Tuesday, May 3: The National Viewpoint

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Welcome: Nancy Davenport

9:05 AM Housekeeping: Venetia Demson

9:15 AM Accessible Metro in DC: Brigid Doherty

9:30 AM White House Accessibility Initiatives: Kareem Dale

10:00 AM International Disability Rights: Judith E. Heumann

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM Foreign Language Collections at NLS

David Fernandez-Barrial

11:30 AM ACB Audio Description Project: Joel Snyder

12:00 N Box lunches in the Museum Courtyard

12:45 PM Tour Museum of American Art Highlights

Phoebe Kline, Docent

1:30 PM Web Accessibility and Section 508 Panel

Donald Barrett, John Croston III and William Lawrence

2:30 PM Break

2:45 PM ADA Amendments Act Update for Libraries

Marian Vessels

4:00 PM Serving Veterans and Wounded Warriors

Barbara Pittman

Wednesday, May 4: A Look at the Future

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast


9:00 AM Challenge of Accessible E-Books: James Gashel


9: 30 AM National Broadband Plan, 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act and the Accessibility & Innovation Initiative:Jamal Mazrui


10:15 AM: Break


10:30 AM CSUN Technology Conference Update:Patrick Timony and Neil Bernstein


11:00 AM: Cloud-based Adaptive Technology; Accessible Technology Policy, E- book and i-App Accessibility: Eve Hill


11:45 AM Lunch on your own


12:45 PM: Disability Demographics and Sources: Matthew Brault


1:30 PM NLS Update and Future Operations Report: Ruth Scovill, Carolyn Sung, Steve Prine, Deborah Toomey, MaryBeth Wise and Jane Caulton


3:00 PM Break


3:15 PM


4:00 PM BARD Best Practices: Michael Martys and David Whittall

Adaptive Services Internet Classroom: Chris Corrigan


4:15 PM: Metro Orange or Blue Lines to Reception

Thursday, May 5: Serving our Community

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM Foundation Center Resources; Grants & Library Services for Persons with Disabilities Patricia Pasqual 9:30 AM Institute for Museum & Library Services: Resources & National Medal Michele Farrell & James Lonergan 10:00 AM Teen Reader Advisory Jill Garcia and Elsworth Rockefeller
10:30 AM Learning Ally Update: Courtney Arnold
11:00 AM Sandwich Break
11:20 AM Social Networks & the Blind and Visually Impaired Mika Pyyhkala and Lindsay Yazzolino

12:05 PM NFB-Newsline Update: Renee West
12:35 PM Web Captioning Update Catharine McNally

1:00 PM Partnering with Libraries to Serve Transitioning Students with Print Disabilities Norma Villanueva, Edna Johnson, Melesse Demissay
1:40 PM Bookshare Update: Carl Rand
2:10 PM Northern Conference Annual Meeting & Elections
3:00 PM Final Announcements, Adjourn