PLA e-News
Volume 6, Number 15
December 5, 2003
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SPOTLIGHT ON PLA PLATINUM PARTNER PROQUEST INFORMATION AND LEARNING
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EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE NEARS
The Early-Bird Deadline for the PLA Conference is December 19, 2003. PLA members who register before the early-bird deadline receive a substantial discount. Don't miss this opportunity to save - visit www.pla.org to register online or call 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5752 to have the form sent to you. The final advance registration deadline is 1/23/04.
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PLA CONFERENCE NEWS: PDA DOWNLOADS AND ONLINE PLACEMENT CENTER
PDA Downloads
Prior to conference, attendees will be able to download the conference program, late-breaking conference information, exhibitor information, floor plans and more, to personal digital assistants or to mini-pcs. The download link will be available on PLA's website in late January. In addition, there will be download stations available onsite at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center. Thanks to ProQuest for sponsorship of this project.
The PLA Placement Center (held in conjunction with the PLA 10th National Conference) is now available online. The Online Placement Center will feature the following services:
- posting of job openings in a searchable, online database,
- posting of job seeker information in a searchable, online database,
- online messaging center for use by registered employers and job seekers
Job openings and job seeker information will be accessible in an online database rather than in notebooks. That means job seekers can scan job openings and employers can consider candidates from any computer with Internet access! There will be computers available at various locations throughout the convention center, so job seekers and employers will have immediate access to new and updated information.
All jobs as well as job seeker information will be searchable on key variables such as state or region, job type, and salary level, so you can access exactly what you need. Upon registering for this service, employers who list job vacancies will be billed $200 for unlimited postings. Only registered employers have access to job seekers information. Employers must schedule their own interviews onsite (location to be arranged on their own).
If you have questions about using the Online Placement Center, please contact Melissa Fuhrman mfuhrman@ala.org or 312-280-5022.
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THERE'S STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR A PRECONFERENCE
Use the registration form at www.pla.org to sign up for one of these great preconference learning events (price not included in conference registration fee):
Preconference One
Defending Access With Confidence: A Practical Workshop on Intellectual Freedom (Sponsored by the Washington Library Association)
Tuesday, February 24, 2-5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Preconference Two
Customer Service in a MultiCultural Community
Tuesday, February 24, 2-5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Preconference Three
Genre Boundaries and Crossovers: Readers Advisory Research & Strategies
Tuesday, February 24, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Preconference Four
It's Raining Technology! Channeling Use and Going with the Flow
Tuesday, February 24, 2-5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Preconference Five
Prospecting for Gold: Effective Fundraising Strategies
Tuesday, February 24, 2 - 5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Preconference Six
Emergent Literacy: Walk the Talk
Tuesday, February 24, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Wednesday, February 25, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
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PLA SEEKS INFORMATION BOOTH VOLUNTEERS
The Public Library Association is seeking PLA members to volunteer to help staff our membership booth (#2022 in the Exhibits Hall) during the upcoming ALA Midwinter Meeting.
Exhibit hours are:
Friday, January 9, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 10, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 11, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Monday, January 12, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Please send an email to khughes@ala.org if you are interested in staffing the booth for a one or two hour time slot. Thanks!
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PLA@ALA MIDWINTER MEETING
Click here for a complete list of PLA meetings (including times and locations) that will be held during Midwinter.
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PLA LAUNCHES e-Learning@PLA
PLA has announced the launch of its online education program e-Learning-@-PLA. This new PLA online learning format is designed to help users learn more efficiently and to facilitate ease of collaboration between colleagues and instructors.
The first course of study offered in this new venture will be "Creating Policies for Results." In this course, which is based on the popular American Library Association (ALA) publication, "Creating Policies For Results-From Chaos to Clarity," participants will work with the publication's authors Sandra Nelson and June Garcia, as they encounter real library policy problems. Participants will gain useful knowledge, skills, and judgment that will enable them to produce useable policies tailored to their individual libraries. The curriculum features interactive exercises, collaborative work, and online chats with instructors and colleagues. Each participant will have approximately six-months to finish the course, and then another six-months access to the e-learning@PLA system.
