Silent auction benefiting ASCLA Century Scholarship a smashing success
A silent auction held at the ASCLA/COSLA reception at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting raised $1,145 to benefit the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Century Scholarship.
ASCLA Members Run for ALA Council
The following ALA Counciler-at-Large candidates are personal members of ASCLA. These names and candidate statements are provided for informational purposes only and imply no endorsement of the candidates. Detailed information about each candidate can also be found in the biography provided with the ALA ballot. View the full list of candidates for the ALA 2009...
SEFLIN Celebrates Ten Years of the Sun Seeker Leadership Institute
By: Jeannette Smithee, Director of Staff Development Services, SEFLIN The tenth anniversary of the SEFLIN Sun Seeker Leadership Institute is being celebrated this year! The Sun Seeker Leadership Institute is one of the first library leadership institutes for emerging leaders which is held as a monthly series of events over the period of a year....
ASLCA/KLAS/NOD Award Goes To “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected”
by Kathleen Hegarty, Chair, ASCLA Awards Committee At the ALA Midwinter Conference, the ASCLA Awards Committee selected as the winner of the ASCLA/KLAS/NOD Award “Libraries and Autism: We’re Connected,” a remarkable project developed by Margaret Kolaya, director of the Scotch Plains Public Library, and Daniel Weiss, director of the Fanwood Memorial Library, both in New...
“Senior Spaces,” the Library Place for Baby Boomers and Older Adults
By Allan M. Kleiman, Chief Consultant, Library Consultant(s)-on-Call, Old Bridge Public Library The “silver tsunami,” is near! The population throughout the United States aged sixty and older is projected to grow substantially in the near future as the baby boomer generation (those born between 1946 and 1964) reach retirement age. In 2000 there were 1,443,800...