Libraries: Linking Technology and Tradition. By now you should have received your preliminary conference program for the 1996 TLA Annual Conference, to be held in Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center, April 23-26. In just a few weeks thousands of TLA members, non-members, and exhibitors will gather for the biggest conference in TLA history! Seven hundred (700) exhibit booths and 300 meetings guarantee to keep attendees busy and well-informed. Plan to attend the TLA Conference and experience the link between technology and tradition.
The Texas Library Association's conference will include a silent auction benefitting the TALL Texans Leadership Development Institute. Listed below are just a few of the items to be auctioned:
On Wednesday, April 24, the silent auction will be held at the back of Exhibit Hall C in the Convention Center and will be staffed by volunteers eager to help you from 9:00 - 4:00 p.m. After the Exhibit Hall closes on Wednesday afternoon, the auction items will be moved to Houston's elegant Wortham Theatre Center where bidding will continue throughout the President's Reception. At 9:30 p.m., the bidding will conclude, and the lucky winners will be announced.
For more information about the auction, please contact Donna Joy Burke, Silent Auction Chair; 713/645-5856.
The latest revision of the Intellectual Freedom Handbook is now available from the TLA Office for $5 each, plus $2.50 for shipping and handling, by calling 1/800/580-2852. It is also published on TLA's website. The Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Texas Library Association expresses appreciation to SIRS, Inc. for their continued support in underwriting the cost of the printing of this new version.
The Library Instruction Round Table will celebrate its first year as a round table by hosting a library instruction poster session, A Potpourri of Instruction Ideas and Accomplishments: A Library Instruction Poster Session on Wednesday, April 24, from 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Come by any time to view presentations of successful instructional programs and ideas from school, community college, and university libraries, on such topics as using the World Wide Web in instruction, using multimedia and computer aided instruction effectively, and integrating library instruction into the curriculum. This is an excellent opportunity to see what others are doing, learn from the experience of others, and meet and visit with colleagues. There's a lot to see, so be sure to stop by!
The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) will hold their business meeting on Thursday, April 25, from 8:00 - 9:50 a.m. Following the business meeting, GODORT will host Election Year Education: How To Locate Legislative and Political Information from 10:00 - 11:50 a.m. During this presidential election year, library patrons will want the scoop on candidates and issues. Speakers Gay Carter, University of Houston-Clear Lake, and Rona Mertink, Texas Legislative Reference Library, will identify the best resources, organizations, publications, and services to answer their questions. Marcive, Inc. co-sponsors this event.
The GODORT CD-ROM Users Group, with co-sponsors Marcive, Inc. and the Texas State Library, will present Maps: The Next Generation on Thursday, April 25, 1996, from 2:00 - 3:50 p.m. Stephen W. Littrell, Head of Periodicals and Microforms and Maps Units at the University of Texas at Austin, will demonstrate and explore map resources available on the Internet. Attendees will find out what they need to know to go where no map librarian has gone before!
Would you like some hands-on, user-friendly information on the Internet, retro conversion, or demystifying MARC and other topics? This is your chance to visit the first ever TLA Net Fair, presented by the Automation and Technology Round Table on Wednesday, April 24. Microcomputer workstations with Internet access will be at each of the small table sessions. Select from one to four sessions and enjoy the camaraderie. The schedule is as follows:
Nancy Buchanan - Coordinator of Electronic Resources at the University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston: Designing World Wide Web Sites - Collecting and Arranging Information for Patron and Staff Use;
Zary Shafa - Associate Director of Technical Services, University of Dallas: What Does a Director of a Small Library Need to Know to Reduce Automation Anxiety?;
Ann Strommer - Coordinator, Automated Library Services, North Harris Montgomery Community College District: Ins and Outs, Ups and Downs of a Multitype, Multi-Site Consortium;
William J. Stuivenga - Reference and Electronic Resources Librarian, Southern Methodist University: Basic Internet Principles;
Betty Thompson - Library Computer Specialist, Taylor Public Library: Getting the Small Public Library "Hooked up" to the Internet and What Do You Do When You Get There?
Lou A. Caldwell - Assistant Director for Support Services, Houston Public Library: A Web Page For the Houston Public Library via Hypertext, from Scratch and How the Internet Will Help the Patron and Reference Librarian;
Jeanette Mosey - Head Librarian, Technical Services and Automation, Austin Community College: Understanding/Demystifying the MARC Format and Sources of MARC Data Other Than OCLC;
Mary Lynn Rice-Lively - Academic Assistant to the Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin: Making Sense Out of Electronic Non- sense;
Sandra Sharps - Library Technologist, Region 10 Education Service Center: Retrospective Conversion for Automating School Libraries and Centralized Processing for Decentralized School Libraries;
Carol Mann Simpson - Facilitator of Library Technology, Mesquite Independent School District: New Solutions to Censoring or Filtering the Internet.
