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Connect & Communicate Spaghetti Session

February 27, 2015

Spaghetti Session
A Connect & Communicate Series Discussion
Friday, March 13, 1:00pm

During this hour, we’ll discuss a variety of topics suggested by PA academic librarians through our Padlet wall at http://padlet.com/amynsnyder/CandC. You throw your ideas (spaghetti) on our wall (Padlet), and we’ll see which ones stick. We’ll spend some time discussing ideas and possibly shaping some of them into topics for full-length discussion or presentation.

This will be an informal discussion, during which all attendees are encouraged to participate. The easiest way to participate is through the use of a headset with microphone, but attendees may alternately participate via chat.

Throw spaghetti at http://padlet.com/amynsnyder/CandC

Register at http://goo.gl/forms/ADI3BpdEGU

Join the conversation on Friday, March 13, at 1:00 p.m. at http://centralpenn.adobeconnect.com/r1joxmjimh2/

For this program, participants are encouraged to utilize a headset with microphone. However, a headset is not required, and participants may join the discussion via the meeting room chat box.
A recording of the program will be made available to PaLA members.

Before the Discussion:

To test your computer (recommended): http://centralpenn.adobeconnect.com/r1joxmjimh2/
To run the Adobe Connect Meeting Connection Diagnostic: http://admin.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

If you would like to be emailed directly about this and other upcoming Connect & Communicate Series events, you may provide us with your name and email address here: http://goo.gl/4urXl . (If you submitted previously, you are still on our list.)

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! We’re getting some great suggestions and themes are starting to emerge, but we could also use some more speaker names. If you or someone you know is doing something great in Pennsylvania’s academic libraries, tell us about it!

The Connect & Communicate Series of online programming offered by the PaLA College & Research Division aims to help foster a community of academic librarians in Pennsylvania. Please contact Jill Hallam-Miller at jbhm001@bucknell.edu or at 570-577-2055 with questions.

WPWVC Virtual Poster Session Now Online

February 26, 2015

tags: wpwvc acrl

by John Barnett

Winter is a difficult time to travel to a conference: Just ask your colleagues who were “lucky” enough to attend ALA Midwinter in snowbound Chicago in February.

To avoid the ice and the snow yet still provide a professional development opportunity for its members, the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries (WPWVC/ACRL) is now hosting the 2015 Virtual Poster Session.

This online event, a first for the chapter, features digital posters on the theme of “Building Community @ Your Library.” The presentations provide examples of how academic libraries and their staff can build community with their native audiences as well as with external groups.

Featured posters include–

“Building Community @ the Bevier Engineering Library” by Anne Schwan and Judy Brink, University of Pittsburgh
“Hello Neighbor: Building Community with the High School Next Door” by Carrie Bishop, Penn Sate-DuBois
“Creating Community through the Sharing of Primary Sources: Or, That’s Why They’re Known as Special Collections!” by Clare Withers and Jeanann Haas, University of Pittsburgh

All posters were peer-reviewed by members of the WPWVC/ACRL. This virtual programming was envisioned and organized by David Kupas, University Of Pittsburgh-Johnstown, who is the Chair of the WPWVC Program Committee.

As part of this online engagement, WPWVC/ACRL Website Administrator Stephanie Gillespie of Duquesne University also hosted a virtual chat via Twitter, in which presenters logged on to discuss and answer questions about their posters. This session took place on Tuesday, February 24, from 3 to 5 p.m.

It’s not too late, though–you can read the discussion and continue to contribute to it by tweeting to the WPWVC Twitter account, @wpwvcacrl, and by using the hashtag, #wpwvcvirtual15.

Save the date: ACLCP Spring Conference

February 20, 2015

by Katie Stewart

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015

Location: Holiday Inn Harrisburg East, Harrisburg

Save the date for the ACLCP (Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania) Spring Conference! This year’s theme is “The Evolving Academic Library”. Take this opportunity to learn about the continuing changes in physical space, the new generation of students, and even our very jobs themselves.

Attend the conference and discover how libraries continue to evolve and what your job might look like in the near future. Stay for the afternoon and learn about Generation Z, the next generation of students who are soon to hit college campuses.

Details on the programs are pending, so stay tuned, but please note that this year’s conference takes place on a THURSDAY.

For more information, contact the ACLCP Programs Committee Co-Chairs, Ben Hoover (bahoover@bucknell.edu) and Denise Shorey (dshorey@ycp.edu).

Call for bloggers

February 4, 2015

by Katie Stewart

Attention readers: If you enjoy writing and blogging about academic libraries, the CRD has a great opportunity for you. The content for our blog has largely been generated by members of CRD board; however, we’re tired of hearing our own voices! This year, we are asking for volunteers who would be willing to contribute more original content to our blog (yes, this blog!). Volunteers would be part of a CRD “blog team” where each individual would be placed on a rotating schedule and asked to write and post content on a regular basis. Posts may consist of news, event announcements, commentary, or opinions relating to your own experience in academic libraries and/or academic libraries in general. If you enjoy writing and wish to share your ideas with a broader community, we would love to have you join our team. Although no prior experience with blogging is required, volunteers will need to create their own WordPress.com accounts in order to post to the blog. If you are interested in learning more or volunteering to be part of the team, please contact Katie Stewart, the CRD’s Social Media Coordinator, at katie.stwrt@gmail.com or 717-871-7122.

Please feel free to forward this message to your fellow colleagues or anyone else you know of that might be interested.

Thank you!

TCLC’s Annual Spring Program for 2015

January 27, 2015

by Katie Stewart

“The Maker Movement & You: Creating, Collaborating, and Crafting in your Library”

SugarLoaf Hill, Chestnut Hill College, April 24^th, 9:30am to 3:30pm

TCLC (Tri-State College Library Cooperative) invites all library staff to explore ways you can turn your library into a maker space, a place where library and user interest converge to create ideas, projects or objects – and all on a shoestring budget! See how academic and public libraries are collaborating within their communities. Come learn how to prime your physical space for innovation and creation.

Refer to the attachment link below for speakers and program descriptions.

TCLC Spring Program 2015 Save the date