UT ALA/TLA Student Chapter

Ice cream social today!
12-1 pm
downstairs in the student lounge
free ice cream (inc. non-dairy for all our lactose-intolerant and vegan iSchoolers) and soda
come eat ice cream or else we will be forced to let it get freezer-burned (or eat it ourselves, horror)

Hey, everyone, I hope y’all had a good winter break and are ready to get back in the grind! Welcome to all the new people joining us for the first time this semester, and thanks for listening to our plug at orientation–if you’re interested in officially joining ALA and TLA, all the information you need is at this page.

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce our directors-in-training: Courtney Jeffries, Anjali Bhasin, and Sara Arnold-Garza. They’ll be taking over for Amy, Sheri, Ramona and I in the fall, and we’re looking forward to working with them this semester.

Stay tuned for announcements of this semester’s events–you can subscribe to our RSS feed at the bottom of the sidebar, or look out for e-mails in The Insider.

Hey iSchoolers,

We have two Brown Bags planned for Sept. Remember to bring your lunch, questions, and ideas. We’ll provide drinks and a few snacks.

Thurs 9/17 – noon – 5.522
General Info Session – Wondering what ALA/TLA is all about and what we have planned for this fall? Come join us for an informal sit down.

Wed 9/23 – noon – 5.522
Ted Wanner from the Texas Library Association (TLA) has planned a presentation entitled: “Be a Player: Opportunities in professional library associations”

Greetings, everyone, from your friendly neighborhood UT ALA/TLA co-directors! We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome all the new blood coming in–if you’re reading this after the 19th, you probably heard from two of us at orientation, and we’d love to have you aboard. All of you returning iSchoolers, welcome back, we hope you had a great summer, and we also hope you’ll help get involved with our student branch.

We have lots of events planned for this fall semester, so here’s a preview:

Tuesday, September 1, 12-1 pm, UTA 5.522: First Ice Cream Social of the year!

Thursday, September 17, 12-1 pm, UTA 5.522: UT ALA/TLA informational meeting–come out and see what we’re all about, and how you can get involved.

Wednesday, September 23, 12-1 pm, UT 5.522: Brown Bag Lunch with Ted Wanner, Continuing Education Consultant for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Thursday, November 5, 12-1 pm, UT 5.522: Brown Bag Lunch with Gloria Meraz, Director of Communications for TLA

Also, stay tuned for information about a round table meeting with recent iSchool grads!

Here’s to the fall 2009 semester–we hope to see you guys around!

You don’t have to scream for your ice cream–just come to the
ALA/TLA ICE CREAM SOCIAL!
Wednesday, June 17
12-1 pm
SZB 556

Come eat some ice cream (and there’ll be dairy-free stuff there for our vegan/lactose-intolerant friends), hang out with other iSchoolers, and cool off in this Texas summer heat.

April 13 – 15 is NLW 2009.

To celebrate, we’re setting up a book exchange. You may not have time to read now, but in a few weeks you may want to relax with a good book.
How it works: Starting Monday, check the table near the mailboxes and take a book that looks interesting to you. While you’re there, leave a book of your own to share with someone else.

Another way to celebrate: Starting Tuesday, visit the butcher paper display over the ALA display board and write or draw something about your favorite library, or your favorite library things.

So. What do you do when some of your colleagues publish a book? You throw a party, of course. So that’s what we’re doing. Without further ado:

You’re invited to
A reception celebrating the release of
Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice
edited by Kelly Jensen and Alex Hershey Meyers, iSchool alumnae, and Dr. Loriene Roy, iSchool professor and former ALA president
contributed to by Sara Albert, A. Arro Smith, Gilik Choi, Joe Sanchez, and Dr. Gary Geisler
Monday, April 20, 2009
12 PM
Room 556, Sanchez Building
refreshments will be provided

Be there. Tell your friends.

Our Brown Bag this month will be April 15 at noon in SZB 556. Our speaker is Carolyn Cunningham, who works at PCL, so if you have questions about academic libraries or UT’s very own library system, bring them!

And of course your friendly neighborhood ALA/TLA co-directors will be bringing some snacks. Come join us!

Start your weekend off right! Join UT-ALA/TLA for tours of two east side Austin Public Libraries and then a drink at the Nomad Bar.

We will start at 3:15p the Terrazas Branch (1105 East César Chávez St) and go on a tour with Eric Travis – Managing Librarian. After that we will move on to the Windsor Park Branch (5833 Westminster Dr) and go on a tour at 4:15p with DJ Harris – Managing Librarian. Then we head to the Nomad Bar (1213 Corona Dr) for beverages.

I still have some room if you want to carpool. I will be in the loading zone behind Sanchez at 2:50p. Please email me off list if you would like to share a ride.

Hope you can join us for all or part of the afternoon!