Category Archives: Annual Conference

NEWS: Innovation at your library: ASCLA workshops, programming and events at the ALA Annual Conference

May 23, 2013 – 9:34 pm

The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a small and mighty division of ALA, will offer innovative and insightful preconferences, programs and events at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference; this year’s topics include disaster response, leadership development, effective decision-making, accessibility, services to older adults, arts programs for incarcerated youth and service evaluation. Participants in ASCLA’s [...]

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ASCLA hosts prison library tour at 2013 ALA Annual Conference

May 17, 2013 – 11:44 am

Going to ALA Annual 2013 in Chicago? Want to find out more about the world of juvenile corrections & juvenile correctional librarianship in general? Are you already working in the field, and interested in seeing how another juvenile correctional facility library operates?  ASCLA and Library Services for Youth in Custody (LSYC) are co-sponsoring and hosting a [...]

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Contribute to the discussion: Consortium Management Interest Group meeting at ALA Annual Conference

April 30, 2013 – 4:08 pm

If you are interested in sharing an update on your library consortium at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference–whether it is a new direction, a new service or a new approach to providing services, or even to demonstrate the challenges you are facing–please contact Sheryl Knab, chair of the ASCLA Consortium Management Interest Group and executive [...]

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Collaborative Digitization: Call for Presentations

April 30, 2013 – 11:43 am

ASCLA’s ICAN (Interlibrary Cooperation and Networking) Collaborative Digitization Interest Group is soliciting proposals for presentations at its meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Saturday, June 29, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Add the meeting to your conference schedule (ALA Connect login required). Presentation topics should be of interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and developers working across a diverse array [...]

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“Ports in a Storm” Preconference: A new, community-focused approach to library disaster planning

April 23, 2013 – 1:37 pm

When disaster strikes, where can the members of your community go for assistance? What does your community need in the wake of a hurricane, an earthquake or terrorist attack? How can you prepare your library to provide the answers to both of these highly relevant questions? On Friday, June 28, the Association of Specialized and Cooperative [...]

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Call for Proposals: ASCLA programs, preconferences and institutes for 2014

April 22, 2013 – 5:14 pm

ASCLA is now accepting proposals for: Institutes for the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia Preconferences for the 2014 Annual Conference in Las Vegas Programs for the 2014 Annual Conference in Las Vegas Institutes and preconferences are ticketed events held on the Friday of the conference. Programs are held throughout the Annual Conference and are [...]

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Library Consultants: Sign up by April 30 to participate in Consultants Give Back event at ALA Annual Conference

April 5, 2013 – 4:13 pm

The ASCLA Library Consultants Interest Group (LCIG) will again be sponsoring Consultants Give Back (CGB) at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. We are currently seeking library consultants to participate in this event. This year’s sign-up process will be slightly different from previous years: we will now be using a website, www.consultantsgiveback.org, developed [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Strategies for Storytelling: Get Storied’s Michael Margolis empowers libraries at ASCLA President’s Program

March 29, 2013 – 11:38 am

CHICAGO — Michael Margolis, CEO of Get Storied, will offer strategies for crafting powerful stories about the value of libraries at “Storytelling Mojo: Creating the 21st Century Library Narrative” – the 2013 President’s Program hosted by the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of ALA. The ASCLA President’s Program will focus on how we can think strategically about how [...]

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ASCLA preconferences at ALA Annual Conference cover disaster response, servant leadership and resource sharing

February 11, 2013 – 11:36 am

The Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of ALA, will host three workshops at the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Chicago covering important topics like disaster response, servant leadership and resource sharing. Add any of these events to your conference registration *or* you can register for this event without attending the [...]

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Save the Date: ASCLA/RUSA preconference tackles innovations in resource sharing for academic and public libraries

November 6, 2012 – 3:34 pm

Calling all resource-sharing professionals! ASCLA’s Physical Delivery Interest Group and RUSA’s Rethinking Resource Sharing Steering Committee have teamed up to bring you “Discovery to Delivery: Rethinking Resource Sharing”, a full day preconference to be held at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Save the date for this workshop, which will be held Friday, Jun. [...]

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