UT ALA/TLA Student Chapter

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a double dose of brown bags

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 [...]

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hello, lovelies!

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 [...]

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Ice Cream Social!

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.

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National Library Week 2009

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. [...]

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RECEPTION! April 20 @ 12 pm in 556

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 [...]

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April Brown Bag! 4-15-09

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!

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Library Pub Crawl! Friday, March 6

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 [...]

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