Cancelled Sessions

Freedom to Read Foundation Member Reception

Intellectual Freedom, Librarianship

Meeting of the Board Update (ACRL)

Managing a courier service requires a thorough understanding of the request for proposals (RFPs) process, from writing them through awarding them. Take advantage of the in-depth knowledge and experience this group of managers and directors have garnered through creating, responding to, evaluating, and awarding RFPs, as well as assessing performance once the RFP has been awarded.

Administration and Management, Professional Development, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Transforming Libraries, Foundations

Division members; Early Bird: $129.00, Advanced: $159.00, ALA members; Early Bird: $149.00, Advanced: $179.00 Non ALA members; Early Bird: $169.00, Advanced: $199.00, Students//Retirees; Early Bird: $179.00, Advanced: $119.00

In this hackathon attendees will learn to use the Bootstrap front-end framework and the Git version control system to create, modify and share code for a new library website. Expect a friendly atmosphere and a creative hands-on experience that will introduce you to web literacy for the 21st century librarian. Morning will consist of in-depth introductions to the tools, while afternoon will see participants split into working groups to build a single collaborative library website.

Emerging Technologies, Technology

$235 LITA Member; $350 ALA Member; $380 Non-Member

Public library summer meal programs keep kids healthy, fed, and engaged while school is out. These programs contribute to community efforts to address summer learning loss and food insecurity, while bringing new families to the library and strengthening relationships with existing customers. Participants at the Lunch at the Library workshop will learn how to establish their libraries as successful summer meal sites and connect families with library programs and services. Presenters include nutrition experts who will discuss the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program and the need for public library summer meal sites, and librarians who are operating successful summer meal sites, to share how they got started, their successes and challenges, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Presentations and small group discussions will include such topics as getting started as a summer meal site; working with meal providers; recruiting and working with volunteers; promoting your summer meal site and summer programs; coordinating activities and programs to complement the meal service; developing new community partnerships to support your program; evaluating your meal service; transforming your summer meal site into a meaningful youth development program; and telling your story.At the end of the session, attendees will have the opportunity to observe a summer meal program at the San Francisco Public Library (confirmation pending). In California, Lunch at the Library is an IMLS LSTA-supported statewide summer
program. This workshop is co-sponsored by the California Library Association, California Summer Meal Coalition, and San Francisco Public
Library.

If you are a member of CLA use special code AFL2015 to receive the price of $109.

Member - $159, Non Member - $225

ACRL Board Orientation

School library staffing around the country currently faces a wide range of challenges, from systems facing a shortage of credentialed candidates to other systems where school library positions have been eliminated. Additionally, licensure requirements vary widely from state to state and impact university preparation and school hiring decisions. As a result, school libraries may be left unstaffed or staffed by paraprofessionals or others unprepared for the challenges facing twenty-first century school libraries. How do we prepare new “leaders to transform teaching and learning” in this context? How and where should we be recruiting these leaders? These are issues facing school library supervisors and university preparation programs, yet they have significant implications for all K-12 education stakeholders concerned with preparing students who are workplace and college ready. Faced with these challenges, school systems and universities are exploring innovative paths to the recruitment, preparation and support of school library staff. In this session a panel of district library supervisors, state leaders, and library school faculty will share perspectives on the issue, strategies to identify and prepare library candidates, and highlight innovative efforts to prepare a new generation of school librarians who will be leaders in the transformation of teaching and learning. The panel of district library supervisors and library school faculty will share perspectives on the issue, strategies to identify and prepare library candidates, and highlight innovative efforts to prepare a new generation of school librarians.

Library School Education, Networking, Youth Services

Where does innovation come from? How can you bring more innovation to your library? Hosted by California Library Association Join Robert Karatsu and Michelle Perera from the 2013 National Medal-winning Rancho Cucamonga Public Library as they explain where they found the inspiration to create
such things as their Play and Learn IslandsTM or the “RC2Go!” Pop-up mobile City Hall. They will also address how to apply innovation to your daily routine. This program will be interactive, with exercises that will foster innovation, and spark ideas that you can take back to your library following this conference.

If you are a member of CLA use special code AFL2015 to receive of the price of $109.

Member - $159, Non Member - $225

Business Meeting

Diversity, Social Change

Meeting of CaMMS Executive Committee

We're sorry, but this session has been cancelled.

Advocacy, Community Engagement, Equity of Access, Rural and Small Libraries, Support Staff

CANCELLED Everyone is invited to this ACRL Arts Section meeting.

