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March 12, 2009

Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the 1909 Copyright Act

Santa Clara University School of Law
April 30, 2009

Join two dozen distinguished scholars and practitioners to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 1909 Act and its profound effect on U.S. and international copyright law.

The 1909 Copyright Act marked a revolution in U.S. copyright law. The 1909 Act was the first to protect works upon publication with notice, without prior registration; the first to expressly recognize a right to prepare derivative works; and the first to expressly recognize the public domain. The 1909 Act remained in effect for seven decades, during which time copyright law was repeatedly called upon to deal with the disruptive effect of new technologies, such as motion pictures, sound recordings, radio and television, photocopy machines, and computers. As a result, the 1909 Act had a significant influence on the copyright law we have today.

Keynote Speakers:

David Nimmer, Of Counsel, Irell & Manella
William Patry, Senior Counsel, Google
Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office

Attendance is free and open to the public. Seven hours of CLE will be available to attorneys at HTLI benefactor firms and in-house counsel for free, to Santa Clara Law alumni for $25, and to everyone else for $50. If paying for CLE is a hardship, please contact Cindy Tippett at ctippett@scu.edu. Santa Clara Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.

For more information or to register, please visit:
http://law.scu.edu/hightech/copyright-conference.cfm

March 10, 2009

Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government 2009 Sunshine Week Program

NOCALL GRC and SLA Sierra-Nevada Region Present
Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government 2009 Sunshine Week Program

When: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Where: Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Gordon D. Schaber Library
3282 Fifth Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95817

Registration Fee: $15.00, which includes both Continental Breakfast and Lunch ($18.00 at the door).

Parking is free. Link to the map for Parking Areas A-J and the Library's location on campus at: http://www.mcgeorge.edu/x436.xml.

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February 23, 2009

The CLA Spring Fling

Training, Networking, and More!

Fling into Spring with the California Library Association's new professional development and networking program!

Join us at a Spring Fling event and learn new skills, enjoy a cultural event, and find people who share your interests.

Programs will take place across the state from San Francisco to Encinitas. They range from training workshops to author talks and social activities. All events are presented by CLA sections and round tables.

Full information, including a registration form, is available on our Spring Fling Page.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet up with colleagues and develop your skills. Places are limited, so sign up soon!

Any questions? Please email Natalie Cole at ncole@cla-net.org.

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January 16, 2009

My Privacy: Safely Navigating Life Online

On the evening of Wednesday, January 28, in support of the second annual Data Privacy Day, Microsoft will host an interactive event around online privacy concerns, guidance and solutions. "My Privacy: Safely Navigating Life Online" will take place in the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Library. As our online world evolves, the risks to and feelings about individual privacy also changes. Microsoft believes it is important for different constituencies to share their understanding of privacy concerns to ensure that Internet users from all walks of life are educated and aware of the available privacy choices.

The event will begin with the presentation of a brief documentary based on the findings from a recent focus groups discussing their feelings about online privacy. Issues like cyberbullying, identity theft, online reputation management, and targeted online advertising all play a role in the everyday choices and challenges the focus group participants face. Following the documentary, BBC's Maggie Shiels will host a lively panel discussion, including panelists Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace Chief Security Officer; Joanne McNabb, California Privacy Chief; Peter Cullen, Microsoft's Chief Privacy Strategist and Jim Dempsey, Vice President for public policy for the Center for Democracy and Technology who will provide their point of view on online privacy. The event will be open to the public, and all are welcome to take part in the discussion. For further information, please visit: microsoft.com/dataprivacyday.

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June 10, 2008

Space Available at the Advocacy Institute

Space is still available for the Advocacy Institute at ALA's 2008 Annual Conference. "School Libraries in Crisis: Why Everyone Should Care," will take place on Friday, June 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Grand Ballroom E/F at the Hyatt Regency Orange County) during the 2008 Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. Those not yet registered can reserve their spot now through June 20.

"Spokane Moms" Lisa Layera Brunkan, Denette Hill, and Susan McBurney, founders of the Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology, a grassroots initiative that raised $4 million for school libraries in Washington state, are among the featured guests of the program.
Members from all facets of the library community are encouraged to attend. Attendees will learn how the crisis in school libraries can affect libraries of all types, and how to leverage this crisis into their own advocacy campaigns.

Registration fee is $75 and includes lunch. The I Love Libraries "Advocate's Package" includes limited admission to the ALA Annual Conference (including exhibits, opening general session, and more), and is available for $100. For more information on the "Exhibits Supreme" package, visit www.ala.org/advocacyinstitute. To reserve your space today, please contact Marci Merola, Director, ALA Office for Library Advocacy at 800-545-2433, ext. 2431 or email advocacy@ala.org by June 20.

The Advocacy Institute in Anaheim, California, is co-sponsored by the California Library Association (CLA), the California School Library Association (CSLA), and the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). It is coordinated by the Office for Library Advocacy (OLA), the OLA Advocacy Committee, the Advocacy Institute Task Force and the Library Advocacy Now! Training Subcommittee, in cooperation with the ALA Public Information Office (PIO), the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA), the Chapter Relations Committee, the Washington Office's Committee on Legislation, and Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA).

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May 22, 2008

Emerging Leaders Scholarship Opportunity

CLA is offering a scholarship to participate in ALA's Emerging Leaders Program!

This program is designed to enable more than 100 new librarians to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership. Participants are given the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, network with peers and get an inside look into ALA structure and activities.

In order to be eligible for participation in the program, you must meet the following criteria:

Be under 35 years of age or be a new librarian of any age with fewer than 5 years post-MLS experience, and
Have a recent MLS degree from an ALA or NCATE accredited program or be in an MLS program currently, and
Be able to attend both ALA conferences and work virtually in between each,
Be prepared to commit to serve on an ALA, Division, Chapter or Round Table committee, taskforce or workgroup upon completion of program, and
Be an ALA member or join upon selection if not already a member.

To apply for the CLA scholarship, valued at $1500, you must also be a CLA member.

The scholarship application form is online at http://cla-net.org/included/docs/EmergingLeadersRegForm.pdf. To learn more about the Emerging Leaders Program, visit wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders.

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE JUNE 20, 2008.

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May 15, 2008

CLA Second Life Q & A Panel

Client Side Information Literacy: The Challenge of a New Century

What: First California Library Association Program in Second Life: a panel with Q & A. A Free Session

When: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. SLT (PST) Come in-world at 5:30 p.m. to test your SL voice tool.

Where: Coliseum, Talis Cybrary Island, Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Talis%20Cybrary%20Island/190/137/23/

Speakers:
Dr. David V. Loertscher, Professor, School of Library and information Science, San Jose State University

Robin T. Williams, Graduate Student, School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University

Moderator, Rebecca Feind, Information Literacy Coordinator, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose State University

Description:
So you have conducted library orientation for many years. You have taught a one credit class for freshmen in information literacy. You have responded when professors wanted you to teach reference or database tools to their classes. These traditional approaches to information literacy are now eclipsed by users who just ignore the library and Google it. What is the result? How much of what we teach to our users actually ends up in their research papers? Does the use of library resources actually increase the amount learned? Does it help students be more efficient? Such questions require us to think and rethink our role as librarians in the information game and explore ways of actually making a difference in teaching and learning. Robin and Dave will explore ideas of turning the teaching of information literacy from a Microsoft model of doing business into a more Google-like approach where the idea is not: if we build it they will come; to: If they build it, they will use it. It requires all of us to consider carefully the mirror image of our traditional approaches; a shift in thinking; but, one that is central to the role of what an information professional is in an information-rich and technology-rich world.

Need Help? Go to Secondlife.com to get an avatar prior to the program. If you would like orientation with the Second Life program, contact Sandra Vella at savella@lib.ucdavis.edu or IM her avatar Agnesa Capalini in Second Life.

Biographies:

Dr. David V. Loertscher is Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University. He has a Ph.D.(Library Science) from Indiana University, a M.L. (Librarianship), University of Washington and a B.S. (History) from the University of Utah. He has been a school library media specialist in Nevada and Idaho at both the elementary and secondary school levels and is the author of many books and articles. For his CV see http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/loertscherd/loertscherd.php

Robin T. Williams taught high School and elementary school for 13 years in California and Moscow, Russia. She is currently in her last semester as a graduate student at San Jose State University in the School of Library and Information Science MLIS program with an emphasis in School Librarianship. She has been a technology consultant and leader since 1984. This year she presented for ISTE twice in Second Life (SL), was a project manager and builder for Knowville 3D and was a builder and leader on the San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science Virtual Campus. Robin has been a virtual world resident and leader since 1997 and currently is an Intern with Sun Microsystems in Second Life. She is Greylin Fairweather in SL and recently co-authored a book with Dr. Loertscher entitled, In Command!
Kids and Teens Build Their Own Information Spaces and Learn to Manage Themselves in Those Spaces. She and Dr. Loertscher presented the concepts in the book at Treasure Mountain Retreat, and at the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) annual conference.

