NCIBA Spring Gathering - April 10, 2016
The NCIBA produces an annual spring workshop—a daylong program which includes a variety of sessions dealing with topics of concern to our members. Additional workshops and seminars are also presented at our annual Fall Discovery Show.
Program details:
8:30-9:00 Registration & continental breakfast
Come early, pick up your badge, say hi to friends, and enjoy coffee, fruit, and pastries.
9:00-10:00 ABA Forum
ABA CEO Oren Teicher will lead an open forum and discussion of industry issues. Attendees help guide the agenda of the forum, so please come with questions and comments.
10:15 – 11:45 ABA presents: Indie Bookstores and the New Localism: What You Can Do
Data from a recent study, commissioned by ABA, suggests that the localism movement is now at a transition point, and that indie booksellers, indie retailers, and our colleagues in the Shop Local/Local First movement have an opportunity to refocus their efforts and bring about real change in public policy and perception. During this session, ABA will report on the Civic Economics study "Amazon and Empty Storefronts: The Fiscal and Land Use Impact of Online Retail," and provide important resources and data to empower everyone connected with independent bookselling to communicate the “new” localism message to colleagues, customers, community members, elected officials, and the media.
10:15-11:45 IBD Lounge – Idea Exchange for Independent Bookstore Day April 30th
Tools will be available for you write down what worked for you in the past, what you want to do this year, any great ideas you want to share to help boost this national program and create even more success for all those participating.
Come early, pick up your badge, say hi to friends, and enjoy coffee, fruit, and pastries.
9:00-10:00 ABA Forum
ABA CEO Oren Teicher will lead an open forum and discussion of industry issues. Attendees help guide the agenda of the forum, so please come with questions and comments.
10:15 – 11:45 ABA presents: Indie Bookstores and the New Localism: What You Can Do
Data from a recent study, commissioned by ABA, suggests that the localism movement is now at a transition point, and that indie booksellers, indie retailers, and our colleagues in the Shop Local/Local First movement have an opportunity to refocus their efforts and bring about real change in public policy and perception. During this session, ABA will report on the Civic Economics study "Amazon and Empty Storefronts: The Fiscal and Land Use Impact of Online Retail," and provide important resources and data to empower everyone connected with independent bookselling to communicate the “new” localism message to colleagues, customers, community members, elected officials, and the media.
10:15-11:45 IBD Lounge – Idea Exchange for Independent Bookstore Day April 30th
Tools will be available for you write down what worked for you in the past, what you want to do this year, any great ideas you want to share to help boost this national program and create even more success for all those participating.
IBD Totes and Tees For Sale!
Our Spring Gathering is the perfect time and place to stock up on Independent Bookstore Day tote bags ($7) and t-shirts ($10).
Bring a check and buy what you need - the totes make great souvenirs for your customers and a great identifier for your staff.
Our Spring Gathering is the perfect time and place to stock up on Independent Bookstore Day tote bags ($7) and t-shirts ($10).
Bring a check and buy what you need - the totes make great souvenirs for your customers and a great identifier for your staff.
11:45-12:30 Author Reception
We have shifted the location and format this year but as always it’s BYOB — Bring Your Own Bookbag! We’ve invited #? authors and illustrators, all with new titles-in stores now or soon on the way-to meet you all and sign copies of their books or galleys. This is a great opportunity to chat with the authors and to introduce them to your stores. We’ve also invited our guests to join us for lunch following the Reception-perhaps even share a table with them, extending the time for folks to get to know each other.
*Many of these authors will be NCIBA Book of the Year Nominees for 2017.
Confirmed so far-more to come!
