Libraries: Adding Value to Our Communities

Virginia Library Association Annual Conference 2012

October 24-26, 2012 Williamsburg Hotel and Convention Center Williamsburg, Virginia

Join your colleagues in the Virginia library community October 24-26th at the Williamsburg Hotel and Conference Center (formerly the Williamsburg Marriott) as they share the many ways libraries add value to our communities  — and dream up some new ways together.

Keynote Speakers for VLA 2012 Nancy Dowd – John Cotton Dana Award-winning Librarian and author of Bite-Sized Marketing: Realistic Solutions for Overworked Librarians (ALA Editions). Hillary Jordan – Author of When She Woke (Algonquin) and the Alex award-winning Mudbound (Algonquin).

Dozens of concurrent sessions will reveal the inside story of how Virginia librarians are adding value to their communities.  Virginia Library Association forums and committees will meet.  A wide variety of library vendors will be on hand to show off the latest supporting products and technologies.  And there will be time to relax and network socially without computers.

All this and free WiFi too!  Plan on joining your friends and colleagues in Williamsburg this October!

Nancy Dowd  http://themwordblog.blogspot.com/ Hillary Jordan  http://hillaryjordan.com/

***Registration forms will be available later this summer and will be sent via email to all VLA Members***

ALCTS ALA Annual preconference: “Local Collections, Collective Context: Managing Print

All sessions begin at 2 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Central and 11 a.m. Pacific time.

“Local Collections, Collective Context: Managing Print Collections in the Age of Collaboration”

June 4-6, 2012

Emerging shared print initiatives are making it possible for libraries to manage local collections in a collaborative environment. While there are many potential benefits to shared collection management—providing access to more comprehensive collections than a library could build on its own, ensuring preservation through distributed responsibility and freeing up stacks space for other uses—this opportunity presents many challenges as well. How does an individual institution responsibly manage its collection to participate in a regional or national collection? How do libraries make decisions about local collections in the context of consortial, regional and national priorities?

This virtual preconference should be attended by any library staff interested in learning about shared print collection management. Learn about several elements of shared collection management.  Learn strategies applicable in their own institutions, consortium or collective, for topics such as: sharing commitments to retain materials to support resource sharing; identifying common bibliographic issues that inhibit effective shared collection management; using collections data to support collaborative decision-making; creating a shared collection management plan; and communicating and providing outreach to users and other local constituents.

Monday, June 4

“Shared Collection Management: Collaborative Decision-Making” presented by Doug Way, Grand Valley State University; Dr. Barbara J. Cockrell, Western Michigan University; Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer, consultants, Sustainable Collections Services.

Tuesday, June 5

“Shared Collection Management: Bibliographic Aspects” presented by Constance Malpas, OCLC, and Lizanne Payne, library collections consultant.

Wednesday, June 6    

“Shared Collection Management: Planning and Communication” presented by Samuel Demas, Sam Demas Collaborative Consulting and Robert Kieft, Occidental College.

For more information visit the “Local Collections ” page on the ALCTS website.

Registration is open now.  Individual sessions for each preconference are $39 for ALCTS members, $49 for non-members, $99 for groups and, as always, free to LIS students.  A discounted rate is available if you want to register for all the sessions included in each preconference:  $95 for ALCTS members, $118 for non-members and $258 for groups.  Register through ALA Online Learning.

If you have any questions, please contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Continuing Education, jreese@ala.org.

Did you attend our 20th VLA Paraprofessional Forum Conference in Richmond last week? Here is a link to the Presentations from the conference (new presentations are being added daily, so if the one you are looking for isn’t here yet, please check back. Thank you!

2012 VLAPF Conference Presentations

VLA Paraprofessional Clara Stanley Scholarship

The 2012 recipient of the VLAPF Clara Stanley Scholarship is Zoe Dellinger from Edinburg, VA. Currently, Zoe works as the Circulation Supervisor at the Shenandoah County Library. As she stated, “Libraries in small, rural communities such as ours have few other institutions that provide afterschool programs, teen activities, arts enrichment, entertainment and lifelong learning. Our library is essential to the economic, social and cultural well-being of our community” and she is proud to be contributing to that community. Zoe has been active in VLA since 2010. She is obtaining her MLIS degree and a Graduate Advanced Certificate in library management from the University of North Texas.

VLA Scholarship

The 2012 recipient of the VLA Scholarship is Claire Covington of Fishersville, VA. She has been employed as the Youth Services Coordinator at the August County Library since July 2011 and began working there in March 2009 as a Library Assistant. One of Claire’s goals in obtaining a graduate degree is to “promote, educate, and entertain patrons in order to increase library usage and to instill a lifelong love of reading in the people of my community.” She has been active in VLA since 2010. Claire is earning her MLIS degree from the University of South Carolina.