Rebecca Feind in RL, Owynne Writer in SL, has been practicing various forms of reference in the humanities and social sciences for 15 years. She has a B.A. from DePaul University and an MLS from the University of Missouri. Her approach to library instruction is inspired by Carol Collier Kuhlthau's theory of engaging uncertainty during the information search process.

Program Sponsors: This program was developed by the CLA Mentoring Committee in collaboration with the CLA Special Project Using Second Life.

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March 27, 2008

CLA Members Get Discount at Book Expo America

Book Expo America, the country's largest book fair, will be May 29-June 1 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. BEA has something for everyone - and a lot to offer librarians:

Over 1,000 authors to meet, greet and get autographs from including Neil Gaiman, Alec Bladwin, Michael Moore, Dennis Lehane and many more.
120+ Educational Programs including the Library Journal Day of Dialog
Special Events that are entertaining as well as educational including Saturday Night with Lewis Black, Authors Breakfast/Luncheons, Upfront & Unscripted with Jeff Bezos and Chris Anderson.
Books, Books, and more Books - You may even need another suitcase!
Savings - Take advantage of show discounts

Registration is easy, simply go to the CLA Registration webpage to receive the discount.

The CLA discount price is $45 for one day and $65 for three days. For more information, contact Reka Rubin, rprubin@verizon.net, PH: 203-840-5896.

Posted by claadmin at 9:38 AM

March 7, 2008

Library Journal's Design Institute at SFPL in May, first-time on West Coast

Library Journal's Design Institute, a one-day think tank of librarians, leading architects, designers and vendors, is May 9 at the San Francisco Public Library. Previously held in New York and Chicago, this is the first time the innovative library building seminar will be held on the west coast.

Dubbed "Going Green," and co-sponsored by the California State Library and the San Francisco Public Library, the May 9 Library Journal Design Institute will address energy conservation and the recycle-repurpose-reuse dictate for today's library building programs. Through discussions, hands-on activities, and presentations, participants in all phases of the library building process will discover cutting-edge and economical solutions for green library construction.

State Librarian Susan Hildreth says, "It's great that Library Journal is holding this inventive and solution-based seminar in San Francisco. I encourage everyone who is involved in a building project, or who is thinking about one, to come join us on this invaluable day."

Library Journal's Design Institute at the San Francisco Public Library is limited to 100 attendees. For more information, please contact LJthinktank@reedbusiness.com.

Posted by claadmin at 2:37 PM

February 25, 2008

Stanford hosting MLA's Web 2.0 webcast on March 5th

Come to the beautiful Stanford campus and attend the Medical Library Association webcast, Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web, on Wednesday, March 5th. The goal of this program is to provide a basic understanding of web 2.0 terminology and concepts, assess the effect of the technology on heath sciences library services, and identify the impact of web 2.0 services on health care today and the coming future. (Detailed agenda and speaker bios are available at http://www.mlanet.org/education/distance_ed/web2.0/.)

The webcast will air from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the Medical Center campus in room M104; doors open at 10:30. Attendees are eligible for 2.0 Medical Library Association continuing education units. To offset the cost of hosting, there is a $10 fee; library school students may attend for free with ID.

Directions From 280:
*Take Sand Hill Road exit.
* Follow Sand Hill inland (east) about 2 miles.
* Turn right on Pasteur Drive.

Directions From 101:
* Take University exit toward Stanford University.
* Follow University Avenue and cross El Camino. At El Camino, University Avenue changes to Palm Drive. You are on Stanford Campus, and palm trees line the roadway.
* Turn right on Arboretum (first right turn after crossing El Camino).
* Follow Arboretum, passing the shopping center, until it dead ends at Sand Hill Road.
* Turn left on Sand Hill Road.
* Turn left on Pasteur Drive.

Shuttle:
The free Stanford Marguerite shuttle can bring you to the Medical School from the CalTrain Palo Alto station, or the Stanford Mall. Take the A Line or B CounterClockwise Line to the Medical School stop. More info on shuttle schedules at: http://transportation.stanford.edu/marguerite/. Alternatively, parking is available at the Stanford Hospital lot for up to 6 hours for $6.

MAP:
Lane and the M104 classroom appear on this map: http://lane.stanford.edu/services/access/map-learning-spaces.html?template=none.

Questions? Contact: Kim Schwartz, kim.schwartz@stanford.edu, 650.725.4579, Lane Medical Library & Knowledge Management Ctr, http://lane.stanford.edu.

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February 14, 2008

XML for Librarians Workshop

CLA-ACTSS and NCTPG are co-sponsoring a full day workshop titled XML for Librarians, to be held at Santa Clara University on May 30th. XML, extensible markup language, is becoming increasingly more important as librarians provide metadata for their digital collections. This workshop is oriented toward the library environment, and will be especially useful to catalogers and digital librarians.

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October 15, 2007

Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop (SCCTP)

This two-day course, taught by Adolfo Tarango (UCSD) and Manuel Urrizola (UCR), provides the basic principles ofserials cataloging for original and copy cataloging for print and electronic serials. The course focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER core record, including appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making relative to serials cataloging.

In addition, a special guest trainer, Meliss Beck (UCLA), will offer a session on the CONSER standard record. All materials are based on the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual.

Audience:
The course is designed for those new to serials (and anyone needing a refresher course), including beginning serials catalogers and technicians and monograph catalogers working with serials.

This session will be particularly useful for catalogers wishing to learn about how the new CONSER Standard Record will help them with their cataloging.

Registration Form (361k)

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May 3, 2007

Second Life Event to Be Simulcast In-World

Good news! The Academic Section's spring event, "A Librarian Avatar in Second Life," presented by Esther Grassian, will be available for viewing on Info Island in Second Life. To attend in-world instead of in-person, you must be an SL member and have an avatar. You should also visit SL a few days before the event so that you know how to get to Info Island.

The in-world event is free, but space is limited on the island, so please RSVP to Barbara Quarton bquarton@csusb.edu if you plan to attend. The in-world event will be on June 1, 2007, 10-12 noon in Second Life http://secondlife.com/.

We welcome experienced SL avatars, but please be aware that the program is geared to newcomers to Second Life.

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April 27, 2007

Leading from Any Position Workshop

Back by popular demand!

The CLA Continuing Education Committee, Management Services Section, and Public Libraries Section invite you to attend the workshop Leading from any Position, May 22-23 at the Torrance Public Library. Featuring international library trainers Becky Schreiber and John Shannon, this workshop will help librarians develop practical leadership skills no matter what position they hold.

Here's what last year's attendees from northern California had to say about this unique learning opportunity:

"One of the best practical, hands-on training...I can take back a new skill to my library."

"Great, great program!"

"Excellent presenters! I am definitely going to use some of these ideas!"

"This kind of training belongs to everyone, so I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues."

"I enjoyed the high level of interactivity. John and Becky were engaging presenters. I appreciated their practical perspective..."

"This was a great workshop! Lots of good ideas and techniques to try! Thank you!"

Workshop details and registration information are on CLA's website. Hurry! Space and registration period is limited!

Registration Form (410k)
Workshop Details (28k)

Heather Pizzuto
Library Director
Carlsbad City Library
(760) 602-2056

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April 23, 2007

A Librarian Avatar in Second Life

The Academic Section of CLA is pleased to announce its Spring 2007 program: A Librarian Avatar in Second Life.

Discover the many sides of Second Life with our avatar-presenter, Esther Grassian (UCLA). Esther Grassian is the Information and Literacy Outreach Coordinator for the College Library at UCLA.

When: June 1, 2007 9:15 AM - 12:00 Noon
Continental breakfast followed by presentation

Where: California State University Dominguez Hills Campus. CSUDH is located in Carson, CA. Visit: http://www.csudh.edu/site/VisitUs/Maps.aps for campus map. One day parking passes are available for $3.00.

Cost: CLA & CARL members $12.00; Non-members $15.00

Space is limited - Register today! Deadline is May 21, 2007, or until filled. Make checks payable to CLA-Academic Section and send to:

Ginny Evans-Perry, MLIS
701 S. Mt. Vernon Ave.
San Bernardino, CA 92410

Receipts will be available on the day of event. Any questions? Please contact Ginny Evans-Perry at gperry@valleycollege.edu or at 909.384-8699.

Please include the following with your registration payment:

Name:

Institution:

CLA Member ________ or CARL Member ___________

Additional support for this program provided by California Academic & Research Libraries.