Yaa Gyasi- Homegoing (Knopf)
Elizabeth Percer -All Stories are Love Stories (Harper)
Kathy Parks -The Lifeboat Clique (Katherine Tegen Books)
Steven Rowley-Lily and the Octopus (Simon & Schuster)
Kim Addonizio-Bukowski in a Sun Dress (Penguin)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal-Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Dutton)
John Brooks-The Girl Behind The Door (Scribner)
Mike Wu-The Oodlethunks: Oona Finds an Egg (Scholastic)
Ramona Ausubel- Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Penguin)
Arree Chung - Ninja Attack of the Clan (Henry Holt & Co.)
Adam McCauley - Are We There Yet? (Chronicle Books)
Steve Goetz & Eda Kaban - Old McDonald Had a Truck (Chronicle Books)
Mauro Javier Cardenas- The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press)
Tim Murphy - Christodora (Grove Atlantic)
Paula Treick DeBoard - The Drowning Girls (Mira)
Brenda Novak - The Secrets She Kept (Mira)
David Swinson - The Second Girl (Mulholland Books)
Ben H. Winters - Underground Airlines (Mulholland Books)
Joe Ide - IQ (Milholland Books)
Renee Patrick (Rosemarie & Vince Keenan) - Design for Dying (Forge)
Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By (Holt)
12:30-1:30 Buffet Lunch
Café Rx once again is providing locally grown, sustainable, and organic ingredient-filled dishes.
1:45-2:45 Rep Picks
We’ve invited some local sales reps to talk about some highlights from their Spring and/or Summer lists. There will be three separate bookseller clusters and reps will visit each in rotation. They move, you sit — bring your notebooks!
3:00-4:00 Creating a Welcoming Environment for Readers With Special Needs - A Children's bookseller's dilemma solved
Kathy Shepler, school librarian and Aurora School and longtime NCCBA member, Kathy Briccetti, school psychologist, author and parent, Amy Cheney, OUSC district library manager, former Juvenile Hall librarian, Shannon des Roches, parent. Moderator: Luan Stauss, owner Laurel Book Store in Oakland
The special needs community is surprisingly vast, from those with a physical or mental disability to those in search of mirror books for minority readers. Luckily books can be great therapy. But what books are best and is there appropriate language to discuss sensitive topics? Our panel—bibliotherapist, bookseller, parent and/or librarian—will offer solutions to help all customers feel at home in your store, including training staff and curating a thoughtful inventory to address autism, grieving, bullying, gender identity, and other concerns beyond the mainstream.
3:00-4:00 Finding Great Booksellers & Keeping Them Happy
Panelists: Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books, innovative programming-Amy Stephenson, Booksmith/Shipwreck, innovative programming-Louise Barros, Bookshop Santa Cruz, receiving, back-of-the-house innovation. Moderator: Tina Ferguson, Face in a Book
How do you hire and then keep good booksellers given the limited pay? Are there other motivators for working in a bookstore? Autonomy, creative projects, flexibility, proximity to books and authors…what are the things that sweeten the pie? Come learn what other bookstores are doing to hire and keep the best. And what are some of the things you’ve done?
4:15 – Please join us as we raise a glass* to say farewell to the beautiful amazing space here in the Presidio that has served the NCIBA office and the membership so spectacularly well over many years!
We will also announce the NCIBA Books of the Year-posters available for stores at that time (perhaps even have an author or two on hand to accept their awards).
Local publishers Yellow Pear Press (distributed by PGW) will be on hand to showcase their title:
Farmsteads of the California Coast . Meet the publisher, the author and even a photographer.
Enjoy food featured from the books.
*Wine Donated by Trione Family Vineyards and Winery
We have shifted the location and format this year but as always it’s BYOB — Bring Your Own Bookbag! We’ve invited #? authors and illustrators, all with new titles-in stores now or soon on the way-to meet you all and sign copies of their books or galleys. This is a great opportunity to chat with the authors and to introduce them to your stores. We’ve also invited our guests to join us for lunch following the Reception-perhaps even share a table with them, extending the time for folks to get to know each other.
*Many of these authors will be NCIBA Book of the Year Nominees for 2017.
Confirmed so far-more to come!
