ASSOCIATES (vol. 7 no. 2, November 2000) - associates.ucr.edu
JANUARY 2001
Date: January 12-17, 2001
Place: Washington, D.C.
Event: ALA Midwinter Conference/SSIRT Board Meeting
Contact: http://www.ala.org/ssirt/
During the ALA Midwinter Conference, the Support Staff Interests Round Table (SSIRT) will hold its Board Meeting. The Board Meeting will be on Saturday, January 13, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., with a discussion group from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to both meetings. The afternoon discussion group will primarily focus on the three Task Force Reports; recommendations on how to proceed, and next steps. Your input is needed. Check the SSIRT website for meeting locations and agenda updates (http://www.ala.org/ssirt).
FEBRUARY 2001
Date: February 9, 2001 8-4 pm
Place: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event:
Basic Skills for Support Staff: An exploration of library user concerns
More information is available at: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slis/academic/ces/BSSS.html
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Date: February 19 - March 6, 2001
Place: Cuba
Event: Cuba Library Tour
Sponsor: Cuban Arts Project (a non-profit organization promoting cultural and
educational exchanges)
Cost: Can $2500 (US $1675) from Vancouver, B.C. or Calgary or Edmonton.
Can $2300 (US $1565) from Toronoto or Halifax.
Contact: Robert Carrasco (604) 736-0931 or Susan Weber (604) 876-6917 (e-mail:
Susanaquerida@yahoo.ca)
Join Cuban colleagues, visit Public libraries, the National Library, the National Medical Library, the University of Havana, and tour schools. Visit four distinct regions of this Island paradise: the beach at Varadero, the restored colonial city of Trinidad, the capital of Havana, and the lush agricultural valley of Vinales. See a Farmers' Coop, a Botanical Garden, the natural caves of Vinales and other sites. Learn how the Cuban people have access to free public libraries, free education, and have a very high literacy rate. Meet Government officials from the Ministry of Education. Talk with Cubans in their neighborhood about their community. Enjoy the music, the dance, and the enthusiasm of Cuba! Experience firsthand the warmth of Cuba! A deposit of $250.00 is required by December 1, 2000. Balance due by January 2, 2001.
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Date: February 21-25, 2001
Place: New York City, New York
Event: The Music Library Association (MLA), 70th Annual Meeting
Sponsor: MLA Contact: Christine Hoffman (212) 988-3792, by fax at (212) 327-4044,
or e-mail at: choffie@juno.com URL: http:
www.musiclibraryassoc.org/nycmeet/wh_meet_nyc.htm
The Music Library Association (MLA) will hold its 70th Annual Meeting at the Grand Hyatt New York in New York City, February 21-25, 2001. MLA will be joined by members of the Theater Library Association, the Dance Librarians Discussion Group of the ACRL Arts Section and the Congress on Research in Dance. The opening plenary session, titled "Documenting the Present for the Future," will be held in the Bartos Forum of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library of The New York Public Library.
Panelists Betty Corwin and Madeline Nichols will describe the film and videotape documentation of contemporary drama and dance which is part of the NYPL's Billy Rose Theater Collection and Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Committee and Round table programs during the meeting will encompass all of the performing arts. Mary E. Edsall, President of the Congress on Research in Dance, will give a talk on a core collection in dance. The second plenary session will focus on the quincentenary of music printing. The four panelists will represent the perspectives of the composer, performer, publisher and historian.
The MLA Local Arrangements Committee, host of the 70th Annual Meeting, is planning special tours of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives in Queens, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, and the archives of the New York Philharmonic. Tours of several Broadway theaters will be organized by members of the Theater Library Association. Additionally, there will be the MLA Organ Crawl and a jazz pub crawl of downtown Manhattan. The annual meeting will also include a reception hosted by Grove's Dictionaries, Inc. at the Pierpont Morgan Library, the home of our country's largest collection of music manuscripts. A concert and reception to celebrate the completion of MLA's Plan 2001 will be held at the new Proschansky Auditorium of the City University Graduate Center. Banquet entertainment will include the Bobby Sanabria Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble.
Of special interest to paraprofessionals, an Open Forum for Library Support Staff will be sponsored by the MLA Outreach Subcommittee on Thursday, February 22 from 2:30-3:30. This forum is being held for all paraprofessionals attending MLA to compare notes, share concerns, and meet other support staff attending the meeting.
APRIL 2001
Date: April 20-23, 2001
Place: Holiday Inn-State Capitol, Raleigh, North Carolina
Event: Extending Our Reach: Redefining and Promoting Agricultural Information
Through Partnerships
Sponsor: USAIN
Cost: $10.00 registration fee, $10.00 box lunch (optional). Online registration
is available at: http://www.unco.edu/library/gov/parapros/registration.htm
Contact: http://usain.org/conferenceinvite.html
The official call for participation is now out and may be viewed at the above website. USAIN is looking for contributed papers, poster sessions, and technology expo participants. The Technology Expo is a first for this conference. Expo demonstrations may be works in progress or completed works featuring actual demonstrations of software design or customization, network applications, experimental systems, or other results of research. Additional information will be posted to the USAIN home page as it is developed.
JUNE 2001
Date: June 13-15, 2001
Place: San Francisco, California
Event: COLT Annual Conference
Sponsor: COLT
Unfortunately, the COLT mid-winter regional conference, originally planned for Washington, D.C. in January, has been canceled. However, the COLT Annual Conference in June of 2001 is definitely ON. "Library Support Staff: Still Moving in the Right Direction." The conference will be held in San Francisco, California, June 13-15, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency/ Embarcadero. You will want it in your summer plans. To get a preview go to this web site: http://library.ucr.edu/COLT/events.html#CALENDAR
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Susan Salt
Events Editor
Library Technician
Cataloging Branch
National Agricultural Library
ssalt@nal.usda.gov
