Report from Interest Group “Bridging Deaf Cultures @ Your Library”
Submitted by Alec C. McFarlane, President, Library for Deaf Action The Interest Group meeting took place on Friday, June 28th at the McCormick Place Convention Center. The meeting came to order with an overflow crowd of more than 50 people in a room booked for half that and represented the largest meeting in this Interest Group’s history. We...
Report from the Library Consultants Interest Group
Submitted by Jeannette Smithee, Executive Director, SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network) The ASCLA Library Consultants Interest Group (LCIG) celebrates an active year and looks forward to another exciting year. The LCIG membership grew along with general ASCLA membership growth. ASCLA as a whole added 55 members in 2012-13 for a 7.4% growth, the highest...
Conference Report from the Interest Group for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementia
Submitted by Mary Beth Riedner, IGARD, Chair First place in the Diversity and Outreach Fair at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Saturday, June 29 was awarded to the Gail Borden Public Library of Elgin, IL for their poster entitled “Remember Me: Serving Persons with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.” The Fair is hosted annually by ALA’s...
Preview of Midwinter Events
2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting: Save the Date The ASCLA Conference Program Planning Committee just completed its review of programs, preconferences and institutes for 2014, and we’re thrilled about what’s coming up at the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia! The meeting will be held Jan. 24-28, and we have some incredibly valuable workshops that will...
Interest Group News
LSTA Coordinator’s Interest Group Are you an LSTA Coordinator? We need your help. Since Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer is now in the role of ASCLA Vice President, she can no longer serve as the coordinator and facilitator of the LSTA Coordinator Interest Group. The responsibilities are to book a day and time for the group to meet at Midwinter and Annual...