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College & University Libraries Division |
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CULD provides strong professional networks at the local and regional level to confront challenges including, but not limited to, the rising cost of online databases and print materials and the promotion of technology literacy. CULD supports leadership opportunities for academic librarians by contributing an annual donation to financially assist TLA members participating in the TALL Texans Leaders Development Institute with their travel expenses. The CULD legislative committee lobbies to identify areas where TLA legislative efforts can further interests of Texas academic librarians and libraries, and recently it has worked to expand state support for online resources. The CULD scholarship committee awards a yearly academic scholarship to a qualified individual who is enrolled as a graduate student at a Texas ALA-accredited library education program and plans to focus on a career as an academic librarian in a college or university setting. The CULD Community and Junior College Discussion Group meets at annual conference, elects their own slate of officers to lead the group, and participates in programs tailored to community and junior college services. CULD annual conference programs have been very successful. CULD partnered a 2007 pre-conference with the Digital Libraries Interest Group, Automation and Technology Round Table, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to provide conference programming on a current topic of interest “Establishing an Institutional Repository: A LITA Regional Institute.” To learn more about CULD, visit our webpage at http://www.txla.org/groups/culd/index.html, contact Linda Bixler, CULD Chair, at lbixler@mail.twu.edu or Kim Wiley, Information and Membership Committee, at kim.wiley@lamar.edu. We hope you will join us! By Kim Wiley, CULD Information and Membership Committee Chair
TLA/NMRT Professional Development Grant This professional development grant is sponsored by Quality Books Inc. and the TLA New Members Round Table Endowment Fund. The grant provides assistance to attend the annual TLA Conference by covering conference registration, travel expenses, lodging, and $50 per diem, up to $1000 total expenses. Eligible recipients include those Texas Library Association members in the first 5 years of their professional career, currently working in a library setting, and in the first 5 years of TLA membership. Applications must be submitted on or before January 4, 2008. The application form and grant guidelines are available on the NMRT website (http://www.txla.org/groups/nmrt). The application and all attachments may be submitted by mail or email to Kelly Brouillard, TLA/NMRT/Quality Books Grant Committee Chair, TWU Blagg-Huey Library, PO Box 425528 Denton, Texas 76204 or at kbrouillard@mail.twu.edu. Applications may also be completed online at the NMRT website.
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Kelly Brouillard,
NMRT Quality Books Grant Committee Chair News from District 7 - Fall Meeting Officers elected at the September 29,2007 meeting at Texas Woman's University are:
By Stephany R. Compton, Chair, District 7 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 Dallas. The Outstanding New Librarian Award comes with paid registration to the upcoming Annual Conference in Dallas and paid membership for 2009. To apply or nominate a candidate, please fill out the form at http://www.txla.org/groups/forms/NMRTaform.html by February 18, 2008. Please contact John Asbell (jasbell@utpa.edu) if you have any questions.
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John Asbell, Chair, NMRT Outstanding New
Librarian Award Committee News from San Antonio Jan Kemp has joined the University of Texas at San Antonio Library as Assistant Dean for Public Services. Formerly at Lamar University in Beaumont, Jan has also worked at North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University.
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Stefanie Wittenbach ALA Legislative Day 2007 We would like to thank the membership of CULD for the financial support received for our attendance at ALA Legislative Day (May 1-2, 2007) as your representatives. About a dozen Texas librarians attended. Each of us was able to participate in 4-6 legislative visits. Members of Congress and their aides always appreciate visits from constituents and visitors from their area of the state. ALA always has a broad range of issues for us to discuss with congressmen and congressional staff. This year, issues included appropriations, telecommunications and the Internet, copyright, open government, access to government information, and privacy issues.
To the left is a picture of Joe and Molly visiting with Jennifer Bailey, the office manager in Congressman Ron Paul’s Washington office.
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Joe Dahlstrom (dahlstromj@uhv.edu)
and Molly Dahlstrom (mdahlstr@austincc.edu) Newsletter Editor: Lea Worcester |
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