Hiring Manager: How will you identify your new Digital Librarian, your next Embedded Information Professional? How will you pick them out of a hiring line-up? Are you prepared to find librarians who will get us through the coming waves of successive changes in a quickly eveloving information marketplace?
Information & Library School Student: Can you articulate how you will add value for tomorrow’s library experience in a competitive market?
Join a panel of library professionals, a professor, and student, as they discuss qualities needed when hiring and how well today’s library school graduates are prepared to meet those needs.

Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Change, Technology, Transforming Libraries

Attend the program of the IRC Americas Subcommittee.

AWE Customer Breakfast

Children's Services, Literacy

Exclusive to group members

LITA Metadata Standards Committee

update

Digital Libraries, Emerging Technologies, Information Literacy, Instruction, Technology

Distance Learning, Electronic Resources, Emerging Technologies, Information Literacy, Instruction, Librarianship, Technology, Transforming Libraries, Trends and Forecasting

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Advocacy, Marketing

SESSION MOVED -- Join us for a joint program with ALCTS CaMMS CMIG and LITA MSC

Data Clean-Up: Let's Not Sweep It Under the Rug

Date: Saturday, June 27, 2015
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Location: MCC - 2022 (W) (Moscone Convention Center – West Building)

Description:
Data migration is inevitable in a world in which technological infrastructures and data standards continue to evolve. Whether you work in a catalog database or a digital library/archives/institutional repository, working with library resource data means that you will eventually be required to usher data from one system or standard to another. Three speakers working in different library contexts will share their data normalization experiences.

Speakers:
Amy Rudersdorf
Assistant Director for Content
Digital Public Library of America

Amy will address data normalization from the digital library perspective.

Terry Reese
Head Digital Initiatives, Associate Professor
Ohio State University

Terry will address the role that tools such as MarcEdit can play in the context of data normalization and cleanup.

Kyle Banerjee
Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian
Oregon Health and Science University

Kyle will address the role data normalization is playing in the Orbis Cascade Alliance.

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Program planning co-chairs:

Jennifer A. Liss
Head, Monographic Cataloging Image Unit
Indiana University Libraries
jaliss@indiana.edu

Roman S. Panchyshyn, MLIS
Catalog Librarian, Assistant Professor
Kent State University Libraries
rpanchys@kent.edu

Jenn Riley
Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives
McGill Library
jenn.riley@mcgill.ca

Cathy Weng
Head of Cataloging
The College of New Jersey Library
weng@tcnj.edu

Administration and Management, Cataloging, Integrated Library Systems (ILS), Metadata

LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Business Meeting Interest Group.

School library staffing around the country currently faces a wide range of challenges, from systems facing a shortage of credentialed candidates to other systems where school library positions have been eliminated. Additionally, licensure requirements vary widely from state to state and impact university preparation and school hiring decisions. As a result, school libraries may be left unstaffed or staffed by paraprofessionals or others unprepared for the challenges facing twenty-first century school libraries. How do we prepare new “leaders to transform teaching and learning” in this context? How and where should we be recruiting these leaders? These are issues facing school library supervisors and university preparation programs, yet they have significant implications for all K-12 education stakeholders concerned with preparing students who are workplace and college ready. Faced with these challenges, school systems and universities are exploring innovative paths to the recruitment, preparation and support of school library staff. In this session a panel of district library supervisors, state leaders, and library school faculty will share perspectives on the issue, strategies to identify and prepare library candidates, and highlight innovative efforts to prepare a new generation of school librarians who will be leaders in the transformation of teaching and learning.

The panel of district library supervisors and library school faculty will share perspectives on the issue, strategies to identify and prepare library candidates, and highlight innovative efforts to prepare a new generation of school librarians.

Administration and Management, Diversity, Human Resources, Leadership, Library School Education, Mentoring, Partnerships, Personnel and Staffing, Recruitment

Meeting of the joint ALCTS/LITA interest group

Digital Libraries, Emerging Technologies, Metadata, Trends and Forecasting

Collection Development, Community Engagement

The panel will discuss the merits and concerns of creating a book award specifically for graphic literature. Topics will include the still-fluid definition of the format, the impact of graphic novels on American readership, criteria for excellence and guidelines for selection, which readers an award would be for, and what awards already exist for the graphic novel format. We’ll be asking some of the hard questions in one conversation: why isn’t there already an award for graphic novels, and, is a separate award for the graphic novel format really needed? Get ready for a diverse array of perspectives from the panel featuring:
- Gene Luen Yang: cartoonist and high school Computer Science teacher, author of Printz Award-winning American Born Chinese (Twitter: @geneluenyang)
- Candice Mack: Senior Librarian, Teen Services, Los Angeles Public Library, former chair of Great Graphic Novels committee (Twitter: @tinylibrarian)
- Dave Roman: cartoonist and Kids’ Comics Revolution! co-founder, author of Astronaut Academy (Twitter: @yaytime)
- Laura Given: K-8 Media Specialist, 2016 Caldecott committee member and chair of Star of the North Picture Book Award (Twitter: @liblaura5)
- Charles Brownstein: writer and Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) (Twitter: @C_Brownstein)
- Moderated by Rebecca Oxley: K-8 Teacher-Librarian, Black Eyed Susan Graphic Novel committee member and iDiversity founder (Twitter: @LibrariansFTW)

