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Connect & Communicate Series: LGBTQ+ Safe Places in Your Library

March 17, 2025
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Join CRD’s Connect & Communicate Series for a Webinar on
 LGBTQ+ Safe Places in Your Library
 Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 3:00PM-4:00PM Eastern

With LGBTQ+ rights under constant attack, now is the time for Libraries to step up and be active safe places for the queer community. Learn how you and your library can be strong allies by creating safe places where we can grow our connections and sense of community. From passive programs to grand gestures, we can all work towards holding up the ideal that Libraries Are For Everyone. Leading the conversation is Fawn Contreras from the Valley Community Library who will share how patrons have been helped with identity at Valley, what they’ve said, and give an example of a strong partnership they’ve built. This session will also include plenty of conversation about LGBTQ+ books for all ages, and how you can grow an inclusive collection which is a vital part of being a safe place.

Our registration is limited to 50 participants, so register early, and consider group attendance with a single registration and connection at your library!

Register at the following link: https://forms.gle/EEaAtV59BHYiMZcd6 

Upon submitting your registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes details about connecting to the webinar. This is the only notification you will receive. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com.

For this program, you will need speakers or headphones to hear the presenter. Participants are encouraged to ask questions via the chatbox; moderators will monitor the chatbox and facilitate question and response at the end of the panel discussion.

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! 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 Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com with questions.

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Connect & Communicate Series: Researching Historical Trademarks: Utilizing HathiTrust and the USPTO

February 18, 2025
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Join CRD’s Connect & Communicate Series for a Webinar on
 Researching Historical Trademarks: Utilizing HathiTrust and the USPTO
 Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 3:00PM-4:00PM Eastern

Trademarks are distinctive symbols, words, or designs that identify and differentiate goods or services in the marketplace. They serve as powerful marketing tools and provide legal protection for businesses. The history of trademarks in the United States offers valuable insights into the nation’s commercial development and the growing importance of brand identity. This session will explore the history of U.S. trademarks and an overview of effective methods for researching historical trademarks. Attendees will learn how to leverage resources such as HathiTrust and the United States Patent & Trademark Office’s Search System to uncover historical trademarks. Librarians will leave better equipped to assist researchers in looking to trace a trademark.

Our registration is limited to 50 participants, so register early, and consider group attendance with a single registration and connection at your library!

Register at the following link: https://forms.gle/vscxhDbxRkXT1F1S9 

Upon submitting your registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes details about connecting to the webinar. This is the only notification you will receive. If you do not receive the confirmation email, please contact Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com.

For this program, you will need speakers or headphones to hear the presenter. Participants are encouraged to ask questions via the chatbox; moderators will monitor the chatbox and facilitate question and response at the end of the panel discussion.

Please continue to share your ideas for programming topics, speakers, or formats with us! 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 Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com with questions.

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Call for Presenters! PaLA’s Connect and Communicate Series for 2025

February 3, 2025
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The Pennsylvania Library Association’s College and Research Division Connect and Communicate Series provides programming that is relevant to and useful for academic librarians.

If you have a session you would like to share with our academic library community, we invite you to submit a proposal. If there is a speaker you would like to hear from, you are also welcome to include that information in our proposal form. For inspiration, please explore the suggested topics listed below this call.

This opportunity is grant funded, and a presentation can earn you up to $300! (If there are multiple presenters, this fund will be divided equally between speakers).

Please submit your ideas using our online form: https://forms.gle/LFsm3GtxEw8UBuyN8 

There’s more information at the Connect & Communicate webpage: https://crdpala.org/connect-communicate/

Recordings of the most recent recent sessions are available on the C&CS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdr724MhuZV7bh_iOOlc-Q

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the CRD Connect & Communicate Coordinator, Elliott Rose at elliott.c.rose@gmail.com 

2025 C&CS Suggested Topics

Library Instruction

  • Practical tips for developing tutorials or asynchronous instructional modules
  • Information Literacy assessment
  • How to balance student engagement with faculty expectations in a one-shot

Student Engagement/Outreach

  • Library advocacy and engaging community; supporting student groups
  • Student and community engagement practices, community partnerships and programs
  • Cross-campus collaborations
  • Student employees
  • Customer service in libraries

DEIA

  • DEIA: collection development, services, programming
  • Professional development relating to DEIA and libraries
  • Accessibility in libraries and library services/materials
  • ADA accommodations process and legality issues for library employees and their managers

Physical library spaces

  • Space planning
  • Safety and emergency procedures
  • Successful Library Displays
  • Running libraries/programs with part-time staff

Marketing/Publicity

  • Marketing library services
  • Library services in unprecedented times or working in a library that is impacted by external factors

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PaLRaP: Call for Submissions

January 10, 2025
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Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice (PaLRaP.org) is accepting submissions for research, practice, feature, and commentary articles as well as news items for the Spring 2025 issue (vol. 13, no. 1).

Research, practice, feature, and commentary manuscripts are welcomed at any time; however, for full consideration for the spring issue, please submit your manuscripts by February 15, 2025.

News item submissions (staff changes, awards/recognitions, events, initiatives, etc. happening in PA libraries that may be of interest to other libraries) are also welcome at any time. However, for full consideration for the spring issue, please submit your news items here by April 1, 2025.

PaLRAP is also looking for new spotlight writer and additional copy/layout editors. Please reach out to us if you are interested.

For more information about PaLRaP, including submission guidelines and section policies, visit http://www.palrap.org.

PaLRaP is a peer-reviewed, online, open access publication of the Pennsylvania Library Association’s College & Research Division. This journal provides an opportunity for librarians in Pennsylvania to share their knowledge and experience with practicing librarians across the Commonwealth and beyond. It includes articles from all areas of librarianship, with a special focus on activities at or of interest to Pennsylvania’s academic libraries.

Published biannually: May and November

Co-Editors: Kate Cummings & Roseanne Perkins

Peer reviewers: Members of the Pennsylvania library community

#palra

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CRD Virtual Journal Club Spring 2025 Series

January 7, 2025
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Greetings and Happy New Year!

You are cordially invited to participate in the Spring 2025 series of the Virtual Journal Club, sponsored by the College & Research Division of the Pennsylvania Library Association!

Please use this form to indicate which topic(s) you would be interested in reading about in the fall series, as well as indicate your scheduling preferences.

You are welcome to attend one, two, or all three of the meetings to discuss the readings. If you are interested in participating, please feel free to sign up – there is no cost and no commitment beyond your time to read and discuss the articles.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Fall 2024 series on student information seeking behaviors!

Please feel free to Melissa Correl at correllm@arcadia.edu reach out with any questions.

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