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March 20, 2007

Metadata Standards and Applications Workshop

The Access, Collections, and Technical Services Section of the California Library Association (CLA ACTSS) is sponsoring an ALCTS/LC workshop "Metadata Standards and Applications" on April 25-26 in Davis, California.

This two-day workshop is the second course in the series "Cataloging for the 21st Century." The goal of the course is to relate what attendees already know about library catalog metadata to digital library metadata, thereby preparing them to apply their current knowledge to new areas. The course explores the following topics:

Introduction to digital libraries
Metadata models
Overview of metadata standards and applications
Metadata interoperability and distribution
Controlled vocabulary use in metadata
Application profiles
Quality considerations and monitoring metadata developments

This course is designed for practicing catalogers (with or without MLS
degrees) from all types of libraries, with a working knowledge of MARC and concepts of bibliographic control.

Luiz Mendes (Electronic Resources Librarian) and Mary Woodley (Collection Development Coordinator), from California State University, Northridge, will be the instructors for the course.

The workshop is limited to 25 people. Registration fee is $150 (CLA members) or $190 (non-CLA members). For more information and to register for the workshop, please visit the ACTSS website.

Please note: ACTSS and Southern California Technical Processes Group will co-sponsor the same workshop in May, which will be held in Northridge, California (check http://library.csun.edu/sctpg/meta_appspring2007.html for more information).

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December 19, 2006

Exhibitions and Symposia on Dr. Sun Yat-sen and China's Revolution of 1911

The Chinese American Librarians Association's Southern California Chapter, the County of Los Angeles Public Library, the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library and the Asian Pacific Resource Center of the CoLAPL are co-sponsoring a series of Exhibitions and Symposia in commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) for his 140th Anniversary and for the 95th Anniversary of China's Revolution of 1911 (also known as Xin Hai Ge Ming). Dr. Sun was a pioneer and leader in the fight for China's democracy. His distinguished achievements and contributions are considered as of the greatest significance in inspiring patriotism in China, and have influenced China substantially. The Symposia and Grand Opening of the Exhibitions were held on November 17 and November 18, 2006 respectively at the two libraries. This is the first California-China international library cooperation in Southern California.

The Exhibitions display more than 400 rare photographs, manuscripts and historical documents on Dr. Sun and the Revolution from the Special Collections Department of the Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province and the Sun Yat-sen University Libraries of China. The Exhibitions and the Symposia, both in size and content, mark a "First" in the history of Southern California in similar activities. These rare photos and materials were donated to the County of Los Angeles Public Library and the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library on November 17, 2006.

A number of distinguished speakers were invited to present at the Symposia: 1) Dr. Huanwen Cheng, Professor and Chair of the Research Institute of Library and Information Science and Director of the Sun Yat-sen University Libraries, spoke on "Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Sun Yat-sen University"; 2) Dr. Philip West, Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs, University of Montana and Ph D in Modern Chinese History from Harvard University, spoke on "Teaching Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the American College Classroom - Dr. Sun's Legacy in China"; 3) Mr. Jun-ming Ni, Head of Special Collections of Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library spoke on "An Introduction to the Special Holdings of the Guangdong Provincial Zhongshan Library, Rare and Valuable Photos and Resources of the China Revolution of 1911"; and 4) Mr. Sean Liang, Journalist and Researcher, spoke on "California Bonds: Descendants of Dr. Sun yat-sen".

More than 200 participants extended their warm congratulations for the excellent organization and success of the events. They were impressed by the quality of the presentations at the symposia and the exceptional photos and rare materials on display. Among the letters we received was a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Hilda L. Solis, Member of the Congress, in recognition of our cultural contribution to the community. ALA President Leslie Berger and immediate Past President Michael Gorman, California State Librarian Susan Hildreth, mayors of Los Angeles County, Montebello, Monterey Park, and presidents of the Friends of Libraries, and many more sent in their warmest congratulations in recognition of our contributions to the California-China Collaborative "Exhibitions and Symposia in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 140th Anniversary" that have provided an educational opportunity to the communities.

The Exhibitions will continue to be held from November 17 to December 20, 2006 at the Montebello Library and the Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library in Southern California. For more information, please contact: Ms. Sally C. Tseng, Executive Director of the Chinese American Librarians Association, phone number: 949-552-5615, E-mail:sctseng888@yahoo.com.

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September 24, 2006

The 12th Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

October 13-15, 2006
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
450 Powell Street
San Francisco, California

Featuring

$25 discount for members of the California Library Association

Keynote address by Frederick Crews, author of the classic, best-selling satire The Pooh Perplex, The Critics Bear It Away, and many other works of criticism and scholarship

Panels on "The Decline of Literature Teaching in K-12 Education," "Graeco-Roman Lyric," "Donne and/for Our Times," "Language and the Study of Literature," "Literature and the Environment," and "Authors, Editors, Publishers"

Readings by poet Heather McHugh, author of Eyeshot, and novelist Dow Mossman, author of The Stones of Summer

A showing of the film Stone Reader, with post-viewing colloquium by filmmaker Mark Moskowitz and author Dow Mossman

A late-night open mike for readers of favorite poems, passages, and original works; and also for listeners

Registration fee: $150 / $125 for members of the California Library Association

Questions? alsc@bu.edu / 617-358-1990

Hotel reservations: 1-800-227-5480 (ask for ALSC group for discounted rate)

Rooms: $159 / night for single or double occupancy

Our raison d'etre is literature, of all kinds and in all languages. Our members love it, write it, study it, profess it, or more than one of these. Whether professional, amateur, or afficionado, please join us if you share our ruling passion.

Conference Schedule:

Friday, October 13
Registration: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Book Display: 11 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: The Decline of Literature Teaching in K-12 Education, and Why the ALSC Must Help
Chair: Mark Bauerlein (Emory University)
Kimberly Rose Moekle (Stanford University): "Literature for the Elite, Text for the Rest"
Dana Oswald (University of Wisconsin, Parkside): "Liberal Arts for Teachers: Constructing a Program that Works."David J. Rothman (Crested Butte Academy): "The Crisis of Literacy and the Courage to Teach"
Sandra Stotsky (Massachusetts Department of Education): "The K-12 Literature Curriculum and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement: Cause, Consequence, or Correlation"

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Readings
Heather McHugh reads from her recent work.
Dow Mossman reads from his novel The Stones of Summer.

5:30-6:15 p.m.
Reception, with address by ALSC President Tom Clayton (University of Minnesota)

7:45-10:30 p.m.
A showing of the film Stone Reader, with post-viewing colloquium by filmmaker Mark Moskowitz and author Dow Mossman

10:45-Midnight
Adeste lectores to the ALSC Open Mike, an informal gathering for readers of favorite poems, passages, and original works; and also for listeners (host William Mullen, Bard College).

Saturday, October 14

Book Display: 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

8:30-10:15 a.m.
CONCURRENT SEMINARS

Seminar One: The Pleasures of the Imagination in Science Fiction:
Chair: Paul Alkon (University of Southern California)
Natasha Alvandi Hunt (University of Southern California): "Charting a Way Home: The Pleasures of Imagination in Star Trek: Voyager"
Lee E.S. Bessette (University of Alberta): "Long Ago, in a Galaxy Far Away (Continued): Considering the Star Wars Novels"
Matt DeForrest (Johnson C. Smith University): "Balance of the Fantastic and the Plausible in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World"
John Garrison (San Francisco, California): "The Joy of Re-imagining the Self in Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial"
Christine Gordon (University of Minnesota): "World Building and Thought Experiments in LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness"
Larry D. Harwood (Viterbo University): "A Canticle For Leibowitz: The Writhing of the Enemy"
Richard Law (Alvernia College): "The Emotional Science Fiction of Joanna Russ"
John Miller (National University) "The Pleasure of Disorientation in the Science Fiction Short Story"
Sarah Pemelton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): " 'That Don't Include You 'less I Conjure It Does': Imaginative Pleasure in Joss Whedon's Serenity"
Miriam Rainbird (University of Notre Dame): "Personal and Communal Pleasure in William Morris’ News From Nowhere"
Janelle A. Schwartz (Hamilton College): "Psychematic Imaginings: The Production of Pleasure in Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress"
Juliette Wade (Newark, California): "Making the Strange Familiar: Discourse Structures that Create a Sense of Alien Culture in The Left Hand of Darkness"
Deanna Wells (University of North Texas): "Psychology of SF in The Left Hand of Darkness"
Michael Young (La Roche College): "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Comfort of Metaphoric Technology"