Advocacy, Children's Literature, Collection Development, Diversity, Young Adult Literature

Discussion group focusing on topics of interest to statewide library cooperatives, multi-state cooperatives, national cooperatives, and multi-type library systems. Discussion topics and presentations often cover consortial funding, advocacy, collaborations, services, staffing, innovation, and more.

Administration and Management, Advocacy, Funding, Resource Sharing

Access to News Sources

Collection Development, Electronic Resources

There are specific and unique requirements associated with Federal civil service. Attend this session to learn the point-by-point tips for every step in the process. Meet the mentors available to help you find a position in a specific type of library. Brought to you by Careers in Federal Libraries.

Career Advice, Networking

ALCTS – Collection Management Section (CMS)

Administration of Collection Management Interest Group (ACM-IG) and
Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries (CDLAL-IG)

Joint Program: Annual Meeting, San Francisco
When: Saturday, June 27, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Administration and Management, Budget Planning and Finance, Collection Development, Personnel and Staffing, Support Staff

Open forum for librarians working in and with researchers in criminal justice/criminology fields. Invited speakers TBD.

Assessment and Evaluation, Collection Development, Emerging Technologies, Information Literacy, Librarianship

The Curators and Conservators Discussion group seeks to add to the body of information on curator / conservator relations and to encourage the education of curators and conservators about their respective professions; to provide a forum for discussion about topics of mutual interest; to identify, recommend, and facilitate creation of continuing education seminars through the Seminars Committee; to publicize issues concerning curators and conservators by encouraging the publication of relevant articles in appropriate journals

Collection Development, Preservation, Special Collections

Membership and Communications Committee meeting for the CJCLS, Community & Junior College Library Section.

discussion

The 2016 Arbuthnot committee will meet to discuss location hosts for the 2016 Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.

Children's Literature, Children's Services, Youth Services

Exclusive to group members

GMS Hosted Dinner

Exclusive to group members

Enjoy an enchanting evening of performances celebrating the power of storytelling to unite communities. This NOCHE event will also feature an art auction of original art work donated by prominent Latino children's books illustrators in support of the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Pura Belpre Award. Enjoy the stories, enjoy the art!

For more information, please visit: http://nochedecuentos.org/

Advocacy, Children's Literature, Children's Services, Diversity, Fundraising, Multicultural Services, Young Adult Literature, Young Adult Services

Some students with Autism, ADHD, and/or other executive functioning or sensory processing challenges sometimes do not feel comfortable with the modern, busy library. How can a school librarian be an advocate while still maintaining a collaborative atmosphere? Come learn more about what it means to be a library that is a haven for the neurodiverse! We'll learn some easy (and inexpensive) design adjustments and brainstorm solutions for your school community.

Children's Services, Diversity, Special Needs Populations, Young Adult Services

LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group

Meeting of the Publications Coordinating Committee

Meeting of the ALA Center for Civic Life Advisory Committee

This session has been cancelled. Please visit Digitallearn.org to become involved with the project.

Digital Libraries, Public Services

Committee Meeting

In
Illustrated with the gorgeous paper cuts for which Nikki McClure is known, In reminds us of the essential childhood pleasures found in an engaged day of imaginative play and exploration, without electronics, scheduled activities, or adults.

Come discuss Al's new book "Progressive Library Organizations: A Worldwide History".

Sir Cumference and the Roundabout Battle
Castle steward Edmund Rounds relies on the assistance of his son, Rounds 2, to keep count of the castle’s supplies. Rounds 2 loves to count but struggles when it comes to totaling up his numbers. But when Sir Wantsalot’s crew wages an attack on the castle, Rounds 2 is called upon to give Sir Cumference a weaponry count. An adventure in rounding!

“Big Heads” of Public Services discusses issues of common interest to the senior public service administrators of the 50 ARL research libraries. The Annual and Midwinter meetings provide a forum for the exchange of information on new developments, techniques and problems in administering public services.

Meeting to plan special LES program for 2016 ALA Annual

Meeting to discuss LES Membership business.

Meeting of the ACRL LES Nominating Committee.