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Spinning the Plates: How to Manage Projects, Time, Staff and Promote your Library

April 6, 2015

PaLA Southwest Chapter will host its spring workshop, Spinning the Plates: How to Manage Projects, Time, Staff and Promote your Library, at Community College of Allegheny County South Campus on Friday, May 15, 2015, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.. The workshop fee, which includes a continental breakfast and full lunch is $25 for PaLA member and $40 for nonmembers.

For more information and to register: http://www.palibraries.org/events/event_list.asp

Directions to CCAC – South: https://www.ccac.edu/Maps_and_Directions_to_South_Campus.aspx

Break out! Plan a session for the PaLA Annual Conference

April 4, 2015

tags: conference, pala, professional development

by John Barnett

The 2015 PaLA Conference Program Committee is now accepting conference session proposals for the 2015 PaLA Conference, PA Libraries: Engage, Educate, Enrich. The conference will take place October 4 – 7, 2015, at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania.

If you are, or know someone that is, an expert on a topic that you feel will be of interest to librarians, we invite you to submit a session proposal. The Program Committee is particularly interested in receiving proposals on topics suggested by previous PaLA conference attendees. You can view a list of these suggested topics here.

All proposals should be submitted via the online program proposal link. For a working copy of the form, or to view the questions in advance of submission, a PDF of the form is available for download. The link to both the online form and PDF are available on the 2015 Conference Information Page of the PaLA website, accessed by clicking on the “Annual Conference” button in the right-hand menu of the PaLA homepage.

The deadline for submission of proposals is Friday, April 17, 2015. The program committee will notify all submitters regarding the acceptance of their proposal(s) in early May. Poster session proposals will be solicited in mid-April through mid-May.

Thank you in advance to all that submit proposals, we appreciate your dedication to PaLA and to Pennsylvania’s libraries!

Register now for the 2015 ACLCP Spring Program!

April 2, 2015

by Nathan Pease

Registration is now open for the 2015 ACLCP Spring Conference.

This year’s theme is “People and Place: The Evolving Academic Library”. Our three speakers will share their perspectives and insights on the newest “letter” generation, the continually changing nature of our jobs, and the spaces that make up our workplace.

The conference is on THURSDAY, April 16, 2015, at the Holiday Inn-Harrisburg, but the registration deadline is April 13.

See the flyer for details about the speakers, registration, and conference events: http://www2.aclcp.org/documents/program-spring2015flyer.pdf. Or go straight to the registration form: http://goo.gl/forms/zinPIuTdla. Both are available on the ACLCP website.

We hope to see you there!

For questions, please contact:
Ben Hoover (bahoover@bucknell.edu) or
Denise Shorey (dshorey@ycp.edu)
ACLCP Program Co-Chairs

Free Webinar April 13th: Common Core and Libraries

April 1, 2015

by Katie Stewart

The Teaching, Learning, and Technology (TL&T) Roundtable is hosting a free webinar for librarians titled “Common Core and Libraries.”

The webinar will be held on Monday, April 13 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. It will feature Allison Mackley, a National Board Certified Teacher-Librarian and Instructional Technology Coach at Hershey High School, and Ellysa Stern Cahoy, an Education Librarian and an Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State University Libraries.

You can register for the webinar at the following link: http://www.palibraries.org/events/event_details.asp?id=618104#

You will also find a brochure there with more information.

For more details, contact:
Christine Iannicelli
Chair of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable
610-647-4400 ext. 3831
ciannicelli@immaculata.edu