a We-all-read-one
book program)
Place: St. Charles
Public Library
THE POWER OF THE ROMANCE NOVEL (September)
Speakers: Cathie Linz
and Linda Wiatr (authors)
Format: Genre Study
Place: Diplomat West
Banquets, Elmhurst
FICTION FINDING SOLUTIONS (October)
Speakers: Ellen Hines,
Arlington Heights (fiction subject headings); Barb Kruser, Niles and Sally Schuster,
Addison (genre labeling)
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Inn of Burr
Ridge, Burr Ridge
1993
READING CLUBS
FOR ADULTS (March)
Speakers: Betsy
Levins, Elmhurst; Shari Hetzke, Arlington Heights; Carol Hackwe, Roselle
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Panel Discussion
Place: Banquets by
Brigante, Park Ridge
DISCUSSABLE BOOKS (June)
Speaker: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park
Format: Speaker
followed by small group discussion
Place: Inn of Burr
Ridge, Burr Ridge
HISTORICAL FICTION (September)
Speaker: Merle Jacob,
Chicago; Sharon Karpiel, Elmhurst; Joyce Saricks, Downers Grove; Joyce Voss, Arlington
Heights; Debra Wordinger, Indian Prairie
Format: Genre Study
Place: Harvey’s,
Westmont
1992
EVERYTHING YOU
EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HORROR LITERATURE: ILA CONFERENCE (March)
Speakers: Muzette
Diefenthal, Arlington Heights (moderator); Nancy Brown, Downers Grove; Joyce Saricks,
Downers Grove; Nancy Liggin, Park Ridge; Vivian Mortensen, Park Ridge; Joyce Voss, Park
Ridge
Format: Genre Study
Place: ILA Conference,
Chicago, IL
ROMANCE FICTION (April)
Format: Small Group
Discussion
Place: Banquets by
Brigante, Des Plaines
THERE ARE NO BAD DRAGONS: FANTASY
LITERATURE (June)
Speaker: Marlene Ogg,
Evanston
Format: Genre Study
Place: Harvey’s,
Westmont
CONNECTING BOOKS AND READERS: HOW
TO DO READER’S ADVISORY (ALL-DAY CONFERENCE) (October)
Speaker: Mary K.
Chelton, Montgomery County Department of Public Libraries, Maryland
Format: Two
presentations by Ms. Chelton
Place: Knickers, Des
Plaines
1991
MAKING
CONVERSATIONS ON ILLINOIS LITERATURE (March,
April, November)
Speaker: Robert Bray,
Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois
Format: Genre Study
Place: CANCELED ALL
THREE TIMES
GENTLE READS (May)
Format: Small Group
Discussion
Place: Diplomat West
Banquets, Elmhurst
SELLING AUTHORS AND BOOKS (September)
Speakers: William
Love, author of "The Chartreuse Clue"; Nancy Liggin, Park Ridge (moderator);
Shauna Hawkins, Evanston, Caryl Mobley, Arlington Heights; Mary Nelson, public relations
consultant
Format: Nuts and Bolts Panel
Discussions
Place: Mr. Peters, Mt. Prospect
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT HORROR LITERATURE (November)
Speakers: Muzette
Diefenthal, Arlington Heights (moderator); Nancy Brown, Downers Grove; Joyce Saricks,
Downers Grove; Joyce Voss, Park Ridge; Nancy Liggin, Park Ridge; Vivian Mortensen, Park
Ridge
Format: Genre Study
Place: Minneapolis,
Minn MFLA Conference
1990
FICTION THAT
MAKES YOU SMILE (March)
Format: Small Group
Discussion
Place: Jerry
Sharko’s, Lisle
ARRT'S THIRD ANNUAL ILA BOOK
DISCUSSION (March)
Speaker: Ted Balcom, Villa Park
Book Discussed: "My
Antonia" by Willa Cather
Format: Book
Discussion plus comments by Ted Balcom
Place: ILA Conference,
Springfield, IL
NUTS AND BOLTS: READER’S
ADVISORY SERVICE (May)
Speakers: Nancy Brown,
Downers Grove (moderator); Vivian Mortensen, Park Ridge; Joyce Anderson, Indian Trails;
Penny McCreight, Calumet City
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Salt Creek Golf
Club, Wood Dale
WINDY CITY MURDERS: MYSTERY NOVELS
SET IN CHICAGO (September)
Speaker: Neal Nye,
Park Forest
Format: Genre Study
Place: Delphian House
Restaurant, Hickory Hills
1989
GHOSTS, GHOULS,
AND GORE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HORROR
