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Annalee Hickman Pierson

Brigham Young University Law Library
Head of Reference and Faculty Services
Provo, UT
Websitehttps://law.byu.edu/directory/faculty/annalee-hickman-pierson/
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Annalee Hickman Pierson joined the law library faculty in 2016 after completing a J.D. at Brigham Young University. As Head of Reference and Faculty Services, she oversees legal reference and faculty services, provides faculty research assistance and support, and writes scholarship that focuses on legal reference services, faculty services, legal research instruction, legal education, and law librarianship. She also teaches two first-year law student courses: Introduction to Legal Research and Writing and Introduction to Advocacy.
Wednesday, May 18
 

8:00am MDT

Early Morning Coffee Service Sky Lobby

9:00am MDT

Introduction to Library Assessment Twilight 1 & 2Holt Zaugg

10:30am MDT

Morning Refreshment Break Break Station East

12:00pm MDT

Lunch on your own TBA

1:00pm MDT

Managing Change When You’re not in Charge: How to keep your sanity during organizational change. Twilight 3 & 4Catherine Soehner

2:30pm MDT

Afternoon Refreshment Break Break Station East
 
Thursday, May 19
 

7:30am MDT

Early Morning Coffee Service Sky Lobby

8:00am MDT

Silent Auction Eclipse

8:30am MDT

President's Address & Keynote: Centering Diversity through Individual Awareness, Action and Advocacy EclipseTwanna Hodge

10:00am MDT

Morning Refreshment Break Eclipse; Break Station East

10:30am MDT

Evaluating library policies from the perspective of equity ZephyrJeff Belliston • Ernesto Hernandez Jr • Dan Broadbent • Allison Spehar • Deborah Ehrman • Teresa Gomez

11:30am MDT

Reference Interview in 2022 Twilight 3 & 4Davie Bird

12:00pm MDT

Creating a policy: the steps we took to suggest a policy for children in the workplace. Stratus 5 & 6Ryan Lee • Marissa Bischoff • Sharolyn Swenson • Cindy Ledingham

12:30pm MDT

Lunch & Diversity Book Club Break Station East; Solstice CourtyardPublic Section of ULA

1:30pm MDT

Reaching Out to Diverse Student Populations : Collaborations and Programs at the Academic Library ZephyrDianne Aldrich The power of equity, diversity, and inclusion as a foundation for a successful library community Stratus 7-9Anne R. Diekema • Caitlin Gerrity • Christopher Clark • Katharine Frazier

2:00pm MDT

Documenting Ourselves: Writing Procedural Manuals Meridian BTeresa Hebron

2:30pm MDT

Afternoon Refreshment Break Eclipse; Break Station East

3:00pm MDT

Using Entrepreneurship Principles to Guide Library Innovation Twilight 3 & 4Donna Cardon • Benjamin Cardon

4:00pm MDT

Author Keynote and Q&A: "Mending the Circle" EclipseCarole Lindstrom

5:00pm MDT

Social, Happy Hour, and Book Signing with Carole Lindstrom Eclipse
 
Friday, May 20
 

8:30am MDT

Awards Ceremony & Keynote: Empowerment, Leadership & Diversity EclipsePatty Wong

10:00am MDT

Morning Refreshment Break Eclipse; Break Station East

10:30am MDT

The Library E-Book Wars and State Legislation Stratus 5 & 6Annalee Hickman Pierson • Iantha Haight

11:30am MDT

The State of Federal Government Information in Utah Stratus 7-9W. Shane Wallace • Jen Kirk • Mallory Bateman Covid Keepers: Maintaining strategies for morale, productivity, and stress reduction during and after a pandemic. ZephyrCatherine Soehner • Carmin Smoot • Heidi Greenberg

12:00pm MDT

Investigation of Tenured and Tenure-Track Academic Librarians’ Service Loads at Public Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) Institutions. ZephyrTallie Casucci • Lorelei Rutledge • Savannah Kelly

12:30pm MDT

Lunch & Diversity Book Club EclipsePublic Section of ULA

1:30pm MDT

How to Speak WHALE: A patron focused model of technology customer service Twilight 3 & 4Ben Nielsen

2:00pm MDT

One Pager - Strategic Planning of the Future ZephyrAdriane Herrick Juarez • Angela Dohanos

2:30pm MDT

Afternoon Refreshment Break Eclipse; Break Station East

3:00pm MDT

Hosting Hybrid Programs Meridian D & HMarcie Beard • Westin Cross

4:00pm MDT

Gaming the System: Using Student Employees to Teach Information Literacy and Library Navigation Twilight 3 & 4Jessica Green • Brittany Maloy • Lily Skinner Surveys for Success: A crash course on best practices for survey creation Twilight 2Duane Wilson