Vermont librarians Helen Linda, Debbie Gadwah-Lambert, and Nancy Wilson are blogging at NELA! Our posts and lots of others can be found at http://nelib.wordpress.com/
Category Archives: NELA Representative
NELA Plans Non-perishable Food Drive in Manchester, NH
NELA Executive Board and NELA Conference Committee 2008 are planning a non-perishable food drive to benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank in Manchester, but we can’t do it without your help.
While you are preparing to pack for the Annual Conference, please consider setting aside some room in your suitcase for one or two non-perishable food items.
Call for Proposals – ACRL/NEC Annual Conference 2009
Association of College and Research Libraries – New England Chapter
Annual Conference 2009
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
May 15, 2009
ACRL/NEC invites you to submit proposals for a workshop, presentation, or poster session at its 2009 conference:
“Are You Being Served? Customer satisfaction and library service.â€
We are construing “customer service†broadly and seek proposals covering any and all aspects of librarianship as they relate to
serving and satisfying our customers. In writing proposals, here are some questions to consider: Who are our customers? What do they want/need? What can we, and what can’t we, provide? How can we do better, what else can we do, what can we stop doing? Is the customer always right? Do we provide what our customers want or what (we think) they need? Can we do both? Can we go too far in trying to please our customers?
Library Journal Design Institute East – Going Green
Library Journal Design Institute East – Going Green is Co-sponsored by the Connecticut State Library and Connecticut Library Consortium
The fourth Library Journal Design Institute moves to Connecticut for a one-day think tank on green design. We will bring together leading architects, designers, librarians, and vendors to hone in on the challenges and solutions we face in making libraries sustainable. As previous Green Design institutes have shown, there is much more to sustainability than making our libraries green. With every Green Design Institute, we’ve taken a leap forward in knowledge and understanding, but there is so much more we can learn from these experts and each other. Join us for a day-long series of green-themed presentations, panels, and breakout sessions, and learn the latest developments, options, costs and strategies being adopted.
We’ll also reprise one of the most successful features of the day: hands-on breakout sessions with architects. Each librarian attendee will have a chance to have their design challenge be the focus of one of the six architect-led breakout sessions. The design challenges do not have to focus solely on going green, but the breakout session will incorporate green solutions into the design.
Limited to 100 attendees, the seminar is for those considering a new building project or renovation, in the fundraising or pre-bond stage, or in the early building process.
NELA Carpooling Opportunities Still Available
Hi All,
There are still folks with spots in their cars headed to NELA this weekend. If you would like to carpool to NELA, please consider signing up for the VLA Travel Wiki. This tool uses PBWiki and signing up for an account takes seconds if you haven’t done so before, plus there are great tutorials on how to use a wiki courtesy of the Vermont 23 Things section on Wikis. You can request access either by clicking through to the Wiki and requesting there, or you can reply to this email with your name and your preferred email address. It only takes a couple of seconds to sign up and would be a great way to save money and meet new people. If you have an event you think people would like to carpool to, please feel free to add it and encourage folks to join up. I am, of course, happy to help anyone who needs it by adding their information or events to the wiki and answering questions, especially if you feel you need a little time to get accustomed to it.
See you there!
Helen
Going to NELA? Chapter leaders want to hear from you!
College & University Librarians, ACRL-NEC wants to hear from you!
Let us know how your professional association can work for you. Â What are we doing that works and what could we do better?
Vice President Barbara Kenney and I will be holding informal focus groups at the NELA (New England Library Association) Annual Conference in Manchester, NH on October 19, 20, and 21. We’re especially interested in hearing from folks in northern New England. A few minutes of your time during one of these sessions is all that’s needed. Please join us.
NELA is looking for conference bloggers
NELA is looking for novice and experienced bloggers to help out at the NELA Conference on October 19-21.
Once again, Plymouth Rocket, Inc. – http://www.plymouthrocket.com/ – is pleased to sponsor the conference blog and free Internet access for the bloggers.
“Taking Charge of Changeâ€, the 2008 Annual NELA Conference, will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH.
For more information, visit the NELA Web site at www.nelib.org.
NELA Conference — Plan to Attend
Don’t Miss Out on Discount Rates for NELA 2008!
NELA is accepting Early Registration for “Taking Charge of Changeâ€, the 2008 Annual NELA Conference being held from October 19 to 21, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH.
If your registration is postmarked by October 10, you can receive a 25-30%!
Here are a few of the highlights:
- Adult Programming Showcase
- Drop-In Resume Review
- Easy Web Fixes
- “Graphic†Nonfiction
- Help! The Teen Librarian Has Left the Building
- Hot Topics in Technical Services
- Leading by Example: Toward More Sustainable Communities
- My College Freshman Is Your High School Senior
- Sophisticated Picture Books
- The Vanishing Male: Guy Stuff That Lures and Hooks
- Special Guest Authors: Simon Winchester, Cynthia Lord, and Michael Palmer
- Special Guest Storytellers: Eshu and Motoko and Raouf Mama
Join your colleagues for all this plus award winners, discussion leaders, gamers, social hours, luncheons, exhibits, exhibits, and more exhibits!
Register by mail or online at www.nelib.org
MLA-Tech Services Section Program: Introduction to Library Digitization (open to anyone)
Massachusetts Library Association Technical Services Section proudly presents “Introduction to Library Digitizationâ€, a one day program on Tuesday October 28th, 2008, at the Worcester Public Library (open to non-MLA members). This program will cover what libraries need to consider before starting a digitization project. The speakers will be Massachusetts librarians who have successfully implemented digitization projects at their libraries.Â
New England Library Association Annual Conference
Just wanted to remind everyone that the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference is coming up. This years theme is “Taking Charge of Change” and the programs look terrific. The conference is being held October 19-21 in Manchester, NH at the Raddison Hotel and Conference Center.
I’ve created a wiki for people to coordinate carpooling/roommates for events, this one being the first one. It’s called the VLA Travel Wiki and it is hosted at PBwiki. For everyone’s privacy, I have made the wiki for the VLA membership by invitation only. Please email me (celestihel[at]gmail.com) if you are interested in trying/checking it out and I’ll shoot you an invite just as quick as I can.
If wiki’s are new to you and you want to check them out generally before you try out the travel wiki, try popping over to the Vermont 23 Things site. Thing 17 and Thing 18 are about wikis and include some helpful tutorials, tips, and a sandbox to play around with, and there is a good deal of information about PBwiki specifically.
Helen Linda