UT ALA/TLA Student Chapter

For students interested in libraries of all types

School Librarian Panel, November 7th, 7 – 9pm

Interested in being a school librarian? Planning on working with kids or young adults? Interested in hearing the lessons learned by new and seasoned librarians?
UT TLA/ALA is hosting a School Librarian Panel
November 7th
7pm – 9pm
SZB 468
More details to follow.
If you’d like to help with the event (set up, clean up, bring baked goods) [...]

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Brown Bag on Tuesday, November 27th

Join the UT ALA/TLA Student Chapter on Tuesday, November 27th for a brown bag (aka bring your own lunch and eat while we all chat) session featuring:
Gretchen Hoffmann – attorney, copyright expert and former TLA president
Ted Wanner – Continuing Education Consultant at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
November 27th
1pm – 2 pm
SZB 464
Hope to [...]

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ALA Annual Attendees

Hey all of you that went to DC! Welcome back to Austin! The UT ALA/TLA student chapter is planning a post-conference debrief session – open to all iSchoolers. Please send me any materials or notes you would like to share with fellow iSchoolers. I’d love to scan these and turn them [...]

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Pre-Annual Conference Meeting – Thursday, June 14th, Noon

The ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC is coming up!
Come join us in SZB 556 this Thursday, June 14th at 12pm for our ALA Student Chapter Pre-Conference meeting!
Never been to ALA Annual? Bring your questions. Already know the ropes? Bring the answers. We’ll talk about everything from living on the cheap in DC for a [...]

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Ice Cream Social

For iSchool week, ALA/TLA is hosting an Ice Cream Social for ALA President Elect, Loriene Roy. 12:30- 1:30 at the top of the 5th floor escalators.
See you there!

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Speakers this Wednesday (3/7) – Technical Services

Heads up for the TLA/ALA Brown Bag Luncheon on Wednesday, March 7!
Our speakers will be:
Tim Strawn, Head of Cataloguing and Metadata Sources at PCL
Xan Charbonnet, Founder of Biblionix, a complete ILS system for small and medium public libraries.
They’ll offer interesting perspectives on automating and cataloguing information.
You bring your lunch, we share cold drinks.
SZB [...]

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Speaker tomorrow

Come learn about library management from:
Jenifer Flaxbart, Head of Reference and Information Services at PCL
Beth Fox, Director of Westbank Community Library
SZB 464
Wednesday, February 14th
12:00-1:00pm

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