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Join ALTAFF’s popular Nuts & Bolts program featuring Dr. Ron Heezen, director of the Shreveport Memorial Library, who will talk about embracing change as an organization to achieve goals. Round table discussions on topics of interest to Trustees, Friends, and Foundations will be facilitated by ALTAFF board members. Coffee will be served at 8:30 a.m. A box lunched is included. Save $25 off the combined registration cost of Nuts & Bolts and the Advocacy Institute.

A closed meeting to draft the outline of a white paper on the intersections of scholarly communications and information literacy.

The web is evolving from a global information space for storing individual documents into a highly diverse information network in which pieces of data interlink and work synergistically together to create meaning. Speakers will introduce the Semantic Web and the basics of linked data. Particular attention on library linked data will include a review of the state of the art and some practical experience in linking library data to the greater linked data cloud.

Target Audience: Librarians, developers of web applications, information architects, and others interested in the basic concept of the semantic web, linked data and how libraries can take a leadership role in creating linked data solutions.

The goal of the program is to empower participants to help accelerate the transformation of the scholarly communication system. Participants will engage in a structured interactive program that explores scholarly publishing, author rights and OA in practice. This institute is appropriate for those with administrative responsibilities, with new leadership assignments in scholarly communication or digital publishing, as well as liaisons and any others who are seeking to advance their professional development in scholarly communication.

Create a powerful school library program with tools based on AASL’s learning standards and program guidelines. Explore AASL’s A Planning Guide for Empowering Learners with the School Library Program Assessment Rubric and learn how to collect and use data to drive program improvement. Then learn how AASL’s Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action and Lesson Plan Database can take programs to the next level by building lessons cross-walked with the Common Core Standards.

THIS EVENT IS NOW A FREE, OFF-SITE WORKSHOP HOSTED BY PROQUEST. PLEASE CONTACT EVENT COORDINATOR MARY MANNIX FOR DETAILS.

In addition to covering basic skills for effective genealogy reference services, this workshop will feature expert speakers on local and specialized resources that help answer the more challenging research questions. Librarians from public, academic and all other types of libraries interested in learning how to use genealogy-related resources more effectively will benefit from this session. Speakers include Lloyd Brockstruck, who will address collection development during hard economic times; Sue Kaufman, who will focus on the Clayton collection of early Spanish documentation; and a third presenter, who will discuss Native American records. Lunch is sponsored by ProQuest.

An unconference is a participant-guided experience that harnesses the unstructured conversations people usually have between conference sessions into the conference itself. Unlike most conferences where talking heads and group leaders decide what is important, unconferences are organized by the crowd. Unconferences are about sharing the knowledge and passion we have for our profession and taking what we learn into the world to make a difference. Everyone has something to share. Everyone has something to learn. We can all change the world.

The BCALA executive board meeting is a planning meeting for the officers, committee chairs, and board members for the BCALA, Inc.

National Center for Education Statistics/ Academic Library Survey Advisory Committee meeting

OITP Advisory committee will hold its annual retreat at Midwinter.

Invitational meeting of consortia and libraries involved in shared print programs, hosted by Center for Research Libraries.

This preconference will provide a thorough introduction to the Drupal content management system. Presenter will guide attendees as they create Drupal sites in a sandbox environment, covering the basics of content creation, themes, modules, and user management. Demonstrations of innovative Drupal sites, including library sites, library intranets, and an electronic journal will be provided. Previous web experience is helpful, but not required. Participants should plan to bring a laptop.

This is an open committee meeting where the final list of Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults is determined.

"Big Heads" discusses important issues relating to technical services in large research libraries

The Chapter Leaders Forum, presented by the ALA Chapter Relations Committee at each ALA Midwinter and Annual, provides a great opportunity for Chapter Leaders (especially incoming leaders) to meet and discuss a full agenda on topics to help prepare them to lead an association. Topics have included Membership Development and Retention, New Revenue Ideas, Social Media, and Advocacy. This event requires advance registration and includes lunch. No on-site registration.

This is a meeting for YALSA's Executive committee.

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury will decide the 2012 winners.