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AC 17 Preconference: “We Are All User Experience Librarians: Creating Change from the Trenches”

RUSA’s Emerging Technologies Section (ETS) is hosting “We Are All User Experience Librarians: Creating Change from the Trenches” preconference at ALA’s Annual Conference in Chicago in June. This ticketed event will focus on user testing and experience using discussion, presentations, and interactive exercises. Our presenters will offer strategies and tools from throughout the life cycle of a user experience design project, and will provide an entertaining look at pitfalls to avoid and lessons learned. Unlike other sessions about UX design, the proposed workshop will focus on providing attendees with skills and techniques they can apply at their home institutions with little expense or pre-planning.

Speakers include: Pete Coco, Web Services Librarian, Boston Public Library; Deirdre Costello, User Experience Researcher, EBSCO Information Services; Heidi Steiner Burkhardt, User Experience Specialist, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor; Carrie Moran, User Engagement Librarian, University of Central Florida. More information can be found here.

Ticket prices:

Category Advance Onsite
Member $139 $149
Other Member $129 $139
NonMember $129 $139
RUSA Discount $119 $129

Training Showcase @ Annual – Come show off!

We are still welcoming showcasers, if you want to show off your training abilities. Host a table at the Training Showcase – fun, fast and casual!

Coming to ALA Annual? Is training your superpower?

We would like to invite you to consider hosting a table at our Training Showcase at ALA Annual in Chicago on Sunday, June 25 from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm on the Exhibit Floor.

The showcase is an annual event sponsored by our round table to give trainers and training organizations a chance to showcase best practices in library training, learning, and continuing education. All types of libraries, and staff and public trainers will enjoy coming to learn, share, and meet new people. This year we are going to have a casual, fun, atmosphere with refreshments and prizes for participants who visit tables.

Should you host a table?

The Showcase normally attracts 80-100 attendees – all of whom are interested in training and staff development. Whether you are a training vendor, a library staff trainer, a library consultant, or involved with state, consortium, or national training, you have expertise to share. You will have your own table (at no charge) and will be sharing at least one training tip—on whatever topic you’d like. We will share your contact information so that participants can follow-up. Please let me know if you are interested in participating – we would love to have you as a part of this event!

To get involved and learn more details, contact Angela Glowcheski, glowcheskia@seqlib.org today!

Angela Glowcheski / Public Services Director
glowcheskia@seqlib.org / 770-479-3090
Sequoyah Regional Library System
116 Brown Industrial Parkway Canton, GA  30114″

The 2017 guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards

The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2017 Edition

Contact:

Rob Christopher
Marketing Coordinator
ALA Publishing
American Library Association
(312) 280-5052

CHICAGO—Updated to include the 2017 award and honor books, “The Newbery and Caldecott Awards: A Guide to the Medal and Honor Books, 2017 Edition,” published by ALA Editions, gathers together the books deemed most distinguished in American children’s literature and illustration since the inception of the renowned prizes. Librarians and teachers everywhere rely on this guidebook for quick reference and collection development and also as a resource for curriculum links and readers’ advisory. With an easy-to-use streamlined look and format, the 2017 guide features:

  • a new interview with four-time Caldecott winner Bryan Collier;
  • explanations of criteria used to select the winners;
  • updated bibliographic citations and indexes for the award winners.

For more than eight decades, librarians from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) have intensely scrutinized the children’s books published each year, selecting the winning and honor books for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards. In addition, the ALSC division of the ALA is committed to creating a nation of readers, starting with the youngest. ALSC supports all those providing library services to children, including youth librarians, teachers, families, literature experts, publishers, and child advocates.

ALA Store purchases fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide. ALA Editions publishes resources used worldwide by tens of thousands of library and information professionals to improve programs, build on best practices, develop leadership, and for personal professional development. ALA authors and developers are leaders in their fields, and their content is published in a growing range of print and electronic formats. Contact ALA Editions at (800) 545-2433 ext. 5052 or editionsmarketing@ala.org.

ITEM Fall Conference Call for Proposals – 2017

“Future Ready > 21st Century – Information and Technology Educators of Minnesota
October 12-14, 2017
Minneapolis Marriott Northwest
Brooklyn Park, MN

The Program Committee for the 2017 ITEM Fall Conference is looking for information technology professionals to present 45 minute break out sessions around the theme of Future Ready > 21st Century. We are seeking presentations in the following strands, which promote student and/or staff learning in these areas:

-Communication
-Collaboration
-Critical Thinking
-Creativity
-Citizenship

The lead presenter of each session may choose either a $50 reduction in conference registration cost or a free one year ITEM membership.

This year, all breakout sessions will last 45 minutes. All vendor sessions must be identified.

Proposals will be accepted until this form is scheduled to close on June 2, 2017.

If you have any questions, please contact the ITEM Program Committee at: itemconprogram@gmail.com

SALIS Conference report

We are passing on a conference report from Barbara Weiner, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Library. If you are attending a conference, or any type of training, we would be interested in hearing from you!

Beautiful Worcester, MA was the setting for the 39th annual conference of SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists), May 3-6, 2017.  SALIS is an international network of information professionals working in or interested in the alcohol/drug/addictions field.  SALIS (www.salis.org) and AMHL (Association of Mental Health Librarians) joined forces for continued learning and networking.  Held in the invigorating UMass Medical School teaching hospital, 25 information professionals from four countries had two and one-half days of presentations, with business and committee meetings to round out the busy days.

Barbara Weiner (librarian for Hazelden Betty Ford, Center City, MN) and Sonja Mertz (librarian for MPRC, North Branch, MN) were in attendance.  Sonja also did a fantastic job of planning and co-hosting the conference. Continue reading SALIS Conference report