Register for the 2nd Annual Minnesota Archives Symposium

Join the Hennepin County Library Special Collections and the Twin Cities Archives Round Table on Friday, November 15, 2013 for the second annual Minnesota Archives Symposium. This year’s theme is Making Connections: Advocacy, Awareness and Archives. Attend the Symposium to meet with your peers and learn what methods archivists, librarians, curators, and other information management professionals are doing to advocate and make connections with others, both within their institution and with the public.

Registration for this event is FREE.

Schedule of Events (for detailed session descriptions and full schedule attached to this post)

• 12:15-12:45 pm Optional HCL Archives Tour w/Ted Hathaway (must pre-register limit 20)
• 12:45-1:00 pm TCART Sponsored Pre-Symposium Coffee & Mingle Break

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• 1:00-1:15 pm Speaker: Introduction to the Symposium 
• 1:15-2:15 pm Session One: Advocating Within: Demonstrating the Value of Archives and Archivists with Jamie Martin
• 2:15-2:45 pm TCART Sponsored Coffee & Mingle Break & Optional HCL Archives Tour w/Ted Hathaway (must pre-register limit 20)
• 2:45-3:45 pm Session Two: Using Interns and Volunteers to Improve Your Community Relations and Promote Future Librarian and Archivists (While Still Supporting Your Operations) with Ted Hathaway 
• 3:45pm-4:00 pm TCART Sponsored Coffee & Mingle Break
• 4:00-5:00 pm Session Three Making Deeper Connections: How Community Outreach Can Strengthen Support for Special Collections and Create More Meaningful Programming with Elissah Becknell and Rebecca March

Registration Information:The Minnesota Archives Symposium will be held in the Mary and David Doty Board Room (2nd floor) at Central Public Library in Minneapolis, MN from 1:00 – 5:00 PM on Friday, November 15.  Registration is FREE, but we ask that participants register their intent to attend by filling out a registration form by Friday, November 8th for planning purposes.  You can find the form online here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15nc1v4w8E6kSQFALr3PAZft2WB8HHvEZ1qiOsIVwqRk/viewform 

Questions?Please contact TCART at tcartmn@gmail.com or Elissah Becknell at elissah.becknell@minneapolis.edu for questions and information.

Twin Cities Zinefest 2012 Needs Volunteers!

Twin Cities Zinefest is happening September 22, 2012, 12-6pm

The 2012 Twin Cities Zinefest coming up quick and in need of volunteers. Contribute your time, creativity and energy to make this event happen.  Here are some needs:

1. People to help set up and tear down at Zinefest
2. Someone to staff the pop-up distro table
3. A photographer to roam around and take pics
4. A signmaker to whip up a sandwich board sign to draw people in
5. Someone to organize workshops or skillshares or whatever you want to happen

If you would like to join the mailing list or volunteer, please email Lacey Prpić Hedtke at zines@zinefest.org.

Twin Cities Zinefest Official Website: http://zinefest.org/about/

You can also contact Lacey if you are interested in setting up a table for Zinefest, or you can register while on the website:

http://zinefest.org/2012-zinefest-table-registration/

MCTC Library will have a table and we may also need some volunteers.

Thanks!

Save the Dates: Twin Cities Alt Press Events

September 16-18, 2011 Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair

Friday 9/16: UMN West Bank – Blegen Hall, Room 415

5:30pm – Radical History panel discussion with Andrej Grubacic and Terry Bisson

Saturday 9/17: Powderhorn Park

10:30am – 6:00pm – Tables, speakers and workshops

10pm – Afterparty @ Sisters Camelot (2310 Snelling Ave, Mpls)

Sunday 9/18: Powderhorn Park

10:30am – 6:00pm – Tables, speakers, and workshops

2:00pm – Really Really Free Market

Twin Cities Zinefest: September 24, 2011, 12-5pm  

Since 2004, the Twin Cities Zinefest has welcomed creatives, rebels, musicians and frustrated intellectuals to connect, create and share ideas. As the area’s premiere DIY craft, culture and self-publishing event, Zinefest often features an art show, live music, craft demonstrations, guest speakers and panel discussions. Most importantly, Zinefest plays host to some of the Midwest’s best self-made talent.

MN Special Library Association Chapter's Continuing Education Event

The SLA Minnesota Chapter invites you to attend its annual continuing education event:

Creating Influence: How to Get What You Want

Learn to communicate in a powerful and effective way with the corporate and organizational decision-makers in your institutions.

You’ll learn how to predict and prepare for organizational challenges and opportunities and develop your value proposition and an individual value statement -- your elevator speech. This class will be fun, practical, and hands-on. 

The presenters have taught this course at Medical Library Association regional chapter and national meetings with good reviews from participants. They look forward to bringing the course to SLA in MN!

INSTRUCTORS

Lisa K. Traditi, MLS, AHIP, an academic health sciences librarian and former hospital librarian with 25 years experience in practice. Frank Traditi, an executive leadership and management coach with his own private practice and more than 20 years in the corporate world.

WHEN

Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 
12:30 – 1 p.m. Registration
1-5 p.m. Presentation/Workshop

 *Refreshments will be served.

WHERE

REI 
Community Room
750 W American Blvd
Bloomington, MN 55420
952.884.4315

Please park in the main parking lot and walk through the REI store. When you get to the shoe department, take a right to the Community Room.

Directions to REI Bloomington

COST

$50 for SLA members
$35 for students, unemployed, or retired
$60 for non-members

REGISTRATION

Registration is a two-part process. Please register and send payment by Monday, Sept. 19. Space is limited. 

Please SEE MN SLA's blog post for all the details!