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Do you know someone who is an inspiring MAC member (Mid-Atlantic Chapter/Medical Library Association)? Recognizing our colleagues is one of the highest honors we can bestow on our peers. The time to nominate your colleagues is now.
It is easy to nominate your fellow MAC member using our online form.
If you know a MAC [...]
On Friday, June 10 at the VLA Council Meeting at the Twin Hickory Branch Library in Richmond, VLA President Matt Todd presented Kevin Smith, Director of Library Services in York County, VA, with a Presidential Citation, the text of which read:
In recognition of his service to the Virginia Library Association and the ALA Virginia Delegation [...]
University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education Department of Library & Information Studies LIS 500M: Differentiating Instruction with Technology, 3 credit hour graduate level course Instructor: Judy Donovan, EdD Offered completely online from July 5 – August 12, 2011
Course Description This course, open to all, will provide the participants with a philosophical, professional, and [...]
At the 19th Annual Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Conference held May 22-24 at the Holiday Inn Koger Center in Richmond, Deloris Jones Thomas of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary was Named Outstanding Paraprofessional of the Year. Congratulatioins, Deloris! Below is the text of her nomination.
Deloris sets the [...]
At the Annual Virginia Public Library Director’s Association meeting in April, the following awards were given:
Category: Outstanding Staff Development Population Size: 50,000-99,999 Winner: Appomattox Regional Library System Title of Nomination: Staff Wiki Description: Zero-cost staff wiki that is available & editable to all staff members, connecting 8 branches, that staff edit an [...]
Want to donate to the VLA Scholarship fund, but couldn’t make it to the 2011 VLA Paraprofessional Annual Conference today? Click here to donate any amount via Paypal (minimum donation $1)!
VLA is a 501(c)3 organization; your donation is tax-deductible.
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I am delighted to announce that Celina Williams has been awarded the Beta Phi Mu Scholarship by the University of North Texas College of Information. Ms. Williams is a student in the University of North Texas/James Madison University Virginia MLIS Program. She works at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries in Special Collections and Archives.
Beta Phi [...]
Following in the footsteps of the ALA annual conference, we should all begin to move into using the popular social technology tools of the here and now by making the technology work for us professionally and personally! So, VLAPF “twitterers”, let’s keep the dialogue going during AND after the conference by using the Twitter hashtag [...]
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It’s not too late! Deadline for registration is right around the corner! (See http://www.vla.org/demo/Paraprof/Pf-Events.html for details and forms.)
Have you heard? Highlights for the VLAPF conference will be:
Keynote Speaker Monday Morning Peter Pober – George Mason University’s Director of Forensic – the only forensics director in history to orchestrate a top-ten team national placement [...]
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