9:00-10:00     Registration & coffee

10:00-11:15     Understanding the Teenage Mind with Dr. Elizabeth Jorgensen

• If you missed this fabulous presentation at the annual CLA conference now is your       chance to get all of the information you've been wanting to know about the brains of teenagers! Dr. Jorgensen has 26 years of experience as an adolescent counselor and will give tips on how to understand and work with teens in this age of the Internet, social networking, texting, and TV.

11:15-12:00     "Lightning Presentations"

• Making and Keeping Partnerships
• Pinterest for Libraries

12:00-1:00     Lunch (included), tour of the Wallingford Library

1:00-1:15     YA Section business

1:15-1:30     Information about the new Nutmeg high school level with Anne Marie Salerno

1:30-3:00     Thinking Big and Going Deep: Finding Your Place and Purpose with Gretchen Kolderup

• Gretchen Kolderup is the Teen Services Librarian at the New Canaan Library, where she has been building the teen services program from the ground up. She is also the manager of YALSA's YA literature-focused blog, The Hub, and is the chair of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults. She blogs sporadically at www.librarified.net. A patron once described Gretchen's job as being "in charge of fun," and she takes that responsibility seriously.