Yaa Gyasi- Homegoing (Knopf)
Elizabeth Percer -All Stories are Love Stories (Harper)
Kathy Parks -The Lifeboat Clique (Katherine Tegen Books)
Steven Rowley-Lily and the Octopus (Simon & Schuster)
Kim Addonizio-Bukowski in a Sun Dress (Penguin)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal-Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal (Dutton)
John Brooks-The Girl Behind The Door (Scribner)
Mike Wu-The Oodlethunks: Oona Finds an Egg (Scholastic)
Ramona Ausubel- Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Penguin)
Arree Chung - Ninja Attack of the Clan (Henry Holt & Co.)
Adam McCauley - Are We There Yet? (Chronicle Books)
Steve Goetz & Eda Kaban - Old McDonald Had a Truck (Chronicle Books)
Mauro Javier Cardenas- The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press)
Tim Murphy - Christodora (Grove Atlantic)
Paula Treick DeBoard - The Drowning Girls (Mira)
Brenda Novak - The Secrets She Kept (Mira)
David Swinson - The Second Girl (Mulholland Books)
Ben H. Winters - Underground Airlines (Mulholland Books)
Joe Ide - IQ (Milholland Books)
Renee Patrick (Rosemarie & Vince Keenan) - Design for Dying (Forge)
Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By (Holt)
12:30-1:30 Buffet Lunch
Café Rx once again is providing locally grown, sustainable, and organic ingredient-filled dishes.
1:45-2:45 Rep Picks
We’ve invited some local sales reps to talk about some highlights from their Spring and/or Summer lists. There will be three separate bookseller clusters and reps will visit each in rotation. They move, you sit — bring your notebooks!
3:00-4:00 Creating a Welcoming Environment for Readers With Special Needs - A Children's bookseller's dilemma solved
Kathy Shepler, school librarian and Aurora School and longtime NCCBA member, Kathy Briccetti, school psychologist, author and parent, Amy Cheney, OUSC district library manager, former Juvenile Hall librarian, Shannon des Roches, parent. Moderator: Luan Stauss, owner Laurel Book Store in Oakland
The special needs community is surprisingly vast, from those with a physical or mental disability to those in search of mirror books for minority readers. Luckily books can be great therapy. But what books are best and is there appropriate language to discuss sensitive topics? Our panel—bibliotherapist, bookseller, parent and/or librarian—will offer solutions to help all customers feel at home in your store, including training staff and curating a thoughtful inventory to address autism, grieving, bullying, gender identity, and other concerns beyond the mainstream.
3:00-4:00 Finding Great Booksellers & Keeping Them Happy
Panelists: Stephen Sparks, Green Apple Books, innovative programming-Amy Stephenson, Booksmith/Shipwreck, innovative programming-Louise Barros, Bookshop Santa Cruz, receiving, back-of-the-house innovation. Moderator: Tina Ferguson, Face in a Book
How do you hire and then keep good booksellers given the limited pay? Are there other motivators for working in a bookstore? Autonomy, creative projects, flexibility, proximity to books and authors…what are the things that sweeten the pie? Come learn what other bookstores are doing to hire and keep the best. And what are some of the things you’ve done?
4:15 – Please join us as we raise a glass* to say farewell to the beautiful amazing space here in the Presidio that has served the NCIBA office and the membership so spectacularly well over many years!
We will also announce the NCIBA Books of the Year-posters available for stores at that time (perhaps even have an author or two on hand to accept their awards).
Local publishers Yellow Pear Press (distributed by PGW) will be on hand to showcase their title:
Farmsteads of the California Coast . Meet the publisher, the author and even a photographer.
Enjoy food featured from the books.
*Wine Donated by Trione Family Vineyards and Winery
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Where? The Thoreau Center (Presidio National Park)
Follow directions to the NCIBA office. The parking lot entrance is on Edie Road at the back of the building. Parking is $8.00 for the day. |
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