FICTION (March)
Speaker: Ray Olson,
Booklist
Format: Genre Study
Place: Harvey’s,
Westmont
ARRT’S SECOND ANNUAL ILA BOOK
DISCUSSION (April)
Speaker: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park
Book Discussed: "Angle of Repose" by Wallace
Stegner
Format: Book Discussion plus
comments from Ted Balcom
Place: ILA Conference,
Pheasant Run, IL
BEYOND THE SECRET GARDEN: ADULT
FICTION BOOKS THAT APPEAL TO TEENAGE READERS
(May)
Format: Small Group
Discussion
Place: Brookwood
Country Club, Wood Dale, IL
MANAGING THE FICTION COLLECTION:
ALL-DAY CONFERENCE (October)
Speakers: Sharon
Baker, University of Iowa (keynote speaker); Dorothy Rasmussen, Skokie (ordering out of
print books); Lewis Rosenblaum, Guild Books (bookseller’s point of view); weeding
fiction speakers: Ted Balcom, Villa Park; Carol Blohm, Highland Park; Muzette Diefenthal,
Arlington Heights; Joyce Voss, Park Ridge
Format: Two
presentations by Baker plus choice of one small group presentation
Place: White Eagle
Golf Club, Naperville
1988
FOREIGN AUTHORS
EVERY LIBRARIAN SHOULD KNOW (March)
Speaker: Alan
Schwartz, Oakton Community College
Format:
Genre Study
Place: Hackney’s,
Wheeling
ARRT'S FIRST ANNUAL ILA BOOK
DISCUSSION (May)
Speaker: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park
Book Discussed: "The Handmaid's Tale" by
Margaret Atwood
Format: Book
discussion plus comments by Ted Balcom
Place: ILA Conference,
Chicago, IL
BOOKTALKING:
THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF LIBRARIANSHIP (June)
Speaker: Hazel
Rochman, Booklist
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Harvey’s,
Westmont
FICTION MEN READ: BOOKS WITH A WIDE
MALE READERSHIP (September)
Format: Small Group
Place: Brookwood
Country Club
1987
NON-FICTION THAT
READS LIKE A NOVEL (April)
Format: Small Group
Place: Brookwood
Country Club, Wood Dale
HOW TO PREPARE AN ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY (July)
Speakers: Brad Hooper,
Booklist; Vivian Mortensen, Park Ridge; Donna Hicks, Northbrook
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Brookwood
Country Club, Wood Dale
ADVENTURE, DANGER,
ROMANCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN IN GENRE FICTION (September)
Speaker: Joy Kennedy,
Arlington Heights
Format: Genre Study
1986
SCIENCE FICTION
101: PAINLESS THERAPY FOR THE ALLERGIC
(January)
Speakers: Lynn
Fancher, College of DuPage; Georgine Olson, Lake Forest; Cris Sakalis, Thomas Ford
Format: Genre Study
Place: Harvey’s,
Westmont
GOOD BOOKS THAT ARE LOST IN THE
STACKS (April)
Format: Small Group
Place: NSLS
Headquarters, Wheeling
GENREFLECTING WORKSHOP: ALL-DAY
CONFERENCE (October)
Speakers: Betty
Rosenberg, author of Genreflecting (keynote speaker); Merle Jacob, Skokie (mystery);
Eugenia Bryant, Skokie (romance); Joyce Voss, Franklin Park (humor); Jan Johnston, Crystal
Lake (gentle reads); Nancy Thomas, Addison (espionage); Georgine Olson, Lake Forest
(science fiction)
Format: Two
presentations by Ms. Roseburg plus choice of two small programs on specific genres
Place: Brookwood
Country Club, Wood Dale
1985
BEST AND WORST
OF THE YEAR (January)
Format: Small Group
Place: SLS
Headquarters, Burr Ridge
READ-ALIKES (May)
Speakers: Mary
Goulding,SLS; Merle Jacob, Skokie; Nancy Brown, Downers Grove
Format: Panel
Place: NSLS
Headquarters, Wheeling
THE UNABASHED BOOK DISCUSSION: HOW
YOU CAN DO IT GOOD (October)
Speakers: Ted Balcom,
Villa Park (moderator); Joyce Saricks, Downers Grove; Vivian Mortensen, Park Ridge; Eloise
Burfisher, Des Plaines; Margaret Monsour, Bensenville; Mary Sue Brown, Elmhurst
Format: Nuts and Bolts
Place: Plentywood Farm
Restaurant, Bensenville
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