I became interested in parliamentary procedure after a particularly bad meeting, where the presiding officer lost control and members felt like they were not being heard. I decided to learn more to see how I could help make meetings more effective. Since then, I’ve become a Professional Registered Parliamentarian, certified through the National Association of Parliamentarians, and a Certified Professional Parliamentarian through the American Institute of Parliamentarians. I continually study, serve, practice, teach, and enjoy all aspects of parliamentary procedure.
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Bradley Shipps is director of the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), which provides a variety of services to 30 public libraries in northeast Wisconsin. Bradley originally hails from a small town in the snowbelt of central New York and received her master’s in library and information science from the iSchool at Syracuse University before moving to Wisconsin in 2010. Bradley is a member of the Library Development and Legislation Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association. In her free time, Bradley enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, and embarrassing her middle schooler by existing.
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Dawn Tevis holds a Master of Arts in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Liberal Studies in literary nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a communications writer, editor, and program manager and presents workshops focusing on advocacy writing, storytelling, sustainability, and book arts. Dawn serves as Youth Services Coordinator for La Crosse County Library, where she manages youth spaces and staff for the Library’s five locations.
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Kris Turner began working at the Law School Library in January 2012 as a Circulation Assistant and Daytime Supervisor and has since worked as the Reference and Technology Services Librarian and the Head of Reference before becoming the Associate Director of Public Services in 2018. Kris is responsible for managing the reference and access services departments and overseeing outreach, instruction, and research support that the Law Library offers to faculty, law students, and legal researchers.
Kris also works with emerging technology, having taught numerous sessions on GenAI tools and free and low-cost resources for legal and information professionals. Kris teaches Legal Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Law Practice each fall and co-teaches Advanced Legal Research each spring. In May 2025, he was named to Library Journal's annual list of Movers and Shakers, a select group of professionals who are moving librarianship forward in innovative ways.
Kris has served as the president of the Wisconsin Library Association, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin, and on various committees and sections of the American Association of Law Librarians. He has written many articles on topics ranging from space law to professionalism. He previously worked at Madison Public Library and at the Forest Products Laboratory Library. Before entering librarianship, he worked in a busy bankruptcy and personal injury law firm in downtown Chicago and as a teacher in Evanston, Illinois, and Novi, Michigan.
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Tracy Vreeke is the Director at Nicolet Federated Library System. The Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS) is a state-funded organization assisting 15 member public libraries, through 43 library outlets, in providing better services to the people of northeastern Wisconsin since 1976. While Tracy hasn't been there since 1976, she has been at the helm for the last several years. Tracy attained a bachelor's degree from Carroll University in Politics/Russian Studies in 1987. Tracy joined the library world late, graduating from UW Milwaukee SOIS with the class of 2019. In between, she spent time waitressing, backpacking around the globe, stage-managing, blacksmithing, raising a family, owning a restaurant, cataloging at the Door County Library, and of course reading (a lot!).