ASSOCIATES (vol. 3, no. 1, July 1996) - associates.ucr.edu
*CALENDAR OF EVENTS*
CONFERENCES
UNITED STATES
Alaska
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August 14-17, 1996
Fairbanks, Alaska
“Information Highways: The Northwest Passage of Libraries”.
Keynote address will be presented by Dr. Charles McClure, School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.
For more information contact:
June Pinnell-Stephens
Phone: 907-459-1020
Email: junep@muskox.alaska.edu
California
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September 24, 1996
Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center San Diego, CA
Fourth Annual Greater San Diego Paraprofessional Development Workshop
The theme for the conference is: “Libraries: Issues and Challenges of Today.” City librarian, William Sannwald, will be the main speaker. He will speak on the progress of our soon to be built city library.
Other sessions and speakers will be included in the days program.
For more information contact:
Bessie Mayes
Catalog Technician II
Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center,
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Division
San Diego, CA
Email: mayes@nosc.mil
Colorado
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August 15-18, 1996
Auraria Campus
Denver, CO
Metro Area Papapros/CLA/CEMA Conference
Metro Area Parapros joins CLA/CEMA in MAKING HISTORY!
The Making History! Conference will be held at the Auraria Campus centrally located in downtown Denver. CLA/CEMA have put together a fun-filled educational program including such speakers as: Dr. Chile Chavez of Littleton Public Schools, Leonard Kniffel, editor of American Libraries and a Colorado favorite, Pat Wagner of Pattern Research. This conference hosts a variety of authors presenting workshops and book signings. The days are filled from 9-4:30 with numerous workshops and activities to choose from-- it is the conference that is Making History!
Paraprofessionals (library assistants, technicians, clerks, etc.) should register as Metro Area Parapros to receive the substantial discounted rate of $35/early registration or $45 after 7/15. The registration fee is Full Conference Registration. Metro Area Parapros requires no membership or dues. Just register for the conference as a Metro Area Parapro and save!
For a Registration form or Questions --- Call: Mary Anne at 303-777-9122
or Roger at 303-642-0203
Iowa
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September 11, 1996
Starlite Village
Ames, IA
Strengthening Libraries Through Support Personnel III
A full day of programming will be sponsored by the Support Personnel Forum of the Iowa Library Association. Programs include, “Library Support Staff: New Demands, New Dimensions”, presented by Sarah Louise Mort, Circulation Head at the University of Northern Iowa’s Donald O. Rod Library. Sharman Smith, Iowa State Librarian, will present “Iowa Libraries: What’s Happening”. The two afternoon sessions will be “Wearing of the Hats: the challenges of working in the small library” presented by Emily Navarre, Administrator of Southeastern Library Services, and “How to Survive Your Library’s Changes” an interactive session addressing the dynamics of change and ways to help ourselves.
Registration fee (includes lunch) is $20. Deadline for registration is September 1, 1996.
For registration and more information contact:
Nancy Medema
Bettendorf Public Library
PO Box 1326
Bettendorf, IA 52722
Kansas
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November 7-8, 1996
Holiday Inn
Great Bend, Kansas
Kansas Library Operation Associates (KLOA) 4th Annual Conference
For information contact:
Linda Gutierrez
Email: zzguti@acc.wuacc.edu
Louisiana
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September 27, 1996
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Support Staff Association of Libraries.
LaSSAL Statewide Conference
Theme: Your Options, Your Future
Keynote Speaker: Kendall Simmons, Editor, ASSOCIATES
Registration: $15.50
Conference Hotel: Quality Inn Midtown
Contact:
Catherine McCormack
Phone: 504-399-2911
Fax: 504-388-6002
Minnesota
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August 12-13, 1996
Alexandria Technical College
Alexandria, MN
Branch Out 1996 - the 5th annual conference designed by and for library support staff and paraprofessionals.
“Rooted in our past, reaching for our future”
Monday, August 12, Alexandria Technical College: features programming on the Internet, preservation, MOTSE (Minnesota Opportunities for Technical Service), and MORE (MN Opportunities for Reference).
Tuesday, August 13, Holiday Inn Alexandria: features conference keynoter, Sarah Ann Long “Seven Habits of Highly Effective Library Assistants.” Sarah was a keynoter at this Spring’s COLT conference; also sessions on effective meetings, genealogy, copyright, student workers, fundraising, rural library issues, consensus building, certification and more…
Special conference lodging rate at Holiday Inn Alexandria of $49/dbl.
For additional information contact:
Mary Hawkinson
Phone: 612-624-1810
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October 9-11
St. Cloud, Minnesota
Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference
Nebraska
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October 24-25
Nebraska Library Association Conference
New England Area
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August 1996
New England Library Support Staff Association Conference
For more information contact:
Susan Ravdin
Phone: 207-725-3288
Email: sravdin@bowdoin.edu
New Hampshire
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October 6-8
Manchester, New Hampshire
New England Library Association Annual Conference
New York
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October 9, 1996
Liverpool Public Library
Liverpool, NY
LISSCNY Workshop
The newly formed group Library Support Staff of Central New York (LISSCNY) is sponsoring its first workshop, “Advocacy for Support Staff”. The workshop will be presented by Ed Gillen, of the Office of Human Resources Management of the NY State Education Department, nationally recognized speaker on Support Staff issues. The workshop will be held Wednesday, October 9, 1996 at Liverpool Public Library (near Syracuse), 1:00-3:00 pm.
