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”

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Thanks also to our presenters

• Sam Burns – finding conferences
• Lea Susan Engle – finding funding and session planning
• Paul Aumer-Ryan – poster sessions
• Arro Smith – what NOT to do

and to our panel anchors

• Alex Hershey
• Don Hamerly

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!

• Ramona Broussard
• Lea Susan Engle
• LeChele Gishi
• Maya McElroy
• Morgan McMillian
• Allison Steger
• Becca Taylor

Please send comments or questions about Conference on Conferences or UT ALA/TLA to Lea Susan Engle.