Seminar Two: The Personal Voice in Literary Criticism
Chair: James W. Earl (University of Oregon)
Gary Adelman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): " 'Strangury' - the Writing of Essays After Beckett"
Sarah Allen (University of South Carolina, Columbia): "Ethics of Encounter: William Gass Voicing Emerson"
Walter Collins (University of South Carolina, Lancaster): "Un/Warranted Literary Projection and Un/Warranted Response: Dialogues in and through Post/Colonial Criticism"
Farnoosh Fathi (University of Houston): "Estimations of Critical Distance: the Critical Voice in Creative Scholarship"
Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University): "Grappling with the Myth of Oneself: Three Exemplars of the Personal Voice in Literary Criticism and a Suggestive Model"
Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University): "Name That Voice"
Mark John Isola (Tufts University): "Critical Positions: Locating Self in Literary Criticism"
Pam Fox Kuhlken (Arizona Western College): "Jacques Derrida as Belles-Critique"
Dejan Kuzmanovic (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): "Queer Autotheory"
Nina Leacock (University of West Georgia): "Personal Voice and the Challenge to the Reader: the Example of Greg Sarris"
Jennifer Lewin (University of Kentucky): "William Empson's Voice of Reason"
Amy Eller Lewis (University of Rhode Island): "Affinity: A Transgressively Autobiographical and Cabalistic Study of Emily Dickinson"\
Zachary Snider (London Metropolitan University): "Authorial Voice in the Creative Writing PhD Dissertation"

Seminar Three: Landscape and the Lyric
Chair: Paul Sheats (University of California, Los Angeles)
John Baxter (Dalhousie University): "Landscape Dialogues in Two Poems by Helen Pinkerton"
Bonnie Costello (Boston University): "Landscape as Still Life"
Peter Filkins (Simon's Rock College of Bard): "Hope Sown from Despair: Ingeborg Bachmann's Landscapes"
Brett Foster (Wheaton College): "Walking in Rome: Lyrical Disillusion and Revisitation"
John Hart (Lawrence Hart Institute): "Journey To Iceland"
Tony Hilfer (University of Texas, Austin): " 'The Nothing That Is' : The Modernist American Representation Of Nature"
Susannah Hollister (Yale University): "John Ashbery's Landscapes of Language"
Eric Idsvoog (Harvard University): "Landscape and Mood in 'The Lotos-Eaters'"
William Junker (University of Chicago): "Andrew Marvell on the Objective as Opposed to Ideal Landscape, or a Reading of 'The Mower against Gardens'"
Karmen Lenz (Macon State College): "Landscape Imagery and Identity in the Meters of King Alfred's Book of Consolation"
John Sitter (University of Notre Dame): "The 'Geocentric' Poetics of Pattiann Rogers"
John Steen (Emory University): "Modernist Landscape with Love and Death"
Milton Welch (University of Virginia): "Lynching, Landscapes, and Grimke's Trees"
Rachel Wetzsteon (William Paterson University) "Granite Wastes and Rounded Slopes: Auden's Moralized Landscapes"
Jianqing Zheng (Mississippi Valley State University): "Being with Things"

10:30-11:45 a.m.
Panel Two: Graeco-Roman Lyric and Its Legacy
Chair: John F. Miller (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Daniel Hooley (University of Missouri)
Vasiliki Dimoula (King's College, London): "Wordsworth and Greek Lyric Poetry: Language, Communality and the Idea of Lyric"
Selene le Roux (Stellenbosch, South Africa): "Lyric Representations of Political Change: Marvell's Cromwellian Poems"
Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota): "When Did Catullus Become a Lyric Poet"
John Talbot (Brigham Young University): "I Threw Away My Little Shield: Greek and Roman Lyric and Robert Lowell's Vietnam"

1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: Donne and/for Our Times
Chair: Achsah Guibbory (Barnard College)
Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State University): "John Donne vs. The Runaway Bunny"
Judith Scherer Herz (Concordia University): "Resonances and Reversals"
Jonathan F.S. Post (University of California, Los Angeles): "Donne, Discontinuity, and the Proto-Post Modern"
Paul Stanwood (University of British Columbia): "Donne and the Line of Wit"
Susan K. Stewart (SUNY Plattsburgh): "Oaths of Allegiance: Early Modern Objections to Postmodern Queer Martyrologies"

3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Language and the Study of Literature
Chair: Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley)
Cheryl Goldstein (California State University, Long Beach): "Speaking in Tongues: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Literary in the Language of the Hebrew Sonnet"
Walter Jost (University of Virginia): "Doing Ordinary Language Criticism"
Jay Ladin (Stern College, Yeshiva University): "History Leads Us Back: Modernist Poetry and the Case for Close Reading"

5:45-7:00 p.m.
ALSC General Members' Meeting

8:00 p.m.
Dinner, followed by the keynote address of Frederick Crews

Sunday, October 15

Book Display: 8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Literature and Environment
Chair: Scott Slovic (University of Nevada, Reno)
Jean Arnold (California State University): "The Present Moment in Literature about Children in Nature and Environmental Quality of Life Movements"
Chia-ju Chang (Trinity University): "Whose Story of Survival?: A Comparative Study on the Narratives of Endangered Animals and their Human Guardians"
Rachel Golland (St. Thomas Aquinas College): "Ecofeminism: Notions of Gender, Literature, and the Environment in Mary Austin's Land of Little Rain and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild"
Jennifer Ladino (Creighton University): "The Place of Environmental Literature: A Case for Green Cultural Studies"
Tina Richardson (American University of Sharjah): "In the Garden: Literary Locations of Social Transformation"
Christian Hummelsund Voie (University of Bergen, Norway): "Dangerous and Indifferent Ground: Correspondence with Nature in Annie Proulx's Fiction"

10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Chair: Sarah Spence (University of Georgia; editor, Literary Imagination)
Jay Halio (University of Delaware): "How to Get Your Book Accepted and Published"
Anne Savarese (Princeton University Press): "Literary Encyclopedias in the Internet Age"
Don Share (Harvard University): "Who Writes? Who Reads?"
Fred Speers (Longman Publishers): "The Future of the English Textbook"
Willard Spiegelman (Southern Methodist University): "The View from The Editor's Desk, After Twenty Years"

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August 17, 2006

Harvard Seminar on Library Design in Sacramento in November

The Harvard Graduate School of Design will offer its popular seminar on the Planning and Design of Public Libraries in conjunction with the California Library Association's annual conference in November 2006. The seminar is part of Harvard's Executive Education Program. It is a nationally recognized education opportunity in the planning and design of public libraries and carries continuing education credit. This will be the first time the program is offered at a location other than at Harvard.

This four-day program will be presented November 6-9 at the Sacramento Public Library. It is intended for library planning staff, architects, engineers, and others who deal with planning and managing library construction projects. The program costs $1195 per person. Participating in this program in Sacramento will be a cost saving opportunity for many libraries since the cost of travel and hotel accommodations in Boston is much higher.

The seminar will examine the essentials of library planning and design and emerging trends affecting the role of the public library in the future. What are the driving forces of change? How are patron expectations evolving? Participants explore library programming and design issues and the rapidly evolving demandsfor library services and technology. The program includes lectures, interactive team-based planning and design exercises, virtual tours, and actual site visits to several innovative local libraries including Sacramento Central Library and the Carmichael Branch Library.

Harvard has set September 29 as a cutoff for registration in this seminar program in order to plan for the presentation. For more information or to register for this program, go to the following website: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/exec_ed/seminars/public_libraries/.

Posted by claadmin at 10:25 AM

June 22, 2006

Libraries Remember

On September 11, 2006, the Bensenville Community Public Library (IL) will offer to anyone with an internet connection, but particularly schools and libraries, a totally free program, Libraries Remember. This year, we will focus on the Holocaust, and we will present Marion Lazan, the author of Four Perfect Pebbles: a Holocaust Story.

At 2:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Mrs. Lazan will speak to the children of the world, and to anyone with an internet connection. For about 30 minutes, she will tell her story, and then she will take questions from those listening. More information about Mrs. Lazan
and the program can be found at: www.librariesremember.net.

To participate, you do need to register, and instructions are given at the website above. To join in the program, you will simply go to the designated web page, enter your name, and download a small applet that will take about 20 seconds to load. You will then end up in the online auditorium. Turn on your speakers, and you will hear the program and see the visuals that will accompany it. If you have a microphone attached to your computer, you will be able to speak with Mrs. Lazan and with everyone else participating.

Many libraries and schools will be projecting the program to larger groups and classes. You are welcome to make any arrangements you like to insure the greatest possible participation.

If you have questions, please send them to: billerbes@yahoo.com.

