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Want to give back? Volunteer with RUSA!

The RUSA Reference Services Section is looking for committee volunteers.  Members of RSS committees participate in a range of virtual and in-person activities.  These include:

  • Organizing programs
  • Hosting discussion forums
  • Writing and maintaining RUSA Guidelines and Professional Resources that help libraries nationally
  • Developing tutorials, compiling indexes, and writing articles

If you are interested in joining a committee, complete the RUSA Volunteer Form and select RSS at the very bottom of the application.  You may also contact me, the RSS vice-chair, directly.

If you are presently on an RSS committee and your term ends in 2017, please also complete a volunteer form.  Maybe you want to be reappointed to the same committee or you would like to volunteer for a different committee.  If so, you can indicate that on your volunteer form, or, again, you can contact me, the vice-chair.

RSS is dedicated to providing value to its members, including virtual participation.  This allows the flexibility to be active in a national professional organization without the financial commitment to travel to multiple conferences. RSS committees regularly meet online and only meet once face-to-face each year at the ALA Annual Conference.

Please consider volunteering to take an active role in RUSA/RSS.  It truly is rewarding.

Thank you,

Rebecca

Rebecca Jackson, Associate Professor

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect, RUSA Reference Services Section

Head, Social Sciences & Humanities Dept.

Iowa State University Library

rjackson@iastate.edu

515-294-9030

RUSA needs you!

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Are you a CMLE librarian who has some good information to share?? RUSA wants to help you spread your knowledge, skills, and abilities to people all over the place! Submit a proposal for your webinar or online course today!! Members – we are happy to work with you on your proposal and/or your training program; so get your proposals underway!

The Reference and User Services Association, (RUSA) seeks proposals for webinars and online courses. The proposals must be submitted by October 31, 2016 for presentation November 2016 to August 2017.

Submit webinar proposals using this online proposal form; there is a separate submission form for online courses.

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RUSA offers free personal finance webinars

1782358_10152001346422078_1022205994_oThe Reference & User Services Association (RUSA), a division of ALA, recently announced that they are offering three free webinars to expand your user’s knowledge about personal finance. Applicable to high school students, public library users, or anyone who wants to know more about personal finance, these webinars are part of the Smart investing @ your library program. The program addresses the growing need for unbiased financial and investor education. Check them out now, use them at your library, or just bookmark them for later!

6 Fun & Easy Financial Literacy Programs & How to Do Them Watch here
Helping Library Patrons Put Their Financial House in Order Watch here
Beyond the Basics of Personal Finance: Helping Library Patrons Help Themselves Watch here

 

2013 Outstanding Reference Sources!

RUSA LogoReference and User Services Association (RUSA) is an organization of reference and information professionals who strive to make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials.

RUSA has announced its selections for the 2013 Outstanding Reference Sources. This list of titles identifies the most important reference publications for small and medium-sized public and academic libraries published in a given year.

2013 Listen List of Engaging Audiobooks!

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Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has released its 2013 Outstanding Audiobook Narration juried list. This list recognizes and honors the narrators who create extraordinary listening experiences meriting special attention by general adult listeners and the librarians who work with them. Here is the 2013 Listen List of titles you may want to consider recommending to your patrons.