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If you are someone who wants to make a difference in your field by developing or expanding your leadership role in Virginia libraries, then we are looking for you! Click here to apply for the Virginia Library Leadership Academy by January 13, 2012 or paste this link into your browser: https://sites.google.com/site/vlaleadershipdevelopmentforum/valla-2012 [...] Abandon all Fear: assessing, evaluating and letting go of legacy services (forthcoming 2013) * * We invite proposals for case studies to be published in a forthcoming ALA Editions book Abandon all Fear: assessing, evaluating and letting go of legacy services, an edited collection of case studies examining how librarians in all types of organizations [...] Congratulations to Rebecca Kate Miller of Virginia Tech Libraries and Rocco Debonis of the University of Maryland University College, who have been selected for the 2012 Class of Emerging Leaders of the American Library Association! Click here for the full announcement and more information about the Emerging Leaders program. Past Emerging Leaders from Virginia 2007: [...] Our topic will be Career Communication Documents – including that all-important resume. Provided by the ALA JobLIST Placement Center Register: https://ala.ilinc.com/register/yzvtszr Your resume is still one of the best tools for your job search and career advancement strategy. However, resumes – how they look and what they need to communicate – have changed. And other communications [...] The 2012 Virginia Library Association Election of Officers has concluded. The results are: Vice President/President Elect: Lisa Lee Broughman (Randolph College) ALA Councilor: Jessica Scalph (Prince William County Public Library) Second Vice President: Mark Lenker (Longwood University) Treasurer: Maryke Barber (Hollins University) Congratulations to Lisa Lee, Jessica, Mark and Maryke! You can meet your new [...] The 20th Annual Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Conference, “Communication 2012 – Paraprofessionals have come a long way, 1992-2012″ will be held on May 20-22, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Koger Center in Richmond. Now is the time to submit YOUR Concurrent Session Proposal Form! (Deadline for submissions is October 3, 2011). If you have any [...] The award invites library users nationwide to recognize the accomplishments of librarians in public, school, college, community college and university libraries for their efforts to improve the lives of people in their community. Nominations are being accepted online at atyourlibrary.org/ilovemylibrarian through Sept. 12. Up to 10 librarians will be selected. Each will receive a $5,000 [...] The Intellectual Freedom Committee urges all libraries to mark Banned Books week this year by displays in their facilities. So many people do not understand that it is not only books that they do not like which are vulnerable to being banned. For example the Bible is one of the most banned books of all [...] The VLA Annual Conference will be held Oct. 27-28 at the Portsmouth Renaissance Hotel in Portsmouth, VA. Please join us for “Nature is a Language, Can You Read? Literacy and Sustainability in Virginia’s Libraries.” Click here for the 2011 Annual Conference Preliminary Program. This .pdf document includes Preconferences, Schedules, Session Descriptions, Maps, and information [...] With summer reading programs in full swing and the demand for beach/vacation reading, many communities are making the most of their libraries during this break from school. If you haven’t already, consider joining the other Virginia libraries who have used the SnapshotVA advocacy materials in their summer programs. Some libraries are displaying posters, others are [...] |
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