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!
Hey everyone welcome (or welcome back) to the iSchool!
We have a lot of new and exciting events planned for the fall starting with an ice cream social on Monday, September 8th from 12-2pm in SZB 556. We’ll have ice cream novelties for everyone!
We hope to see you there, and are excited to meet many of you at orientation today!
Plus, we hope to see you all at Dog and Duck Pub at 3pm.
Hey everyone! If you were at Conference on Conferences this morning, thank you for coming and for your fantastic questions.
Thanks also to our presenters
and to our panel anchors
We all learned many helpful conference tips, which according to Arro, makes our conference an enormous success. (One of Arro’s tips was to aim to learn ONE new thing at conference that you can bring back and implement.)
Please check out the new links to conference tips on our site, and give us your input through the comment feature. Let us know if there’s resources we’ve missed or if you have tips you’d like to share with your iSchool colleagues.
Special thanks to the TLA Co-Directors and the Conference on Conferences Planning Committee for all your hard work!
Please send comments or questions about Conference on Conferences or UT ALA/TLA to Lea Susan Engle.
Hey everyone! First of all, I’d like to thank everyone that came out to the Brown Bag yesterday. I know I learned a lot and I hope you all did too. If you missed it, here is a little recap of what happened.
We were joined by Ted Wanner, Continuing Education Specialist and all-around knowledgeable guy. Ted talked to us about benefits of ALA/TLA membership, including: the publications (American Libraries, Texas Library Journal), reduced conference fees, networking, professional development, looks good on your resume, and of course, so many more.
Remember, you can join both ALA and TLA for the low low price of $32 for the year.
We also talked about TLA Conference
If you’re looking to get published before you graduate, check out Texas Library Journal, they are always looking for contributors!
Next time we will talk about Legislative Day, Ted stressed the importance of attending this event and reminded us that our TLA Districts (District #3 for Austin) also has meetings to attend and issues we can work on. District Annual Meetings are in Fall, check the TLA website -www.txla.org- for more info.
The last meeting point is the most exciting. TLA presented our student chapter with a generous donation to help support our programming. Thank you TLA!
Did you attend yesterday’s meeting? Do you have something to add?
Did you miss the meeting? Do you have a question?
Post a comment below!
Hey iSchoolers! UT ALA/TLA has big ideas for Spring, and we want you to be a part of them!
First of all, we have three new co-directors: Maya McElroy, Morgan McMillian, and Rebecca Taylor. I’m happy to welcome them to the team and thank them for their service. Bios coming soon!
Second, we are planning an awesome series of brown bag lunches featuring speakers and topics relevant to anyone pursuing a career as an information professional (i.e. YOU!).
TLA’s annual conference is in Dallas this year and our student chapter will help you figure out everything you need to know about registering, navigating, carpooling, mingling, and more! Stay tuned for details on the UT ALA/TLA student chapter’s conference on conferences. (Inspired by ALA’s committee on committees) 
If you aren’t yet a member of ALA/TLA - what are you waiting for?! There is no better (or cheaper) time to become a member. You can join *both* organizations for just $32 for the year. Join today!
Do you have ideas for events? Do you have questions about the iSchool, librarianship, professional organizations? Let us know!
I am very excited about the upcoming semester and hope to see you all at ALA/TLA events!
-Lea Susan Engle
Co-Director and Webmaster
