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Hosted by the NAVAIR Weapons Division Technical Library, China Lake, CA
Agenda See also the Quick Agenda
Sunday, December 4th
1:00 to 6:00	Air Force Meeting
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.	MLW Board Meeting
Monday, December 5th
8:00 to 4:00	Service meetings.
12:00 to 1:00	Registration is available to pre-registered attendees ONLY
4:00 to 6:00	Registration is open
6:00 to 8:00	Welcome reception - Exhibits Area - Heavy hors d'ouvres
Tuesday, December 6th - "Learn the Game"
7:30 to 8:30	Registration is open.
7:30 to 5:00	Exhibits are open
7:30 to 8:30	Continental breakfast.
8:30 to 9:30	Keynote Speaker, Judy Brown, "Leadership and Learning: Strategies for Ensuring Organizational Vitality" How can the way we think about the work of leadership, and our awareness of the dynamics of leadership teams increase our effectiveness as leaders of learning organizations? This interactive opening session will explore some contemporary and classically important frameworks for the practice of leadership in learning communities, and in particular the challenges of the practice of leadership in an intellectual enterprise. Brown teaches leadership in the graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland and serves as the Director of Education, Outreach and Training for the University's National Center for Smart Growth.
9:30 to 10:00	Film clips and discussion.
10:00 to 10:30	Morning Break - Visit the Exhibits
10:30 to 11:30	Matt Anderson will speak on Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), giving a historical perspective on BRAC with implications for the current BRAC. Matt was Head of the Base Realignment and Closure Office, Naval Air Warfare Center (1994-1995) and responsible for all aspects of base realignment and closure for the four Naval Research, Development, Test & Evaluation bases in the Western United States. His effort resulted in the China Lake Base being rated #1, and the Point Mugu base #2 in military value of all the technical centers in the Navy.
11:30 to 12:00	The Air Force Report will be given by Barbara Wrinkle, Librarian of the Air Force.
12:00 to 1:30	Lunch provided in the Exhibits area.
1:30 to 2:30	Don Summer, Human Resources Specialist with NAVAIR, will speak on the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). Summer has served on an NSPS Working Group, and has first-hand knowledge of the demonstration project in place at China Lake. He will cover the reasons NSPS is needed by DoD, what it will mean for civil servants, and the current status of NSPS.
2:30 to 3:00	The FLICC/FEDLINK report will be given by Roberta Shaffer, Executive Director
3:00 to 3:30	Afternoon break - Visit the vendors
3:30 to 5:00	Technology Update - 30+ Great Ideas in 120 minutes - presented by our Vendors.
5:15 - 6:45	MECC Meeting (Military Education Coordination Conference)
Evening	Dinner and entertainment on your own.
Wednesday, December 7th - "Increase Your Odds"
7:30 to 8:30	Registration is open.
7:30 to 8:30	Continental Breakfast
7:30 to 5:00	Exhibits Open.
8:30 to 9:30	Keynote Speaker, Rick Luce, "Thriving in Chaos: A Strategic Approach to Enable Organizational Innovation." Rick Luce is the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is widely known as a digital library pioneer and organizational innovator. He will speak about using Strategic Business Management in his library. This talk traces some of the development and evolutionary stages of a research library repositioned to adapt to continuous change in the environment. A glimpse under the hood at LANL's Research Library will share approaches and lessons learned in the development of a strategic context to re-examine how well your library is positioned to thrive in chaos.
9:30 to 10:00	Film clips and discussion.
10:00 to 10:30	Morning Break - Visit the Exhibits
10:30 to 11:30	Army Knowledge Management Communities of Practice
11:30 to 12:00	The Army Report will be given by Ann Parham, Librarian of the Army.
12:00 to 1:30	Lunch on your own
1:30 to 2:30	Patricia Breivik will speak on "Information Literacy (IL)." Breivik served as Chair of the National Forum on Information Literacy, an umbrella group of over 80 national and international organizations concerned with the need for people to be able to access and use information effectively. She has authored books on the topic of IL was also the Dean of San Jose State University Library until 2005.
2:30 to 3:00	The DOD/DTIC Report will be given by Carol Jacobson of the Defense Technical Information Center and Lily McGovern of National Defense University Library.
3:00 to 3:30	Afternoon Break
3:30 to 4:30	Teresa Bailey, Librarian at the Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, will speak on "Storytelling in the JPL Library: From Practice to Theory." Bailey has found storytelling to be an effective way to communicate and understand an organization's culture that can help employees develop a sense of organizational identity. She will be assisted by a group from the NAVAIR Technical Library at China Lake, CA.
4:30 to 5:00	The Navy Report will be given by Nellie Moffitt of the Navy General Library Program and James King, Director, Naval Research Lab Library.
6:00 to 9:00	MLW Dinner and entertainment.
Thursday December 8th - "Place Your Bets"
7:30 to 8:30	Registration is open.
7:30 to 8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:30 to 9:30	Keynote Speaker, Jan Yager, "Who's That Sitting At My Desk? How to Succeed by Mastering Work Relationships." Jan Yager uses the word workship to describe the essential work relationship that is more than an acquaintance but less than a friendship. She will cover how to start, and maintain, a workship, how to turn a workship into a friendship, if you think that's advantageous, handling a friendship with your boss or employee, four positive workships that every worker needs, 14 potential foes you may encounter at work and how to deal with them, international concerns, opposite-sex considerations, how to cultivate positive relationships with movers and shakers, dealing with conflict, and how to maintain workships or friendships after a job or career change. Yager has published more than 20 books including Who's That Sitting At My Desk in 2004.
9:30 to 10:00	Film clips and discussion.
10:00 to 10:30	Morning Break
10:30 to 11:30	Michael Loescher will speak on "The Paradox of the Information Revolution - Losing Knowledge and How to Prevent It." Loescher is the Executive Director of the Copernicus Institute. He is the originator of the Navy's Copernicus Architecture, the Service's first Information Warfare doctrines. He is a contributing author to three books on Information Warfare and numerous papers and articles on related topics.
11:30 to 12:00	The SLA Report will be given by Janice Lachance, Executive Director of SLA.
12:00 to 1:30	Luncheon and MLD Awards Business Meeting
1:30 to 3:00	A Knowledge Café will be facilitated by Joan Goppelt and Keith Ray from the People, Process, and Product Resource (P3R) group, a NAVAIR internal support group that provides organizational systems engineering. Goppelt and Ray are experienced internal change agents, facilitators, expert consultants, process consultants, assessors, trainers, and coaches.
3:00 to 3:30	Afternoon Break
3:30 to 4:00	Knowledge Café Wrap Up
4:00 to 5:00	Closing Ceremonies and preview of MLW 2006.
5:00 to 7:00	Optional presentation on Information Warfare. Michael Loescher has given this presentation across the country and he volunteered to add it to the MLW agenda and share it with all who would like to attend.
5:30 to 7:30	Lessons Learned for the MLW Committee
Evening	Dinner and entertainment on your own.
Friday December 9th
7:30 to 8:30	Pick up box breakfast in hotel lobby
8:30 to 5:00	Pick up a grab-and-go breakfast for an all day Tour (approx.) via bus. The morning portion will be a visit to Nellis AFB. Rob Lindley, our librarian host will show us the Library, The Thunderbird Museum, and the Threat Museum. After a lunch break at Sam's Town (Dutch treat), the group will visit the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam area for a tour. We will return to the hotel in the afternoon.