Want to blog for ALSC during the upcoming ALA midwinter conference? The ALSC Blog will be blogging through the midwinter meetings in San Diego, Calif. We hope to be especially active during the Youth Media Awards on Monday, January 10, 2011. Are you interested in blogging? Would you like to contribute? Please contact us at alscblog@gmail.com; we’d love to have your contributions. Let me also take this opportunity to welcome a new blogger to the ALSC Blog. Lisa Taylor, Senior Librarian in Youth Services at the Barnegat Branch of the Ocean County Library in New Jersey is our newest contributor. She has been an occasional guest contributor since 2008; you may recall her most recent post about Virtual ALSC Committee Work. Welcome aboard, Lisa!
Category: ALA Midwinter 2011
ALSC Scope of Attention Motion
Dear ALSC Members, In light of concerns raised by individuals at our membership meeting last summer, new information and points of view revealed through the discussions on ALAConnect, a board divided over the decision, and in consultation with ALA Parliamentarian Eli Mina, I am bringing forward a motion to rescind the ALSC Scope of Attention Motion at the upper level. This action is not meant to undermine the Board but to determine if the majority still feels that moving forward with this motion is in the best interest of ALSC. At the basic parliamentary level, Mr. Mina assured ALSC Executive Director Aimee Strittmater and me that the Board did nothing improper. But after reviewing our history and seeing the comments on ALAConnect, he felt that consideration of rescinding the motion was valid. The feedback we received from members indicates that the decision to bring forward this motion was reached without…
Virtual ALSC Committee Work
While many of you are getting ready to journey to beautiful San Diego for ALA Midwinter, I will be freezing in the northeast; but don’t feel badly for me because I won’t be left out in the cold. Why not? Because I’m a virtual member of an ALSC committee. Are you wondering what a virtual member does? I’m sure this varies a great deal for each committee, but I can offer a glimpse of my role on the Children & Libraries Editorial Advisory Committee. Over the past year, I have encouraged colleagues to submit articles, served as a peer referee for a journal article, offered my suggestions for future issues and articles, and written a short piece for the current Winter 2010 edition of Children & Libraries. I’ve made new connections, gained new experiences, and worked with the journal’s talented editor. Why should you join as a virtual member? There…
Midwinter Advance Registration Reminder
Just a reminder that discounted advance registration for ALA Midwinter 2011 ends on Monday, November 29th. Registration includes access to: over 200 discussion groups 0ver 2000 committee meetings and events Exhibits Youth Media Awards much, much more! Complete information about the midwinter conference, to be held in San Diego from January 7th through 11th, is available here. See you in California! — posted by Mary R. Voors