All Sessions

Review budget and plan for the next fiscal year.

The Executive Board is the governing body of Beta Phi Mu. It is empowered to set policy, authorize and dissolve chapters upon petition, review and adopt the annual budget, authorize expenditures for specific activities not included in the annual budget, provide leadership to the chapters through liaison with the Assembly and by providing chapters with handbooks for guidance, respond to recommendations from the Assembly, authorize seminars and other programs or training, carry out the requirements of these Bylaws, and initiate other activities to carry out the purposes of Beta Phi Mu.

Closed meeting.

Selection committee meeting.

Looking for innovative ways to refresh or enhance teen services that you are already providing? Then join YALSA for a half day preconference and get tips on how to: revamp your homework help services using NYPL's Homework Help app; create inviting, purposeful Teen Spaces on a budget; incorporate essential digital literacy skills into programs; provide creative Reader's Advisory using QR codes; use outcome-based evaluations to assess retention and program effectiveness; and harness the power of youth participation.

Advisory Committee Meeting for the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study

Learn how to engage and mobilize friends and trustees groups, opinion-makers and civic organizations to support your public, school and academic libraries.

Presenters include: Dr. Jennifer Martin, Ph.D., senior associate provost and dean of the Graduate School, Texas Woman's University; Ed Palmer, chairman, Municipal Library Board, Dallas, and Rocco Staino, retired director of the Mary I. Keefe Library, North Salem Central Schools, NY & contributing editor, School Library Journal.

Register for Nuts & Bolts for Trustees, Friends and Foundations (Event code: ALT1) from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday morning and receive a discount on combined registration.

Mobilizing Community Support for Your Library: An Advocacy Institute Workshop is sponsored by the Texas Library Association. It is presented in partnership with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), ALTAFF, and organized by the Advocacy Training Subcommittee of the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy, in conjunction with the ALA Office for Library Advocacy.

ALCTS Board meets to discuss issues related to the Division

OTitle: OCLC Americas Regional Council Annual Member Meeting and Symposium
Open to all! Join your OCLC member colleagues for a fast-paced, informative afternoon. We'll start with a light lunch at noon. After a brief welcome from ARC Chair William Maes, you'll hear a dynamic keynote presentation from author and TechCrunch Senior Editor Sarah Lacy, who will speak on "Mining the Fault Lines: Big Collaboration on a Richter Web Scale," with Q&A to follow. William Maes will also give a membership update, followed by roundtable discussions. Then, OCLC senior managers will share membership survey results and present on the Cost Sharing Models Task Force’s recommendations. The afternoon concludes with a social reception with the OCLC Board of Trustees, OCLC senior managers and Americas Regional Council Ambassadors.

An interactive gathering for sharing and discussing a variety of topics related to the field of library assessment.

This important meeting focuses on the need for an up-to-date educational preparation of catalogers and other metadata specialists, so that the educational system will continue to produce professional librarians whose skill sets match the needs of the marketplace that they will be entering.

Joint meeting of COL and Leg Assembly

The PLA Leadership Task Force meets to conduct committee business.

Business meeting of the officers of GODORT, the Government Documents Round Table.