You may sign up by sending to Bill the name of your town, the name of your institution, and the number of computers you would like to login to the program. All of the login information will be sent out to registrants in August, and there will be several days designated prior to the program when everyone can log in, look around, and make sure everything is working properly.

Posted by claadmin at 9:25 AM

June 9, 2006

UCLA PRESENTS: Fall Friday Forum

Join us for a diverse and exciting continuing education experience!

WHEN: September 8, 2006 9:30 AM-1:30 PM

WHAT: "Female Trouble in the Rare Book Stacks: researching shifting views of gender through the rare book collections at UCLA"

This workshop will examine a variety of printed (and some manuscript) sources depicting views of women--and their societal roles--in western culture. Participants will have access to the books themselves, and learn about electronic resources useful for the study of women's history from a rare books point of view. And, while the question of what constitutes "rare" is eternally debatable (and debated), participants will be able to view a sampling of books--from incunables to present-day artists' books and zines--that elucidate, obfuscate, and always fascinate in regards to depictions of gender, femininity, and sexuality.

WHO:

Cristina Favretto is the Rare Books Librarian in the Department of Special Collections at the Charles E. Young Library at UCLA. Previous positions include: Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University and Director of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, where she built a large collection of materials documenting women's daily lives, including cookbooks, diaries, household manuals, and etiquette books. She has worked in a variety of library and archives settings, including the Boston Public Library, Harvard University, and the Andy Warhol Museum. She received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from the State University of New York at Albany, and her MLS and Certificate of Advanced Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Favretto was born in the United States but spent her middle school and lyceum years in Trieste, Italy.

WHERE:

Special Collections Department, Young Research Library. Directions and parking information will be sent with registration confirmation.

WHEN: September 15, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

WHAT: "Digital Preservation 101: Don't Kiss Your Assets Goodbye"

Do you know where your pixels are? From scanning projects to the creation of born-digital, complex/compound objects, librarians everywhere are being faced with the long-term care and feeding of digital objects. Despite recent advances in research and the beginnings of best practices, this is still a mystifying and sometimes treacherous realm for many professionals.

This session will take you through the myths about digitization (that it is a preservation medium), why digital media are so fragile (what is a byte, and why we care), why Silicon Valley in general and vendors in particular aren't helping (if it's backed up doesn't mean it's preserved), what good metadata includes (and how do we get some) and where the research is taking us, including preservation metadata and third-party repositories.

In this session you will learn:

Technology basics toward an understanding of the nature of digital objects
The key elements of writing a digital preservation policy: choose what to lose
What preservationists mean when they talk about "OAIS"
How to speak the language of preservation when working with vendors and IT
How to stay current in a rapidly evolving field

WHO:

Victoria McCargar, M.A., MLIS, former senior editor for technology at the Los Angeles Times, has 16 years of sometimes heartbreaking experience in managing digital assets and technology strategies. She served on the Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) committee and is currently working on developing criteria for news media repositories for the Center for Research Libraries. She is recipient of the 2006 David Rhydwen Award for her scholarly research in news archives by the News Division of the Special Libraries Assn. She has an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and an MLIS from UCLA.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: September 29, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

WHAT: The Newest Library Customers: Babies, Toddlers and their Caregivers

Early childhood specialists and library practitioners share their knowledge and experiences. Participants will acquire the tools they need to alter their traditional services to preschool children to incorporate recent research and new service models for this underserved population.

WHO:

Penny Markey, Coordinator of Youth Services, County of Los Angeles Public Library

Tina Carwile, Emergent Literacy Programs Coordinator, County of Los Angeles Public Library

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: October 6, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

WHAT: From Anecdote to Evidence: Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Challenge for Librarians

According to a recent study, more than 36% of people in the United States are using some form of complementary and alternative medicine, otherwise known as CAM. Librarians are often asked questions relating to health and medical information. These questions can be tricky enough, but when CAM is thrown into the equation it can be even more challenging.

This workshop is intended for public, academic and medical librarians who provide health information to the public and healthcare professionals and who need the tools to provide quality, evidence-based materials for their patrons.

After attending this workshop, librarians will understand more about:

History of natural medicine and therapies and CAM today
The librarian's role and the patient, the practitioner, the doctor
The art and finesse of handling the (CAM) reference question
Finding the evidence to support the use of alternate therapies
Online resources for the librarian
Educating the patron about evaluating health information materials
Collection development considerations

WHO:

Kelli Ham, MLIS is the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, located at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Kelli plans and coordinates consumer health programs and training for public libraries and community-based organizations, with a focus on the health information needs of the diverse population groups in the region.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: October 13, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

WHAT: Banzai Branch Management!

A public library branch is a unique institution, and too often new branch managers are handed the keys and get no other specific training. This workshop will prepare new and potential library branch mangers for the variety of tasks a branch manager faces including disgruntled and disruptive people, handling emergencies, supervising a variety of staff, selecting a neighborhood focused collection, keeping the branch viable in the community, and being both the public face of the library and the "person in charge." Participants will leave with a notebook of real examples and tested templates ready to fill with their specific library information, public relations and programming ideas, reports back to a library director or board of trustees, emergency information, collection management tools, and more.

WHO:

Hillary Theyer is the Principal Librarian in charge of public services for the Torrance Public Library. A graduate of UCLA, she received her MLS in 1994 and a Masters in Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach in 2005. She has been a children's librarian, branch supervisor, and youth services supervisor and has worked for the Beverly Hills Public Library, Sacramento Public Library, and the Palos Verdes Library District. She has developed public programs in conjunction with the statewide initiatives California Reads the Grapes of Wrath and California Stories as well as her own series on women in California history.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: October 20, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

Rescheduled! "BETWEEN THE STORIES" - PART TWO

WHAT: Fingerplays, Stretches, Songs, Puppets, Flannelboards, and Other Activities to Enhance a Storytelling Experience for Children ages 2 to 10.

This workshop is a continuation of the "Between the Books" Friday Forum offered in January, 2006. In this workshop, Pam will present all new material and through demonstration and participation, attendees will learn how to plan a complete storytime program and will take home at least 25 fingerplays, stretches, songs, and flannelboard ideas to use in library programming.

WHO: Pamela Greene has been a children's librarian for over 23 years and in her career has presented over 1,000 storytime programs for children of all ages. Retired from the Beverly Hills Public Library, Pamela now does consulting and works part-time at the Inglewood Public Library.

**Special note: there is a $5.00 participant's materials charge to be paid to Pam at the time of the workshop.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: Oct. 27, 9:30 to 1:30

WHAT: Introduction to Legal Materials and Resources

This workshop is designed to introduce basic legal materials to public librarians and other librarians who do not specialize in the law. The course will discuss primary legal sources, including cases, statutes, and regulations, with the emphasis on California law, and will also highlight self-help materials and legal forms. We will focus on the use of web-based and other readily available resources. The goal of the workshop is to enable the general librarian to assist a patron who has a basic legal question.

WHO:

Kevin Gerson has been a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library for eight years. Prior to entering the law librarian profession, he worked as a senior analyst for a legal publisher. He has a law degree from Stanford and a masters degree from UC Berkeley.

Jill Fukunaga, a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library, practiced employment law for 10 years prior to becoming a law librarian. She has a law degree from the University of Hawaii and a library degree from the University of South Florida.

June Kim has been a reference librarian at the UCLA Law Library for
three years. She earned her law and library degrees from UCLA.

Jennifer Lentz is the Head of Collection Development and reference
librarian at the UCLA Law Library, where she has worked for the past
seven years. Her law degree is from the University of Oregon and her
library degree is from the University of Michigan.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: November 3-4, 2006 Friday and Saturday 9:30AM-4:30 PM

WHAT: Flat paper care and repair, co-sponsored with LAPNET

This two-day workshop will introduce participants to basic paper care and repair.

Friday, day one: topics will include: paper as a material, the environment, housing and storage, and special concerns for oversized materials.

Saturday, day two: will focus on hands-on instruction in a variety of basic repair techniques including: surface cleaning, flattening, and paper repair. Selection issues such as when not to repair, what techniques may be damaging and when to consult a conservator will also be addressed.

LIMITED ENROLLMENT! While the Friday workshop has no enrollment limitation, the Saturday, hands-on workshop is limited to the first 15 registrants. The cost for both workshops, Friday and Saturday is $150.00; for Friday only, the fee is $85.00.

WHO:

Kristen St. John is the Collections Conservator for the UCLA Library. She has worked for a variety of institutions from private conservation labs to university special collections to the Library of Congress. Along with conservation work, she has done preservation assessments for library collections in small museum and historical societies.

Richenda Brim is the Head of Collection Maintenance in the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. She received her MLIS from UCLA in 2002.

