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College & University Libraries Division |
Fall 2006 |
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Your CULD officers have been working to finalize programs for the TLA Conference in San Antonio that is scheduled for April 11-14, 2007. Of course, 2007 is the every-other-year that CULD has competition from the ACRL national conference, which is scheduled for March 29-April 1 in Baltimore, Maryland. As academic librarians few of us can afford to attend both conferences. I can assure you that if you decide to attend the TLA conference, and I hope you do, you will not be disappointed. We have a really terrific set of programs as you will see from the Conference Preview. This is a very busy time for the TLA legislative committee, as the 80th Texas Legislature convenes on January 9, 2007. I urge you to consider joining other Texas librarians in the TLA Legislative Day as we always need more academic librarians participating in this event. It is scheduled for February 5-6, 2007 with a briefing session on the evening of the 5th and a day at the Capitol on the 6th. If you can fit it into your schedule, I highly recommend it as a very rewarding experience. You can keep up with library-related legislative issues by signing up for Texline to receive regular email updates. Just send an email to gloriam@txla.org and ask to be added to the list.
2007 TLA
Conference Preview April 11-12, 2007 - San Antonio
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Serving the Distance Learning Population: Where to Start
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Serving the Distance Learning Population: Expanding the Basics A pre-conference in two parts; attendees may sign up for one or both parts. Part One: Learn the basics on how to serve the distance learners of your institution to ensure that students develop academic research skills. Explore available tools for providing services. Learn how to design a service program based on identified needs.
Part Two: You know the basics. Now learn how to develop strategies to market the library services to distant users. Explore how to produce user-centered, web-based tools to support course requirements. Create your strategic plan to meet the needs of Distance Learning students.
2:00 pm – 3:50 pm CULD Executive Board Meeting
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:15 am – 11:50 am Learning is a Game; Play to Win! Develop an understanding of how computer-based games are "playing" in library instruction. Teaching the millennial student is different from teaching baby boomers. Hear information on learning styles and their relationship to the virtual world of educational gaming. Seminal video games will be identified as examples of gaming categories. Tina Buck, Instructional Specialist, Austin Community College Cynthia Yates, Multimedia Developer, Austin Community College
Friday, April 13, 2007 8:00 am – 9:50 am CULD Community and Junior College Discussion Group Business Meeting Fran Cotton, Director of Library Services, South Plains College presiding
10:00 am – 11:20 am Geeks Bearing Gifts: Unwrapping New Technology Trends A fun, fast-paced and informative introduction to today's hottest technology trends. Learn how to identify technology trends and how they will impact or can be integrated into traditional library services. Demonstrations of a wide variety of technologies including instant messaging, podcasting, open source software, blogs, and wikis will be shown. A speaker from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (NN/LM SCR) will present this program.
2 pm – 3:50 pm Assessment, Outcomes, and ACRL Standards: Helping Academic Libraries Prepare for SACS How do you decide what to assess or measure in your academic librry that will help you with strategic planning and to meet accreditation standards? Explore ways to use the ACRL Standards to guide your planning and to determine how to assess programs within the library and measure outcomes. Robert Fernekes, Georgia Southern University
10:00 am – 11:50 am Applying the Power of Personal Persuasion to Texas Academic Libraries: Marketing Your Library to Your Institution and to Your Community Academic libraries are marketing, reassessing, re-branding, and re-marketing their environment into 21st teaching and learning centers. This program introduces techniques and strategies for all levels of professionals to use in advocating for the library’s mission in the academic library community. Attendees will receive a copy of ACRL’s new toolkit on personal persuasion. Dr. Julie Todaro, Dean of Library Services, Austin Community College NOTE: the CULD Membership Meeting follows Dr. Todaro’s presentation.
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Cary Sowell
And the nominations for Outstanding New Librarian are … help us complete this sentence, please! The New Members Round Table of TLA is honoring a librarian who is new to the profession by seeking nominations for the Outstanding New Librarian Award. The nominee must be a member of NMRT/TLA and must be employed full time as a professional librarian. Any person in the library profession who is familiar with the nominee’s education, experience, and professional activities and affiliations may nominate them. A committee of NMRT members will consider all nominations. The Outstanding New Librarian Award will be presented at the annual Texas Library Association Conference in San Antonio. The Outstanding New Librarian Award comes with paid registration to the upcoming Annual Conference in San Antonio and paid membership for 2008. To apply or nominate a candidate, please fill out the form at http://www.txla.org/groups/forms/NMRTaform.html by February 17, 2007. Please contact John Asbell (jasbell@utpa.edu) if you have any questions. By John Asbell National Library Legislative Day (By a first time participant)
This year’s 32nd Annual National Library Legislative Day, May 2, 2006, was sponsored by the District of Columbus Library Association, the Special Library Association and the American Library Association. This year over 525 participants from 47 states came to Washington D.C. to speak with their members of Congress about the needs of libraries in the areas of funding, telecommunications, copyright and government information. ALA provides a full day of briefing for library delegates to inform and prepare the participants for the congressional visits which are scheduled for the next day, the official Legislative Day. The Texas delegation uses both the ALA briefing day and the second day to meet with Texas Senators and Congressmen. The Texas delegation traditionally meets the night before the ALA briefing day to review the packets of information which are provided by ALA for distribution to the legislators. Members of the 2006 Texas delegation this year included Gloria Meraz from the TLA Office, two representatives from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (Peggy Rudd and Deborah Littrell), five public librarians (Rhoda Goldberg, TLA Legislative Committee Chair from Harris County Public Library, Carol Brey-Casiano from El Paso Public Library, Steve Brown from North Richland Hills Public Library, Dale Fleeger from Weatherford Public Library, and Ruben Rendon from Harlingen Public Library), one school librarian (Ty Burns from Clear Creek ISD), one librarian from a consortium (Robert Gillette from the Abilene Library Consortium), one layperson (Patrick Heath, Mayor, City of Boerne) and me, representing academic libraries. During this session, major issues, pending legislation, and talking points were reviewed and listed in order of importance. The Chair of the TLA Legislative Committee also provided everyone with the schedule of appointments with the team assignments. The delegates each were assigned between three and five appointments, with team membership rotating according to when and where the appointments were located. Each team had a “lead” who introduced the delegation, and initiated the discussion as the other two members of the team spoke to the issues, helped to answer questions, and offered specific library examples.