Interested parties are encouraged to enroll in one of following three sessions:
Session I, February 16, 2004
Session II, March 22, 2004
Session III, April 26, 2004
Registration for the first session begins on December 15, 2003. Please note that course curriculum will supplement information provided in "Creating Policies for Results-From Chaos to Clarity," and participants will be expected to have access to a copy of the publication before they begin the course. The book is available via the ALA Online Store at www.ala.org, or by calling the ALA Order Department at 1-866-746-7252.
For more information regarding "e-learning @ PLA" please contact the PLA office at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5752, or www.pla.org
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Libraries and Community: Fostering Civic Engagement in Your Library -- Convening and Moderating Public Issues Forums
Friday, January 9, 2004, 9:00am-5:30pm
A Pre-Midwinter Institute --2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, CA
ALA will conduct a workshop to train librarians how deliberative forums can help communities find common ground for addressing complex issues. The workshop will introduce the tools, methods and theory of deliberative forums developed by the National Issues Forums Institute and used in communities across the country. Participants will practice convening and moderating a discussion of one of today's hot issues, discuss how issues are framed for deliberative discourse, learn how to convene and moderate deliberative forums in their communities, and think together about the role of libraries in building community by promoting and sustaining civil discourse in a contentious world.
Workshop Leaders:
Taylor Willingham is a research associate for the Kettering Foundation and a board member for the National Issues Forums Institute. She has moderated over 200 forums and taught over 30 Public Policy Institutes.
Michele Reid, Director of Libraries at McDaniel College in Westminster (MD), has been a convener and moderator since 1995. As Library Director at Ripon College, she was instrumental in making the deliberative process part of the First Year Studies program.
Cost: After December 1: ALA member: $120. Non-member: $175.
*Price includes refreshment breaks and study materials. Lunch will be on your own.
Background materials for discussion will be mailed to registered participants in advance. To ensure time to mail, registration should be received not later than December 19. On-site registration is subject to availability.
To register, click on the Midwinter Meeting logo at http://www.ala.org
For more information: call Mary Ghikas, 1-800-545-2433 x2518
For more information about NIF and Libraries: Taylor L. Willingham at: taylor@austin-pacific.com or 866.215.0843
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Richard Rodriguez to discuss "Browning of America“ during ALA Midwinter Curley Lecture
Author and essayist Richard Rodriguez will deliver the fifth annual Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture, at 3 p.m., Saturday, January 10, 2004. The lecture entitled “The Color Brown, and the Meaning of the Library," will be held at the San Diego Convention Center Room 16 A/B during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting (January 9 - 14, 2004) in San Diego.
Rodriguez will discuss the mixing of races and cultures taking place throughout the world, but particularly in America. Rodriguez refers to this mixing of cultures and races as “browning” of America, and will discuss how “browning” impacts the way we think about libraries.
At the core of his latest book, “Brown: The Last Discovery of America,” Rodriguez gives an assessment of the meaning of Hispanics to the life in America. Reflecting upon the new demographic profile of the United States, Rodriguez observes that Hispanics are becoming Americanized at the same rate that the United States is becoming Latinized. Hispanics are coloring an American identity that traditionally has chosen to describe itself as black and white.
Known for his critically acclaimed books, the autobiographical “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez” and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father,” Rodriguez writes about the ever-present concepts of race and diversity in American culture and what this means in an ever-changing global culture. He believes that assimilation between races and cultures is not a concept-good or bad-but a fact of life. A native of San Francisco and son of Mexican immigrants, Rodriguez entered school at the age of six, and primarily spoke Spanish. Despite language barriers, he went on to earn degrees in English at Stanford University and philosophy at Columbia University; pursued a doctorate in English and Renaissance literature at UC Berkeley; and spent a year in London on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Rodriguez is an editor at Pacific News Service, and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and The New Republic, as well as other publications.
Rodriguez's awards include the Frankel Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the International Journalism Award from the World Affairs Council of California; and a 1997 George Foster Peabody Award for his NewsHour Essays on American life.
Sponsored by the ALA Public Awareness Committee, the Arthur Curley Memorial Lecture series is delivered each year at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and honors ALA past president Arthur Curley. Curley served as president of ALA in 1994 - 1995 and was director of the Boston Public Library. He was a champion of the arts and of the library’s role in providing for them. The lecture series aims to present speakers who will examine many different aspects of the broad intellectual, cultural, artistic and political life in which librarians play a crucial role.
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