**Special notes:

1. A bag lunch for each day is included with the cost of the workshop. Please indicate vegetarian or non-vegetarian on your registration form.

2. There is a materials fee of $15.00 for the Saturday hands-on instruction class to be paid directly to the instructors on the workshop day.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: November 17 9:30AM-12:30PM

WHAT: Introduction to Dreamweaver

Join us for a hands-on session that will help you learn the basics of this web-authoring application. We will review the features of Dreamweaver and guide you through creating web pages (which you may take home) with minimal stress. It is assumed that you have no prior knowledge of Dreamweaver.

WHO:

David Cappoli is the Digital Resources Librarian for the UCLA Department of Information Studies.

** Please note: registration is limited to 10

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

WHEN: December 1, 2006 9:30AM-4:30PM Co-sponsored with the California Center for the Book

WHAT: "These Fragments": A Critical Discussion of Books and Archival Evidences

George Bornstein begins his recent study entitled Material Modernism with a deceptively complex question, "If the 'Mona Lisa' is in Paris at the Louvre," he wonders, "where is King Lear?" The question introduces a range intellectual problematics that focus on how culture is transmitted and how history is shaped. At the center of such discussion sits the most fundamental repositories of cultural memory: books and archives.

This seminar style forum will begin with a discussion of how the fragmentary and often accidental evidences archives contain shape our relationship with history. Our discussion will have at its center reflection on photographic and manuscript materials that will be introduced using PowerPoint. We will also consider how oral history either complicates or compliments extant archival materials and use as example excerpts from oral history interviews.

We will then turn our attention to print culture. We will consider carefully that the creative and intellectual intentions books embody are mediated through a variety of financial, technological, and historical pressures. Such understanding raises important consideration about the nature of authorial intention as well as the construct of textual fixity. Our discussion will include examination of rare print materials (some facsimile some genuine).

WHO:

Ben Alexander holds an M.A. in English and American Literature from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from The City University of New York. Concurrent with his graduate work Mr. Alexander spent many years working as a Manuscript Specialist (archivist) in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of The New York Public Library. He has published several articles on theoretical issues relating to archives and material culture more generally as well lectured on these same subjects in Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Edmonton, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, and Vienna. He currently teaches in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

WHERE: History and Special Collections Division, UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Directions and parking information will be sent with registration confirmation.

WHEN: DECEMBER 15, 2006 9:30AM-1:30PM

WHAT: ALL MARC, NO BITE

Let's say you've learned about monographic cataloging but not how
to actually do it. Take a tour of MARC coding of bibliographic
cataloging records and learn the what, when, and why of practical, non-Da Vinci coding. This workshop is intended for those who have had an introduction to descriptive cataloging but little or no hands on
experience with applying AACR2 and MARC.

WHO:

Russell Johnson, MA, MLS (UCLA '93) is a cataloger and archivist for
the History & Special Collections Division of UCLA's Louise Darling
Biomedical Library.

WHERE: GSEIS Building UCLA Campus

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June 7, 2006

Map Cataloging Workshops in California!

Submitted by Sarah Gardner, Cataloging Interest Group Chair, Access, Collections and Technical Services Section

This introductory workshop will help get you started in cataloging maps and can serve as a starting point for cataloging other cartographic materials. Take your basic knowledge of cataloging and learn where maps and other cartographic materials differ.

The skills to be taught include title selection, how to correctly measure a map, scale calculation and how to record other mathematical data correctly, and the notes specifically required for cartographic materials.

Emphasis will be on sheet maps, with some discussion of atlases.

Target audience: Technical services staff with some cataloging experience and knowledge of AACR2, MARC and OCLC cataloging interfaces.

Mr. Paige G. Andrew is Maps Cataloging Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. He is an active participant in the NACO and SACO programs, helping to create new name and subject headings for the Library of Congress' Name Authority File.

Paige's scholarly pursuits include publishing in the area of his specialty, cataloging sheet maps, including several articles and a "how-to" book titled Cataloging Sheet Maps, The Basics (published 2003 by The Haworth Press). He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: advances in geospatial information, collections & archives.

The workshops are scheduled as follows:

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
University of California, Los Angeles
Charles E. Young Research Library, Library Conference Center

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
University of California, Davis
Shields Library, Library Instruction Lab

To enroll or for more information, please visit the following sites:
For the Northern workshop at UC Davis: http://www.cla-net.org/aboutcla/actss.php/.
For the Southern workshop at UCLA: http://library.csun.edu/sctpg/mapcatJuly2006.html.

The class size is limited to 25 participants. Please register early to secure your spot!

Posted by claadmin at 12:44 PM

May 26, 2006

Focus on Collections Care Workshop Series - June 7-9, 2006

The three-day Focus on Collections Care workshop series will be held in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. This series is presented by San Diego-based Balboa Art Conservation Center (BACC) and is designed to provide an intensive training experience with a programmatic approach. The series curriculum focuses on care of collections, policies and procedures and planning and management. Participants may select one workshop per day from the following:

Day 1:

Care of Collections-Photographic Materials
Surveying & Assessing Collection Needs
Handling & Housekeeping for Collections

Day 2:

Care of Collections - Paintings & Painted Surfaces
Collection Care Planning & Fundraising for Implementation
Making Material Choices for Storage & Exhibit Materials

Day 3:

Care of Collections - Paper-Based Materials
Emergency Preparedness & Response

Persons involved in collections care management, institutional development and policy making, exhibition development and installation, and students in degree-related programs are encouraged to attend. Each workshop will take place from 9 AM to 4 PM. Participants from qualifying institutions may apply for stipend assistance.

Focus on Collections Care is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Additional support was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Please contact the Balboa Art Conservation Center at 619-236-9702, or email us at wrfso@bacc.org, or visit bacc.org for complete workshop descriptions and registration and stipend information. Registration deadline is May 31, 2006.

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April 6, 2006

UCLA Friday Forum Continuing Education Workshops

UCLA Presents

Spring, 2006 Friday Forums Continuing Education Opportunities

Join us for one or all of these dynamic, stimulating and useful workshops!

APRIL 21 2006 9:00 AM - 1:00PM

No Comprende? Spanish Health Information Resources for English
Speaking Librarians

Do you have a growing Latino population in your community? Do you need to find health information in Spanish fast but don't know where to look? Are the only words in your Spanish vocabulary burrito and gracias? If you answered yes to these questions, then this is the class for you. This hands-on workshop will cover resources for learning basic, library, medical, and Internet Spanish vocabulary. You will also learn to evaluate and identify health websites in Spanish to which you can direct your patrons.

Participants will be able to:

Identify print and online resources for basic, library, medical, and web Spanish vocabulary.

Pronounce the letters in the Spanish alphabet and type special
Spanish characters like accent marks.

Identify the criteria for evaluating health websites.

Evaluate online health information resources that are in Spanish. Identify reliable online Spanish health information resources.

Kelli Ham, MLIS is the Consumer Health Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, located at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.

*Special note: MLA offers different levels in Consumer Health Information Specialization, and this class is on the list of approved classes for fulfilling the requirements. Other courses to be offered in the future that will also apply towards the CH specialization. For more info, please see the following link: http://www.mlanet.org/education/chc/.

APRIL 28 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Just Dewey It!

Learn how to classify (assign call numbers) books using the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Skills to be covered include understanding the structure of the DDC, reading the manual and schedules, selecting appropriate classification numbers, and building numbers using the tables.

This workshop is intended for those with no formal training in using the DDC, but who have had an introduction to descriptive cataloging. Some knowledge of subject cataloging will be helpful. Library of Congress classification and MARC will not be included.

Suzanne Stauffer, MLS, Ph.D. is an experienced print and non-print cataloger and a lecturer at the UCLA Department of Information
Studies and San Jose State University.

MAY 5 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Librarians and Legislators: Making Those Vital Connections

Gone are the days when legislators automatically supported funding for libraries just because they were "good for" their communities. In our rapidly changing world, librarians need to make our case with legislators, many of whom believe that the Internet will quickly replace libraries and make books obsolete.

So how can librarians keep on top of current legislation; who do we need to keep in touch with; how do we establish and nurture relationships with our elected officials? The Chair of the California Library Association's Legislative Committee shares basic information on the world of library lobbying.

Terri Maguire is currently the deputy director of the County of Los Angeles Public Library and has been active in California public libraries for over 20 years. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ms. Maguire is also the 2006 chair of the Legislative Committee of the California Library Association.

MAY 12 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

BY POPULAR DEMAND! "BETWEEN THE STORIES" - PART TWO

Fingerplays, Stretches, Songs, Puppets, Flannelboards, and Other Activities to Enhance a Storytelling Experience for Children ages 2 to 10.

