All Sessions

Meeting of the CRS Access to Continuing Resources Interest Group

Meeting of the ALA Membership Promotion Task Force

Provides a forum for discussion and exchange of information among anthropology subject specialists and others interested in anthropology librarianship

Come and join us for the ACRL Balancing Books and Babies Discussion Group. This fun and informal group includes all types of librarians, moms, dads, new parents, and anyone else interested in how parenting and librarianship can be successfully intertwined. HR issues, daycare, tenure, and a variety of other topics will be discussed. Come and join us!

This is an open meeting for YALSA's Board of Directors.

Large aggregated packages of journals that publishers offer to libraries for hefty subscription fees, otherwise known as the Big Deal, have become commonplace in libraries. While they offer the advantage of purchasing large numbers of titles at a discount, librarians have become increasingly disenchanted with them because of their high cost and the inability to add or drop titles from the package. Pay per view subscription models offer an alternative that allows librarians to pay only for those articles that their users view. This program examines the pay per view model from the perspective of both the publisher and of librarians who have implemented it. The advantages and disadvantages of per view are discussed along with an exploration of where the pay per view model is headed and what its long term prospects might be.

Provides advice and recommendations regarding communications, publications and section documents for CODES.

Discussions focus on management issues pertaining to library systems and consortia. Previous topics included advocacy, funding, member services, and innovative projects.

Technical services, like any other department in a library, is faced with the need to increase efficiencies so that it can purchase and catalog material as fast as possible, in order to meet the needs of today’s users. Some technical services departments across the United States have embraced these efficiencies by implementing services such as: Patron Driven Acquisitions, Group wide License Negation, and Rapid Cataloging in order to meet the changing needs of the library. Please join us at the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Discussion Group as we discuss how these and other efficiencies have been implemented in Technical Service Departments around the United States.

Join Marie Radford and RUSA RSS past chair Joe Thompson to participate in a discussion about the dynamics of negotiating reference questions with Young Adults face-to-face and via various technologies. Open to all ALA attendees. We will also discuss the progress on planning a joint interest group between YALSA and RUSA RSS that will focus on Young Adult Reference Services. Sponsored by the RSS Marketing and Public Relations Committee.

MAES Discussion Group: Join us in conversation as we explore best practices in creating institutional infrastructure for effective and sustainable measurement, assessment and evaluation of library services.

Join us for the launch of the 2012 Diversity Research Grants program, sponsored by the ALA Office for Diversity, which addresses critical gaps in the knowledge of diversity issues within library and information science. Attendees will have the chance to discuss diversity research projects and celebrate the accomplishments of the 2011 Achievement in Library Diversity Research Honoree, Camila Alire.

Find out how VTLS users have used Drupal to extend both the Web OPAC (Chamo) and the Digital Asset Management software (VITAL) to provide more options for their community of users.

Hear the latest on information products and services from representatives of five U.S. Government scientific agencies.