On Monday, May 1, the ALA briefing day, I was assigned to meet with three congressmen. We had agreed that each team would meet in the hallway near the appointment office, about fifteen minutes before each appointment to agree who would address each issue and to share information from the other appointments. Monday morning my first appointment was at 10:30 in the Rayburn Building. I was able to attend the luncheon for the Association of College and Research Libraries members, which was held at our hotel, Holiday Inn on the Hill. Most of the delegates at my lunch table were from Illinois, which sent a delegation of almost ninety librarians. Because my second appointment was at 2:00, I had to leave in the middle of a presentation by Rodney J. Pedersen, Policy Analyst and Security Task Force Coordinator at EDUCAUSE. The hotel was on the north side of Capitol Hill, about three quarters of a mile from the House office buildings. The offices of the representatives are located in one of three large office buildings to the south of Capitol Hill. These impressive granite buildings are connected by an underground “tunnel” system – actually an underground maze of well-lit hallways. However, going from one office in the Rayburn Building to an office in the Cannon building cannot be done in less than fifteen minutes due to the distance and the elevator speeds. My third appointment, scheduled for 2:30, was located too far from my second appointment for me to attend. When I returned to the hotel I was able to sit in one of the ALA briefing sessions on the Patriot Act. This discussion with delegates from all over the United States was conducted by Carrie Russell, Copyright Specialist from ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy.
On Tuesday, May 2, I had been given two appointments, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Four of us met in the tunnel system in the cafeteria under the Longworth Building for lunch between these meetings. Tourists, visitors like us, and congressional staff all ate together in this very loud lunchroom located near the House of Representatives Gift Shop. Besides this very strange lunch environment, I was very impressed by the large statue of Sam Rayburn in the building that bears his name. These office buildings have very hard floors and no place to sit in the massive hallways. Each doorway to a congressman’s office was uniquely decorated, some with flags and others with state seals. The reception areas within the offices are large enough for one or two people to stand or sit, and the staffers all appeared to be newly minted from a university somewhere. Two of my meetings were with staffers and two were with the representatives, themselves. All of the meetings were about thirty minutes long, and those we met with seemed very interested in our issues, taking lots of notes.
A reception, sponsored by the Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA), is held at the end of Legislative Day to honor a Member of Congress who has supported libraries. This year, the reception was in the Rayburn Building, and Sen. Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Craig (R-ID) were presented with awards for their commitment to libraries. The ALA Washington Office also recognized Major Owens (D- 11th NY), a librarian, for his dedication to libraries. This reception was also good chance to meet and to talk with other librarians and hear about their experiences with their Congressmen.
I valued this opportunity to visit Washington and to have the experience of walking the House office buildings, and I urge CULD to continue to support National Library Legislative Day as an opportunity for us to continue to learn about the legislative process as well as an opportunity to carry the academic library message directly to our elected officials.
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Karen Hopkins, Member, CULD Legislative Committee, and
Library of Congress Classification System Conversion Completed by Weatherford College Weatherford College completed the Dewey to LC Conversion labeling and physical re-shelving of the materials this summer. Approximately 12,000 items remain with Dewey numbers that will be reclassified as time allows. The library staff became partially familiar with the LC classification system while doing this process. Any college planning to convert to LC would benefit from this recent experience and Weatherford College will readily share. Kilgore Library, Wharton Co. Library, and Henderson State Library directors were supportive of Weatherford in the planning process. Weatherford College Library hosted a reception October 9, 2006 to celebrate the change from Dewey to LC. By Martha Tandy District 7 Meeting Report North Texas Regional Library System
November 4, 2006 at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
The district meeting included the following presentations: Online Teaching Resources from the Amon Carter Museum and Cultural District Library Consortium Kathrine Moloney of Amon Carter
The Intergenerational Workplace Greg Anderson of the North Texas Municipal Alliance
Marketing Your Library Kerry McGeath of Southlake Public Library
Library 2.0 Christine Peterson of Amigos The meeting concluded with an After-Party and Kickoff for The Men of Texas Libraries Calendar At the University of North Texas Health Science Center Library.
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