Pre Conference 2011

Stacey A. Aldrich Vice-President of ASCLA

Stacey A. Aldrich, state librarian of California, has been elected vice-president/president elect of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies. Prior to becoming the state librarian of California, Aldrich was the deputy state librarian. She has also worked as the assistant director of the Omaha Public Library, and both a public library consultant and...

ASCLA Board Meeting Schedule in New Orleans

If you want to learn more about what is going on around ASCLA, you may want to attend the Board Meetings that are held during the Annual Conference.  The ASCLA Board of Directors will be meeting in the Morial Convention Center – Room 242 for the following sessions: Session I: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 4:00 p.m. –...

Youth Services Wiki and ALA Annual Meetup

Submitted by Diane Walden, LSPF Vice-Chair Join the conversation for librarians providing library services to incarcerated and detained youth at a new wiki and a meetup in New Orleans. The Library Services to Incarcerated Youth wiki was created to address the issue that youth are incarcerated or detained with little or no access to high-interest material and...

Join ILEX for Exciting Programs in New Orleans

Submitted by Nancy Bolt, ILEX Chair ASCLA’s Independent Librarian’s Exchange (ILEX) will host exciting programs in New Orleans:  the last Assembling a Consulting Toolkit preconference; Consulting from Both Sides of the Fence: Why Libraries Hire Consultants and How Consultants Get Jobs, our Sunday morning program; Consultants Giving Back, a chance for a private, free, one-on-one...

Thanks! . . . And Let It Roll

Thanks to everyone that sent articles for this issue of Interface.  We look forward now to the POST Conference issue, where we will be able to report on all of the programs, meetings, and events.  Please keep Interface in mind as you make you way around the Conference and remember to send in your articles...