The Intellectual Freedom Committee will be hosting a workshop at the Annual Conference (Thursday October 25th 2:15 p.m.) and we need your help. The workshop is entitled “Tales from the Field”. If you have had a recent challenge to your collection or policies and are willing to share please send a synopsis of the situation [...]
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The Awards & Recognition Committee is seeking TWO additional members to bring its roster up to the full number outlined in its charge. About the Awards & Recognition Committee: The Role of the VLA Awards and Recognition Committee The Awards and Recognition Committee is a Standing Committee. The purpose of the committee is to identify [...] What: The Virginia Chapter of ACRL (VLACRL) invites you to our annual Spring Program “Starting at the end: Rethink your instruction based on student bibliographies.” When: Monday, April 9th, 2012 Where: Sweet Briar College, Florence Easton Inn & Conference Center Registration: Register online $45 for VLACRL members (qualification: membership in ACRL or in VLA); $55 [...] Tuesday, March 20, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA This one-day hands-on workshop will explore XML with a specific focus on fundamentals of design, markup, and use. The workshop will explain why XML is important, particularly in the domain of describing, storing, and delivering information in a library setting. XML Workshop [...] Please welcome our new editors! Starting with the second issue of 2012 (deadline February 1), Beth DeFrancis Sun (editor, defrancb@georgetown.edu) and John Connolly (assistant editor, jpconnolly@crimson.ua.edu) will take the helm of Virginia Libraries. Beth DeFrancis Sun is librarian at the Maternal & Child Health Library, Georgetown University, while John Connolly is a software trainer for [...] 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: [...] Congratulations to Susan Lawlor of Thomas Nelson Community College, winner of the VLA Kindle Fire drawing! Susan was entered into the drawing to win her brand-new Kindle Fire by joining VLA after she attended the 2011 VLA Annual Conference during October in Portsmouth, VA. Although it may be too late for you to win a [...] 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 [...] Every year, VLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee sponsors a Banned Books Week Display contest. We hope to encourage libraries of every type to educate their users on the dangers of censorship in a free society. The prize is simply this recognition and the attendant bragging rights. This year first prize goes to the Bateman Library at [...] Did you attend VLA’s Annual Conference in Portsmouth? We want your feedback! Please complete an Overall Conference Evaluation by November 13, so we can continue to grow, evolve and improve our future conferences. If you were a conference Presenter or Volunteer, please use the Additional Comments section to provide input on your experience. Thank you [...] |
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