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2017 VLA New Members Round Table Forum Mentoring Program

Are you interested in expanding your professional network? The VLA NMRT Mentoring Program is designed to help new VLA members grow professionally through partnerships with seasoned VLA members. The program is open to the following:

Mentees: Librarians or library staff members in the first five years of their professional career, library school students. See this guide for more details.

Mentors: A career mentor must have been employed in a professional position for at least five years and be willing to correspond with their mentee at least once a month in whatever manner is most convenient for both parties. See this guide for more details.

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National Library Legislative Day 2017

National Library Legislative Day (NLLD) is just around the corner!   This annual, two-day event will take place in Washington, D.C., on May 1 and May 2, 2017, at the Liaison Hotel on Capitol Hill.  

NLLD is open to anyone who is passionate about libraries, including staff, trustees and Friends members.  It provides library champions an opportunity to meet with Virginia's representatives and make a case for continued support for LSTA, IMLS and various policies, such as patron privacy protection.  VLA provides up to $400 in financial support for any VLA member who attends NLLD (up to $200 per day for 2 days.)You can register via this link:  http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/nlld.

Important dates to remember:
March 30, 2017, Hotel Block Closes
April 8, 2017, NLLD Registration Closes

For more information on NLLD, please visit www.ala.org/nlld

If you have any questions about attending NLLD, please feel free to contact me via phone or e-mail at the contacts below.
Best,
Renee DiPilato, Virginia NLLD Coordinator, [email protected]

Renee DiPilato
Deputy Director of Libraries | Alexandria Library
5005 Duke Street | Alexandria, VA 22304
703.746.1724 | alexlibraryva.org

 

2017 VLACRL Spring Program: Diversity in Our Libraries

When: June 7, 2017, 9:30am - 3:00pm

Where: JMRL Central Branch Library, 201 E. Market Street in Charlottesville, VA.
Registration is OPEN for the VLACRL “Spring” Program, Diversity In Our Libraries. The program is going to be held on June 7, 2017 from 9:30 AM-3:00 PM at the JMRL Central Branch Library, 201 E. Market Street in Charlottesville, VA.
Join us for a day of learning and sharing!
Our morning will include a keynote presentation by Tarida Anantachai, librarian at Syracuse University and member of the inaugural ACRL Diversity Alliance Taskforce, and a panel discussion with diversity alliance resident participants. After lunch, we will have round table discussions on a variety of topics including universal design, collections, and library programming. We will close out the day with a presentation given by the VLA Diversity & Inclusion Forum.

Registration is $35 for VLA members, $55 for non-members. Registration includes light morning refreshments and lunch. Previous registrants do not need to re-register.


Parking is not included in registration. Parking is available in the Market or Water Street garages. Cost information is here http://www.charlottesvilleparking.com/index.php/locations JMRL will validate up to 2 hours of parking.

Please register by Friday, May 26 to reserve your spot!

Register Here: VLACRL Program: Diversity in Our Libraries, June 7

-Last updated 5/1/2017

 

 

The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC) grant

The Innovative Library Classroom (TILC) is pleased to announce a conference grant to attend the 2017 conference, held at Radford University in Radford, VA on May 10th and May 11th. The grant will help someone from an underrepresented and/or marginalized group attend the conference by providing funding for registration or accommodations at a nearby hotel. Multiple applicants may be awarded the grant.

To be eligible to apply for the travel grant you must:

  • Be working in librarianship (professional or paraprofessional), pursing a job in librarianship, or enrolled in an ALA accredited post-graduate program.
  • Identify as a member of a racial or ethnic minority in the United States, the LGBTQ+ community, or as a person with a disability.
  • Underrepresented and/or marginalized groups are identified in accordance with the ALA’s Office of Diversity recruitment resources.

Applications will be accepted until February 27, 2017. For more details and to apply, visit: https://goo.gl/forms/GX5Iep8S7N2IVPOm2.

Applicants will be notified of the decision of the grant committee before general registration for the conference opens on Monday, March 13th. Applicants who are not awarded a grant but would still like to attend the conference must participate in the general registration opening on March 13th.

 

VLA Intellectual Freedom Update 

The following email was sent to all VLA members on February 1, 2017:

We are sending this email in an attempt to update our members on the efforts the organization has been making to protect Intellectual Freedom throughout Virginia.

Last November, VLA alerted its members to a regulation that had been proposed to the Virginia Department of Education regarding parental notification of sexually explicit materials in classes. At the time, VLA, the Virginia Association of School Librarians, the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, Virginia's ACLU Chapter, and the National Coalition Against Censorship all wrote letters to the Board of Education to oppose the regulation. On January 26, the Board of Education voted against the regulation: http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/article_8ed03dc4-593b-5f65-84b7-7ba74652aaa9.html. Here is a thank you letter written by VLA President Keith Weimer to Dr. Cynthia A. Cave, Assistant Superintendent, Policy and Communications for the Department of Education.

In December 2016, VLA wrote thank you letters to the Accomack County School Board when they put The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird back on shelves after a parental complaint.

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