For additional information contact:
Sally Sessler
Syracuse University Library
Phone: 315-443-1211
Fax: 315-443-9401
Email: sasessle@hawk.syr.edu
Oregon
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July 19, 1996
Hilton Hotel and Conference Center
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon Library Association’s Library Support Staff Roundtable
The 2nd Annual Gateways to Knowledge ’96 Conference will be held on Friday, July 19, 1996.
REGISTRATION & COFFEE 7:30-8:30
THE SESSIONS
OPENING SESSION (8:45-9:45 am)
Welcome Deborah Cook, LSSRT Chair
Deborah Carver, OLA President
Keynote Address: “The Constitutional Mission of the Library and Support Staff”
Candace Morgan, Chair, American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee
SESSION I (10:00 - 11:00 am)
INTERNET, LIBRARIES AND FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS (PART I)
Candace Morgan, Deputy Director of Fort Vancouver Regional Library, will discuss the following topics: What is the status of First Amendment freedoms on the Internet? What should be the library’s role in providing public Internet access? How can we apply First Amendment principles to practical management of Internet access? How do support staff fit in? There will be time for questions and answers.
NETWORKING TO GET THINGS DONE
Learn from a “pro” what networking really means. What is networking? Why is it beneficial? How and when to use it. When might networking be inappropriate? Deborah Jacobs, Director of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, will begin with practical steps you can use to network; whether it be with your peers, librarians, or library directors.
COOL WEB SITES
Barbara Valentine, Reference and Systems Librarian at Northrop Library, Linfield College, explores World Wide Web sites selected for their wide appeal and usefulness. These sites are relatively stable, have identified authority, and provide either substantive information or links to key sources.
SPINE MANIPULATION
Meet a book doctor who specializes in spinal injuries. Donetta Sheffold, former Manager of the Materials Preparation Unit of Oregon State University, will discuss and answer basic questions on book mending. She will demonstrate procedures on spine repair; tipping in single and multi-signatures; and mending corners, pages, and paperbacks.
SESSION II (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
INTERNET, LIBRARIES AND FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS (PART II)
Candace Morgan continues this workshop.
A MODEL FOR LEADERSHIP: VALUES, VISION, AND VOICE
A motivational, thought-provoking examination of leadership. Dave Hansen, Dean of Students, Linfield College, will concentrate on three critical leadership characteristics: values, voice, and vision.
BEYOND GOOSEBUMPS AND R.L. STINE: READER’S ADVISORY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
A lively discussion of elements of Reader’s Advisory Service for children and young adults. Naomi Angier and Phil Talbot, Youth Services staff members at the Multnomah County Library System, will discuss conducting a reference interview, matching young readers’ interests with books in your collection, and popular authors and series for children and young adults.
MULTI-CULTURAL OUTREACH: SERVING PATRONS WHO DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH
Rosalie Grafe, Supervisor, Holgate Branch, Multnomah County Library System, has been learning to serve sizeable new populations of immigrants in the Holgate service area since 1990. Front-line staff have helped identify these groups and have assisted in selection of materials their patrons would like to see in the branch collection. In 1992, Holgate Branch had an “International Heritage Day” celebration and have sponsored other outreach programs since.
LUNCHEON SPEAKER (12:30 - 1:45 pm)
LIBRARY HORROR STORIES
Katie Buller, Library Assistant, University of Wisconsin Madison and Internet nut, presents library horror stories gathered from the Internet.
SESSION III (2:00 - 3:00 pm)
MANAGING AGITATED PERSONS (PART I)
Dan Kamada, Director of Acute Care In-Patient Psychiatry at Oregon Health Services, will focus on verbal intervention in dealing with upset people. Techniques used to reduce behaviors of escalating violence and role playing demos will be presented.
THE WEB OR THE NET?
Many people think of the World Wide Web as being all there is to the Internet. This may cause them to overlook important resources available through the older more traditional networks. James Price, Techno-Mentor, and Patrick Blane, Stack Service Manager, both of Multnomah County Library System, will show why it is important to include the older methodologies in searching.
ACCESSING MATERIALS BY SUBJECT: SUBJECT HEADINGS AND KEYWORDS
Felicia Uhden, Catalog Librarian at Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, provides an introduction to major concepts in subject heading assignments, discussion of online catalogs and subject retrieval and an overview of popular subject heading lists. This session will be very helpful for staff and end-users alike who search catalogs by subject and those just beginning to assign subject headings to material.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Charlene Grass, Associate University Librarian for Technical and Automation Services, Oregon State University, will introduce basic project management principles and discuss how to apply these in library situations.
SESSION IV (3:15 - 4:15 pm)
MANAGING AGITATED PERSONS (PART II)
Dan Kamada continues the workshop.