The TLA Literacy Committee invites all conferees to attend a program on Thursday, April 25, at 10:00 a.m. featuring Margaret Doughty, of the Houston READ Commission. Doughty will speak on the multitude of literacy learning opportunities available in the community outside of the regular classroom. She will also present some unique, upbeat, and unusual `underground' initiatives to build learning success.
The following is the schedule for Contributed Papers Sessions I - VIII:
Join your old friends and meet new ones in the enchanted world of ancient Egypt! On Thursday, April 25, conference attendees will have the opportunity to experience an evening of good food, magic, and dancing at the unique, elegant, and mysterious Magic Island. Magic shows will begin in the Palace of Tutankhamen at 6:30 and will be repeated every forty minutes. Smaller, close-up magic shows are performed every fifteen minutes. King Tut's Gourmet Buffet will be offered throughout the evening. Continuous bus service will leave from Hall B of the convention center at 6:00 p.m. and will continue between conference hotels and Magic Island until 12:30 a.m. This means you can arrive at Magic Island at any time, enjoy a gourmet dinner in the Court of Nefertiti or Cleopatra's Chamber, cocktails in the Den of Osiris, a world-class magic show, close-up sleight of hand magic in the Gallery of Ramses or Cheop's Sanctum, and dancing in the Temple of Isis! The cost for this fantasy evening is only $42.00 (cash bar will be available with drinks priced at $3.50). Be sure to make your reservations on your conference pre- registration form.
Librarians in Texas lost a dear friend with the death of Laura Edwards on February 26, 1996. As a past librarian of Coppell High School involved in many state and national activities, Laura was a professional mentor and a friend to many librarians in Texas.
Laura graduated from Texas Woman's University in 1984 and later received her Administrator's Mid- Management Certification from the same institution. As Director/Librarian of the Secondary Media Center at Coppell High School from 1984-1993, Laura was instrumental in providing exemplary library services showcased many times throughout the state. Laura shared her love of young adult literature as an adjunct instructor at the University of North Texas.
Laura provided leadership to the library community at the local and state levels through her work in the Texas Library Association. In TLA she served as chair to both the Texas Association of School Librarians and the Children's Round Table, TASL Student Library Assistant Committee chair, as well as secretary-treasurer of TASL, and co-chair of the TLA Gala Fundraiser for the 1992 TLA Annual Conference.
Laura's national contributions included responsibilities in the American Library Association where she served on the Development of School Library Media Programs Committee of the American Association of School Librarians and also on the National School Library Media Monthly Committee. In 1990 Laura served on the Newbery Committee, a function of the Association of Library Services to Children. Her management skills and love of young adult literature were expressed through her published articles in The Book Report and the Texas Library Journal.
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion, 1994), has been chosen by the school children of Texas as recipient of the 1996 Texas Bluebonnet Award. Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story received 26,053 votes from students in grades 3-6. Ms. Hahn will be honored April 25 at the Texas Bluebonnet Award luncheon in Houston during the TLA Annual Conference.
More than 204,000 children from 1,648 schools participated in the Bluebonnet program by reading or hearing books from a master list of 20 books compiled by a committee of public and school librarians.
Runners-up for the 1996 Texas Bluebonnet Award are The Sweetest Fig, by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton- Mifflin, 1993), The Best School Year Ever, by Barbara Robinson (HarperCollins, 1994), and Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave by Marianna Mayer (Morrow, 1994).
Co-sponsors of the annual reading incentive program are the Children's Round Table and the Texas Association of School Librarians, both units of the Texas Library Association. The Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee recently released the 1996-97 master reading list. Statewide voting for the new list will take place in January, 1997.
The Texas Bluebonnet Award Committee currently is gathering suggestions of books to consider for the 1997- 98 TBA master reading list. August 15 is the closing date for nominating books. The 1997-98 list will be selected in November.
Eight points to keep in mind when nominating a book for consideration are: 1) the nominator of the book must have read the book; 2) the reading level of the book should be suitable for grades 3-6; 3) copyright date must be 1994, 1995, or 1996; 4) the book must have been published in the U.S. and must have been written by a U.S. citizen who is still alive; 5) the book must have received a favorable review in a reviewing source; 6) the book must have literary merit; 7) the content of the book must be appropriate; and 8) the book must not be a textbook, an abridgment, or a new edition or reissue of an existing title.
Librarians, teachers, students, parents, or other interested persons are encouraged to suggest books by sending author, title, publisher, and date of copyright information to TBA Coordinator Annette F. Nall, 2011 Third Avenue, Canyon, TX 79015.
The Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) Committee has announced that Mr. Tucket, by Gary Paulsen, no longer appears on the 1996-97 master list. Following an inquiry from the TBA Committee, an official of Bantam Doubleday Dell (Delacorte) wrote: "After reviewing the criteria for selection to the Texas Bluebonnet Award list, we have determined that Mr. Tucket is a `new edition of [an] existing title' and is therefore ineligible for award consideration. We at Bantam Doubleday Dell want to uphold the integrity of the award and agree that removing the book from the list is the correct decision."
The Texas Library Association Leadership Development
Committee announced the selection of the third class of
TALL Texans. Twenty-four participants have been
named to attend a course of intensive concentration on
leadership processes at Harambe Oaks Ranch, June 17-
21. The facilitators for the Institute will be Maureen
Sullivan and Jack Siggins, nationally recognized
presenters in the area of leadership development.
The selected participants for the 1996 TALL Texans are:
Many thanks to all those who have contributed to the LEAF campaign:
Gerri McBride, SIRS, Inc. - Area of greatest need
Gerri McBride, SIRS, Inc. - Scholarship & Research Fund
Gerri McBride, SIRS, Inc. - Whitten Fund
Coin Copiers, Inc. - Area of greatest need
Elizabeth Crabb - Area of greatest need
Barbara A. B. Gubbin - Hetherington Leadership Development Fund
Barbara A. B. Gubbin - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Izoro Daphane Kerley - Hetherington Leadership Development
Fund
Izoro Daphane Kerley - Scholarship & Research Fund
Reginald Knowles - Hetherington Leadership Development Fund
S. Joe McCord - Area of greatest need
Patricia H. Smith - Legislative Reserve Fund
Patricia H. Smith - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Ellen M. Boothe - Wayne Williams Fund
Ellen M. Boothe - Whitten Fund
Judy Brough - Area of greatest need
Sue Compton - Area of greatest need
Gloria Gray - Area of greatest need; In honor of Margaret Irby
Nichols
A.B. & Vera Haynes - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Elizabeth Haynes - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Barbara Immroth - Whitten Fund
Betty Yarbrough - Wayne Williams Fund
June Kahler Berry - Hetherington Leadership Development Fund
Dorothy Clark - Wayne Williams Fund; In honor of Mrs. Louie Reifel
Louis Covington - Area of greatest need
Kathryn Davis - Area of greatest need
Diantha Dawkins - Whitten Fund
Frances M. de Cordova - Area of greatest need
Virginia Devenport - Area of greatest need
Nancy Eskridge - Area of greatest need
Saranne Gans - Area of greatest need
Jim Geiger, Geiger & Associates - Area of greatest need
Jim Geiger, Geiger & Associates - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Dennis Gibbons - Area of greatest need
Lee Graham - Whitten Fund; In honor of the Whitten Family
Karen Harrell - Area of greatest need
Bobbie Henderson - Area of greatest need
David Henington - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Roberta L. Janeway - Area of greatest need
Clare Karabasz - Legislative Reserve Fund
Doris Ann King - Wayne Williams Fund
Sue King - Wayne Williams Fund
Sue Gale Mock Kooken - Area of greatest need
Jeanette Larson - Wayne Williams Fund
Suzan Nyfeler - Whitten Fund; In memory of Sam Whitten
Janelle A. Paris - Scholarship & Research Fund
Anne Ramos - Area of greatest need
Susan A. Rhoads - Whitten Fund
Mary Roderick - Whitten Fund; In memory of Bill Rafferty
Elmer G. Sackman - Area of greatest need
Maury, Tiana, Larisa (Keltner) Shiver - Area of greatest need; In memory of Rosemary Chapman
Belinda Stanley - Area of greatest need
William Stewart - Area of greatest need
Judy Templeton - Area of greatest need
Audrey Vanderhoof - Area of greatest need
Theresa Walter - Area of greatest need
Jerilynn Williams - Christina Woll Memorial Fund
Margaret Woytek - Area of greatest need
Contributions may be sent to the TLA Office at any time throughout the year.
The TLA Executive Board met in Austin on December 3-4, 1995. Actions taken during this meeting were the following:
Minutes of TLA Executive Board meetings are available upon request from the TLA Office.
The First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative is a program of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and is being offered under the auspices of the First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush. These grants, of up to $15,000 each, will be awarded to applicants who will focus on teaching reading to both adults/caregivers and their young children. Priority will be given to activities and projects which involve a public school or school district; emphasize working with families and students who are economically disadvantaged; use assessment instruments to assess reading skills both in the early grades (pre-K - 3) and also of parents/caregivers; require the achievement of set goals and objectives; and can demonstrate the greatest effort in generating matching funds and other local support.
In order to be eligible, an organization must meet the following criteria:
Completed applications must be received by Wednesday, May 15, 1996, with grant projects to start between August 15, 1996, and September 15, 1997. The project should not exceed one year in duration. To request copies of the Grant Application or for more information, contact the First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative for Texas at 713/951-7752.
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission will meet on Friday, April 26, 1996, from 10:00 - 11:50 a.m. at the George R. Brown Convention Center. A few of the agenda items include: Internet Assistance Grants Rules; Rules for Print Access Aids; and Microfilming Rules.
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