This workshop is a continuation of the "Between the Books" Friday Forum offered in January, 2006. In this workshop, Pam will present ll new material and through demonstration and participation, attendees will learn how to plan a complete storytime program and will take home at least 25 fingerplays, stretches, songs, and flannelboard ideas to use in library programming.

Pamela Greene has been a children's librarian for over 23 years and in her career has presented over 1,000 storytime programs for children of all ages. Retired from the Beverly Hills Public Library, Pamela now does consulting and works part-time at the Inglewood Public Library.

*Please note: there is a $5.00 participant's materials charge to be paid to Pam at the time of the workshop.

MAY 19 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Sugar skulls, fossils, books, bird's nests and more
Part II: Exhibits - Ideas to Installation

The second part of the exhibits workshop explores some strategies for intellectual and creative development of an exhibit. We will outline the preparation stages undertaken prior to installation. Then we will discuss installation processes with an emphasis on unique and non-traditional exhibit and display spaces. The discussions will be supplemented with the hands-on use of a variety of representative objects including photographs, prints, books, natural history collections and other three-dimensional objects.

Lisa Forman is the chief Conservator and owner of Hudson Conservation Studio, LLC. She has been in private practice serving museums, galleries, libraries and collectors in the Los Angeles area since 1991. She has held positions and consulted in the paper conservation labs of the Huntington Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Getty Research Institute. Hudson Conservation Studio has extensive experience with paper, document and photographic conservation, preservation surveys and assessments, strategic planning, exhibition preparation; grant application consultation and educational workshops.

MAY 26 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Authors in Your Library

The California Center for the Book and the California Programs Office of Poets & Writers are jointly sponsoring this introduction to the reading/writing programs offered by both agencies. The two agencies collaborate to present the California Library Writing Workshop Initiative. Learn more about this Initiative as well as other programs to assist you in developing library programs. Find out how you can get authors to come to your library, what to expect from the authors and the responsibilities of the local library.

*Please note: There is no fee to enroll in this session, but you must complete and submit the registration form.

Cheryl Klein has worked at Poets & Writers since 2002, and has served as California Programs Manager since 2005. She oversees the Readings/ Workshops program, which provides matching grants to writers who present their work at all types of community venues.

June 2 2006 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Loved to Death: the Care and Handling of Rare Books

In this workshop, participants will learn about the physical care and handling of rare books. Books may be considered unique or special due to their age, rarity, monetary value, subject matter, association with a previous owner or group, etc. Whatever the size or range of your collection, basic preservation information can help prolong the useful life of all rare materials. Conservation and repair issues will be discussed, but this is not a hands-on class in book repair.

Topics will include:

Labeling and marking: both for security and identification

Environmental conditions and collections maintenance

Housing and boxing recommendations

Handling and storing issues for very small and very large books

Working with conservators and bookbinders

For additional information contact:

Cherry Williams
Associate Director for Special Projects
UCLA Department of Information Studies
310-206-2962
cndw@library.ucla.edu

Or visit our Web site at: http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/conted/index.htm.

Posted by claadmin at 1:17 PM

March 29, 2006

Online Courses Offered

The Library and Information Technology Program at the University College of the Fraser Valley is pleased to offer three online courses during the Summer semester, May 8 to August 5th. For more information about these courses please visit their website: http://www.ucfv.ca/libtech.

LIBT 145 - Internet Information Retrieval
This course will be of interest to students from all disciplines. Students will become effective searchers of the internet, developing and refining search strategies to increase the relevance of the material gathered. Students learn how to evaluate information they find, using standard criteria, and how to document electronic information sources using standard style guides. Issues such as the effect of the internet on society, scholarship, and libraries, are discussed and debated. Resources specific to different subject areas such as business, government, health, arts, humanities, and social sciences will be explored.

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LIBT 240 - Media in Libraries
This course covers the operation and simple maintenance of audiovisual equipment, and methods of locating, evaluating, organizing and handling audiovisual materials such as audio and video cassettes, microforms, graphic materials, computer software, pamphlets, etc.

NOTE: there is an extensive cataloguing component to this course - to discuss your experience and skills relevant to this course please contact our Instructional Assistant, Noreen Dragani, at 604-854-4582 or noreen.dragani@ucfv.ca

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LIBT 250 - Records Management
This course provides an introduction to the systematic control of information in an organization. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation will provide a context for establishing a records management program in an organization. Students will learn to analyse research and conduct inventories and audits of office systems. Also included are topics such as active/inactive records, the values and life cycles of records, schedules for retention, storage, retrieval and disposal of records, commonly used classification and filing systems.

Space is limited. For registration information please contact our Instructional Assistant, Noreen Dragani, at 604-854-4582 or noreen.dragani@ucfv.ca.

Posted by claadmin at 9:52 AM

March 22, 2006

Registration is Still Open for Cataloging Workshop!

There is still time to register for the upcoming Rules & Tools for Cataloging Internet Resources workshop on April 13 and 14 in San Jose. To register, complete the registration form and send it in with payment to CLA. Don't delay. Space is limited.

Registration Form (359k)
Workshop Details (50k)

Posted by claadmin at 11:16 AM

March 20, 2006

Let's Talk about Organizational Systems

Join the CLA Student Round Table for our second "Let's Talk about" event on Wednesday March 29 at Occidental College, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. This month's discussion will focus on ourselves and our organizations: Who are we? Why have we chosen to be where we are (in libraries)? How do we make the most of ourselves and our places?

We'll go beyond just talk this month, to the experiential. Be prepared to do some personal assessment and to actively engage with each other. Our facilitator for this event is John Vlietstra, a non-librarian, avid reader, former human resources manager, and a doctoral student in Organizational Systems, whose mission is "to be part of a team that brings about an organization that both thrives and allows the full expression of healthy, adult personalities."

Please RSVP by Wednesday March 22 to marsha@somanybks.com. Directions and parking instructions will be mailed to attendees on Monday March 27.

-Marsha Schnirring, SRT Chair

The purpose of the CLA Student Round Table is to provide formal and informal networking and professional development opportunities for current and recent library students, and to enhance the possibilities for mentoring relationships between CLA student members and experienced library professionals.

Posted by claadmin at 7:26 AM

March 2, 2006

Leading from Any Position: A Workshop for Leadership Development

This intensive two day, interactive, workshop, limited to no more than 50 attendees, is based on the principle that leadership, and positive contributions, can occur at all levels in an organization and that an environment can be created which encourages positive initiative. The workshop is sponsored by the Management Services and Public Library Sections and the Continuing Education Committee.

Posted by claadmin at 1:30 PM

February 15, 2006

Rules and Tools Workshop Announcement

Submitted by Xiaoli Li, Vice President/President Elect, Access, Collection and Technical Services Section

I am pleased to announce ACTSS is sponsoring a two-day workshop, "Rules and Tools on Cataloging Internet Resources." The first of five courses in the "Cataloging for the 21st Century" continuing education series, the workshop provides attendees with a solid foundation in the principles and practices of online resource cataloging using current descriptive cataloging standards (AACR2/MARC21) and practices (LCRI/CONSER/PCC).

At the end of the workshop, participants will:

Understand the concepts behind the 2002 AACR2 revisions and how they affect electronic resource cataloging

Know what tools to consult to support the online resource cataloging process

Be able to catalog online monographs, serials, and integrating resources

Be able to correctly update integrating resource records to reflect changes to the resource

Have a better understanding of how record sets and machine-generated cataloging can be used to support electronic resource record processing

The impact of automation and electronic content on the practice of collection development will be woven through the workshop.

This course is designed for practicing catalogers from all types of libraries who have a working knowledge of the MARC21 bibliographic format and AACR2. To enroll or for more information, please visit the ACTSS webpage.

The class size is limited to 25 participants. Please register early to secure your spot!

Posted by claadmin at 7:12 AM

February 9, 2006

CLA Student Round Table "Let's Talk about RDA'

Submitted by Marsha Schnirring, Chair, CLA Student Round Table

The California Library Association's Student Round Table invites you to join us for the first in our "Let's Talk about ..." series. These informal gatherings are designed to bring library students and practioners together to talk shop and network.

"Let's Talk about RDA" will be facilitated by Dorothy McGarry, Emerita, UCLA Library, and recipient of the 2005 Margaret Mann Citation. We'll be talking on Thursday, February 23, 2006 from 7-9 PM, in Room 121 of the GSE&IS building on the UCLA campus. For more information on the status of Resource Description and Access (RDA), visit http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html.

Please email your intention to attend to marsha@somanybks.com, no later than Thursday February 16, 2006. Confirmation and parking instructions will be emailed on Monday, 2/20.

We look forward to talking with you!