WEBFOOT WEB PAGES FOR INTERLIBRARY LOAN: ONE OREGON LIBRARY’S EXPERIENCE CREATING WEB REQUEST FORMS FOR ILL
Anna Beauchamp, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator, Southern Oregon State College Library, will guide us through a non-technical approach to the use of Web page forms in Interlibrary Loan. Topics include: integrating Web forms into standard ILL routines, developing forms based on your current paper forms, how to communicate with programmers if you aren’t writing the code yourself; impacts on volume, copyright compliance, implications of bypassing the reference interview. This session will take a look online at Oregon pages currently in use, as well as a few good ILL Web forms elsewhere.
SUPPORT STAFF CERTIFICATION
An exploration of support staff certification and its benefits and/or drawbacks by Katie Buller, Library Assistant, University of Wisconsin Libraries.
AUTHOR TALKS: MAMAS, DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE WRITERS
Being a self-employed daydreamer sounds like a pretty good job, doesn’t it? However, to hear it “From the Writers’ Point of View”, join nationally known and recognized Eugene mystery and suspense writers Elizabeth Engstrom and Kate Wilhelm for an entertaining peek into the psyche of a novelist and find out what it takes!
Registration $60
Lodging available at:
Eugene Hilton
66 East Sixth Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
1-800-937-6660
Conference Rate: Please mention LSSRT when making room reservations to obtain rate.
$75 + tax Single
$90 + tax Double
LSSRT HOSPITALITY ROOM
Come join us Thursday evening, 7-9 for networking and conversation
For registration and further information contact:
Deborah Cook
SOSC Library
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
Telephone: 541-552-6825
Washington
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October 10-12, 1996
Holiday Inn-Select
Olympia, WA
1996 WALE Conference
The Fifth Annual conference sponsored by Washington Library Association/Washington Association of Library Employees with the theme “Design Your Future: It’s Up To You!”
Keynote speaker for both days of the conference will be Tinker Massey speaking on “Paraprofessional Career: Challenges That Keep Us on the Edge of Forever” and “Hanging by Our Toes”. Also included will be Jim Hill, ALA SSIRT President, presenting a session entitles “Walk-the-Walk, Talk-the-Talk”. Kent Slade, President-elect of COLT will be speaking on Certification.
Other concurrent sessions include Hands on book mending, Confronting clutter, Volunteer coordinators, Prison libraries, Continuing Education, and several workshops featuring Tinker Massey.
Registration cost is $80 for WLA members and $100 for nonmembers before July 15. Between July 16 and August 31 the cost is $100 for WLA members and $120 for nonmembers. Costs include Friday lunch and dinner and Saturday breakfast.
Lodging available at Holiday Inn-Select, Evergreen Park Drive,
Olympia, WA
1-800-551-8500
For more information:
Martha Parsons
Washington State Energy Office Library
PO Box 43169
Olympia, WA 98504-3169
Phone: 360-956-2159
Fax: 360-956-2217
Email: parsons@halcyon.com
Web site: http://www.halcyon.com/parsons/WALE
Wisconsin
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October 28-29, 1996
Wisconsin Center, University of Wisconsin Madison
Conference for Circulation Managers and
Supervisors--“Circulation: The Ins and Outs”
Sponsored by UW Madison School of Library & Information Studies.
Featured speakers will include Kathleen Weibel speaking on “Circ: What is it? Who does it? Where is it going?” and “The days of our libes--Case Studies”. Debra Wilcox Johnson will be presenting workshops on “Creating a positive work place through team building”, and “Customer service: What’s a manager to do?”
Other workshops will be presented by circulation personnel from Public and Academic libraries from the Midwest area. Included topics are Safety and difficult people, How can we support our support staff, Orchestrating the whole--individually offered for Academic and Public Library personnel, On the job training and supervision, Creating Vision: Policies, procedures, manuals, guides, Self-service checkout and tours of area libraries.
Cost for the conference has not been released.
For more information contact:
Linda Mundt
Outreach Specialist Library & Information Studies
UW Madison
4285 Helen White Hall
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-4452
Fax: 608-263-4849
Email: mundt@macc.wisc.edu
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November 11-14
Holiday Inn
Middleton, WI
Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference
The 1996 Conference theme is “Middleton: Experience it!”. The Support Staff Section of WLA will be presenting a full day of programming on Monday, November 11. Among programs planned by the section are a panel discussion on “Working in Teams” featuring Support Staff from Public, Academic and Special libraries. There will be concurrent sessions on Ergonomics and WWW for Library Support Staff. The afternoon session will feature motivational speaker and consultant Tom Jadin in a program entitled: “Only the Strong Survive”.
Keynote speaker for the full conference will be the syndicated columnist Clarence Page, 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Full conference and registration information will be available in August.
For more information contact:
Wisconsin Library Association
4785 Hayes Road
Madison, WI 53704
Phone: 608-242-2040
Fax: 608-242-2050
If you would like your conference or workshop advertised in ASSOCIATES: The Electronic Library Support Staff Journal, contact:
Paulette Feld
Technical Services
Libraries & Learning Resources
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Phone: 414.424.7369
Fax: 414.424.2175
Bitnet: feld@oshkoshw.bitnet
Internet: feld@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu