Contact
Mary Puhr - Professional Development CoordinatorMid-America Library Alliance
816-521-7257
marypuhr@mid-americalibraryalliance.org
When
Tuesday October 21, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM CDT
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Registration closes October 19, 2014.
Where
Mid-Continent Public Library - Woodneath8900 NE Flintlock Rd
Kansas City, MO 64157
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MALA Educational Affiliate Membership - If you are employed by a library who is a member of MALA or your library is on the Get Connected Courier Delivery Service -- YOU ARE A MEMBER TOO! Contact Mary Puhr at MALA for more information on membership levels or to check your membership status.
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MALA Kansas City Broadway Shows - Group Tickets
lynda.com Licenses
Mid-America Library Alliance members can now purchase a license to the more than 2,100 instructional videos available from lynda.com for only $50.00/person. This license (valued at $375.00) will be good from now until February 28, 2015 and you can attend as many tutorials as you want as often as you want during this period. Click here for more information or email Kirsten Myers at MALA.
Mystery Loves Company Workshop 
Join us for a day of continuing education on Mystery collection development and advisory. Topics will include: new and notable authors, core collection standards, marketing tools, and mystery book clubs.
Workshop agenda:
9:00-9:15 - Introduction: Beth Atwater & Amy Fisher, Mid-Continent Public Library
9:15-10:15 - History of the Contemporary Mystery Novel -Crystal Doss, UMKC English Department
10:15-10:30 - Break
10:30-11:00 - Building a Core Collection-Gregg Winsor, Johnson County Public Library
10:00-11:45 - Blogs, Magazines, and Other Review Sources—Beth Atwater, Mid-Continent Public Library
11:45-1:15 - Lunch
1:15-2:00 - Bookseller presentation— Cheri LeBlond, Mysteryscape Bookstore
2:00-2:45 - Sell that Book: Upselling and patron interaction—Andie Paloutzian
2:45-3:00 - Break
3:00-4:00 - Guest Author -Laura McHugh, The Weight of BloodPresenters:
Crystal Gorham Doss lives in Kearney, Missouri with her husband and daughter. She teaches 20thcentury American literature at UMKC. She is life-long mystery reader and currently researching the mystery novels of Mary Roberts Rinehart.
Gregg Winsor is with the Johnson County Library.
Beth Atwater is a Collection Development Librarian with Mid-Continent Public Library, where she has also worked as a Branch Manager. She has previously worked at both Johnson County and Kansas City Missouri Public Libraries. Before becoming a Librarian, Beth worked in publishing. She loves romance novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and children’s books that feature princesses (and unicorns, but everyone loves unicorns).
Andie Paloutzian is with the Mid-Continent Public Library's Woodneath Library Center.
Laura McHugh lives in Columbia, Missouri, with her husband and children. Her wildly popular first novel,The Weight of Blood, is set in the Ozarks. In addition to The Weight of Blood, she is currently working on her second novel Arrowood, which has been purchased by Spiegel & Grau.
MALA Certificate Program: Reader's Advisory - Major Genre - 6 hrs
- MALA member: $65.00
- Non-member: $130.00
MALA Workshop Billing/Refund/Credit Policy:
We prefer all workshops to be prepaid or paid at the door. If you prefer to be billed, please add $5. Full refunds or credits are available for cancellations made a minimum of seven (7) days prior to the workshop date less a $5 administrative fee. You can transfer to another workshop a minimum of seven (7) days prior to the workshop date with no administrative fee. Cancellations made less than seven (7) days prior to the workshop date receive no refund or credit and you or your organization will be billed. No shows are billed to you or your organization.