Posted by claadmin at 11:46 AM

August 9, 2005

News from the UCLA Department of Information Studies

UCLA Reception at SAA:
If you are planning to attend the 69th Annual Society of American Archivists meeting in New Orleans, please consider joining Anne Gilliland, Chair of the UCLA Information Studies Department and the UCLA SAA Student Chapter at the UCLA Mixer on Thursday, August 18, from 7:30-9:00 p.m., in the Pelican Room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside. To RSVP to this event, please contact Rachel Delgadillo (rpdelgad@ucla.edu).

Upcoming Fall 2005 UCLA Friday Forums:

Registration for the Fall 2005 UCLA Friday Forums will begin shortly. For additional information, please contact Rachel Delgadillo (rpdelgad@ucla.edu).

Writing Grants for Library Programs
Date: October 14, 2005
Time: 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Join the UCLA Information Studies Department, the California Center for the Book and the Nonprofit Resource Library of the Center for Nonprofit Management for a hands-on workshop designed to help librarians develop grant writing skills and introduce participants to the resources of the Nonprofit Resource Library. Participants will learn how to identity their grant needs, how to research potential funders and how to write grant proposals. Registration is limited to 15.

Cindy Mediavilla is Director, California Center for the Book and a lecturer at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. Marcia Schmitz is the Director of the Nonprofit Resource Library at the Center for Nonprofit Management.

Down the Rabbit Hole: What's Up with Children's Literature
Date: October 28
Time: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM

This workshop provides an overview of children's literature, including basic storytime favorities for the children's services novice and new titles for the veteran children's librarian. Learn tips on evaluating children's books and about children's trends and developments.

Maida Lin Wong is the Senior Librarian in charge of the Children's Department at the South Pasadena Public Library. She currently serves on the 2006 Newbery Award Committee.

Cataloging for the Non-Cataloger
Date: November 18
Time: 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Learn very basic descriptive cataloging and re-cataloging in this overview of descriptive cataloging principles and procedures. Skills to be covered include reading a bibliographic record, performing basic copy cataloging, and recognizing and correcting minor cataloging errors. This workshop is designed for the person with no formal training in cataloging. Subject cataloging and classification (call numbers) will not be included. Introductory subject cataloging will be taught in a winter Friday Forum and classification will be taught in a spring Friday Forum.

Suzanne Stauffer, MLS, Ph.D. is an experienced print and non-print cataloger and a lecturer at the UCLA Department of Information Studies and San Jose State University.

Developing a Better Website
Date: December 2
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (noon)

Bored with your website? Is your web content difficult to manage? If so, then join us for this session where you will learn ways of jazzing up your website without detracting from your content as well as methods of efficiently administering your site. From using cascading style sheets to planning content to keeping your site current, you will look at techniques that will make it easier to enhance the user experience.

David Cappoli is the Digital Resources Librarian for the UCLA Department of Information Studies and has taught courses and workshops at the UCLA Department of Information Studies.

Starting and Maintaining an Archive: A Basic Workshop
Date: December 9
Time: 9:30 AM-3:00 PM

This session reviews the essential elements of a successful archives program. We will explore the challenges of deciding when and how best to collect archival materials as well as techniques for establishing institutional and external support. The session introduces the archival "fundamentals" of arrangement, description and preservation, and the reasons for developing and maintaining detailed, relevant collecting and access policies.

Jessica Silver, MLIS is a Certified Archivist based in San Diego and Education Chair for the Society of California Archivists. She has experience managing archival collections in repositories including the San Diego Historical Society, the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Posted by claadmin at 8:02 AM

July 7, 2005

New Infopeople Events Calendar

Submitted by Sarah Houghton, IT Section President

Infopeople is always trying to find new and better ways to keep you informed of what's happening. And in that spirit, they now offer the Infopeople Events Calendar, a handy dandy one stop way to see what's happening in the Infopeople world and the world at large. The calendar offers month, week, or day views, and contains events pulled from the California Library Training Clearinghouse (another useful tool to make note of). You can sort by on-ground workshops, online training, webcasts, library events like CLA, US hoildays, or look at the whole shebang at one time. Enjoy! Oh and as an added cool feature, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for the calendars as well! Not sure what an RSS feed is? Check this entry in the Wikipedia.

Posted by claadmin at 10:49 AM

June 29, 2005

Possible ACTSS Workshops

Submitted by Armanda Barone, ACTSS President

For the Chicago ALA meeting, ALCTS Council of Regional Groups' Continuing Education Committee has invited Julie Reese from the ALCTS Office to talk to ALCTS CRG on how Affiliated Groups (such as ACTSS) can host an ALCTS Continuing Education Workshop in their region. At present, ACTSS is looking into the possibility of hosting such a workshop, ALCTS/Program on Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Basic Subject Cataloging Course (proposed preconference during the CLA Conference in November). ACTSS is also hoping to co-sponsor a workshop on Resource Description and Access (RDA, formerly AACR3) sometime in 2006.

Posted by claadmin at 7:55 AM

April 28, 2005

What's Hot in Technology Webcast

Sponsored by Infopeople and the California Library Association's Information Technology Section

May 17th, noon - 1:00 PST

Come and learn what's hot, what's not, and what's new for libraries in the world of technology! Join our webcast as our speakers explore the ins and outs of the newest, the best, and the most useful of new technologies-hardware, software, online services, gadgets and more! Parcipants will come away from the webcast with an understanding of what's new & hot, implementation strategies, and also have a list of resources to turn to for more inforamtion on each topic. Participants will also have a chance to ask questions of the presenters at the end of the webcast.

Speakers: Scott Bauer (Redwood City Public Library), Sarah Houghton (Marin County Free Library), and Steven Silveria (Watsonville Public Library)

This webcast is limited to 80 participants. Anyone can view the archived webcast after the event date, but the live webcast is open to California library staff only.

For more information and to participate in the webcast, go to: http://www.cla-net.org/events/webcast.php

Posted by claadmin at 2:37 PM

March 10, 2005

Outsourcing - Outrage or All the Rage?

Submitted by Annette Milliron

The 2005 annual meeting of the Northern California Technical Processes Group (NCTPG) will take place on Friday, April 15, 2005 at the San Francisco Public Main Library at 100 Larkin Street in San Francisco from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The program will include:

Ross McLachlan, Library Services Administrator, Phoenix Public Library
"Wholistic collection management plan"

Christa Easton, Head, Acquisitions, Stanford University
"Outsourcing in an academic environment"

Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Dean, University of Kentucky Libraries will act as respondent.

Registration form is available at www.nctpg.org. For more information, please contact Myra Binstock at 707-421-6514 or mbinstoc@snap.lib.ca.us.

This event is co-sponsored by NCTPG and CLA's Access, Collection and Technical Services Section.

Posted by claadmin at 9:02 AM

Teaching Blogging to Your Patrons

Submitted by Sarah Houghton, IT Section President

Fremont Main Library held it's first "How to Blog" Connect Class on February 23. This new class was presented by Susan Rosenblatt, Reference Librarian. Susan gave an overview of the who, what and how of weblogs. Other upcoming classes include, Beyond Google, Legal, and Business Resources Online. We are also initiating our first classes on library web resources to be conducted in Farsi, Hindi and Chinese. Interested? Call our Information Desk at (510) 745-1401 or log on to the Alameda County Library website at http://www.aclibrary.org and click on the Branch Calendar link.

Posted by claadmin at 8:21 AM

February 22, 2005

UCLA Offering Workshops on Youth Services

Submitted by Cindy Mediavilla

Library services to youth are as popular as ever at the UCLA Department of Information Studies, where more and more students are specializing in this area to meet the needs of future employers and their communities. In addition to departmental chair and children's services expert Virginia Walter, classes are being being taught this year by young adult services guru Michael Cart and Elaine Meyers, head of youth services at the Phoenix Public Library and co-chair of the PLA/ALSC Every Child to Read @ your library task force. Meyers is also leading an all-day Friday Forum, March 11, on how children's librarians can partner with parents to help their preschoolers become early readers. Then, on April 15, the department will sponsor a day-long workshop on library services to teens, featuring practitioners who will share their expertise on how to create and maintain teen advisory boards, YA spaces, homework centers, and teen computer labs. For more information about both workshops, please contact Cindy Mediavilla at 310/206-2962 or cmediavi@ucla.edu. Finally, this year's prestigious Frances Clarke Sayers Lecture will be delivered, March 6, by Jim Murphy, author of several children's historical works, including Newbery-honored The Great Fire. For more information about the Sayers Lecture, please contact the Office of Development & Alumni Affairs at 310/206-0375.

Posted by claadmin at 2:31 PM

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