FREE professional development event (attend live, or register to receive recording)

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Visit the event website for more details and link to registration: 

https://www.library20.com/mental-health-and-wellness

MN Library Association Opportunities: Student Round Table and Annual Conference

 Student Round Table Call for Nominations

The Student Round Table is looking for new leadership team members for the 2022-23 school year! The Student Round Table is for any student interested in building connections and working with other students in a professional setting before graduating with their library and information science degree. Leadership is open to any students of any library and information science-related programs, as long as the student is a member of the Minnesota Library Association.

For any questions, please contact Megan Demeuse at mrdemeuse786@stkate.edu.

MLA 2022 Conference Update

The Minnesota Library Association (MLA)  is proud to announce the speaker lineup for the 2022 Annual Conference to be held October 27 & 28 in Duluth, MN. The conference theme is “Emerging Opportunities” and is planned to feature keynote speakers and featured speakers that will be well known to Minnesotans and library staff from around the state.

The Thursday lunch keynote is slated to be intellectual freedom champion Reanna Esmail of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Esmail’s talk is to be titled “Intellectual Freedom, Privacy Rights, and the Critical Practice of Librarianship'' and aims to bring nuance to questions related to surveillance capitalism, big data, and censorship, while also exploring ways for library workers to promote privacy rights, digital literacy, and intellectual freedom in their critical praxis. Esmail is a noted national speaker on such topics, a frequent contributor to the Intellectual Freedom Blog, and active with the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom.

Friday’s lunch keynote is to be Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Alan Page. Justice Page will engage in an open conversation with MLA President Steve Harsin about his career, challenges we face in the modern environment, his career writing children’s books, and the Page Foundation. As a Minnesota hero, Justice Page has a unique perspective on a wide range of issues of interest to libraries of all types.

Featured speakers are to include Laura Erickson, one of the best known ornithologists in America, who is to participate in a panel to address work done at the College of St. Scholastica on their Catalogue of Birds. Also, State Librarian Tamara Lee and Head of Minitex Maggie Snow will address their accomplishments of the past year, the results of a state-wide survey they conducted, as well as their vision for Minnesota libraries. Representatives from SELCO will address a major region-wide community assessment conducted in the SE region of Minnesota. And Scott Libin, with a 20 year career in journalism as a reporter, anchor and producer, including 8 years at Twin Cities Public Television is to address “What do the Ancient Greeks, Pyramids and Toyota Minivans have to do with good communication?” The session is about what you need to do to develop a speech where your message will be heard.

Numerous other sessions will be presented by library staff from around the state. The two-day conference will be hosted at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.  Besides the conference sessions, there will be a silent auction fundraiser for the Minnesota Library Foundation, an event at Glensheen Mansion, an annual business meeting, exhibit hall, award ceremonies and other related activities.

The 2022 event marks a return to an in-person conference after two years as a virtual conference during the pandemic. Early bird registration rates are in effect through 11:59pm on August 31, with regular rates thereafter.

Conference registration can be found at the MLA website. https://www.mnlibraryassociation.org/page/2022Conference 

Event Details: Date: Friday, October 7 Time: 8:30am-12:00pm Registration will happen in early September; watch for an update!

CYP Unconference: October 7 Join CYP and fellow Minnesota youth librarians for a morning of learning and growth at this year’s Unconference! The Unconference will uplift LGBTQIA stories and experiences, and we’ll learn more about how to make our colleagues and patrons feel safe and welcomed. We will begin with a presentation by Archie Bongiovanni, a local author whose works include the graphic novel A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns. This will be followed by panel discussions regarding LGBTQIA programming and resources, which will feature local librarians and guest outreach librarian Becky Hass from Annapolis, MD.

ARLD Day 2022 Virtual Conference

 

STUDENT REGISTRATION IS ONLY $5!!!!

ARLD Day registration is open until May 2! Register for ARLD Day ARLD Day will be held via zoom on May 6, 2022, at 8:30am-3:15pm. We have an excellent line-up of sessions this year that you won’t want to miss! We are also very excited to announce our keynote speaker: Connecting the Dots Keynote speaker Derrick Jefferson American University Library, Washington, DC Connecting the Dots is a conversation led by Derrick Jefferson that explores and examines not just identity, but how multiple intersectional identities engage on both personal and professional fronts. How do these identities work in conjunction? Do they coexist? Work in parallel? Create tension? Or do they collide? How do we deal with these results? And how do they inform how we do our jobs? This presentation will explore issues of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and labor in librarianship by centering ourselves and our roles in the library.  Derrick Jefferson is a member of the library faculty at American University in Washington, D.C. His research is focused on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion issues, specifically in higher education libraries, and mentoring new librarians to the profession. He was selected as an ALA Emerging Leader in 2015, is an alum of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship at Loyola Marymount University and is currently enrolled in the Certificate in OER Librarianship at University of Minnesota. He is also an award-winning writer with prose appearing in Tahoma Literary Review, TriQuarterly, The Adroit Journal, and the anthology, Fat and Queer. Register for ARLD Day Full event details and registration information are available on the ARLD Day 2022 event listing. Post-Conference Day Social Hour ARLD will host virtual and regional in-person social hours after the conference day is finished. Please contact Kat Nelsen (kgerwig@umn.edu) if you are interested in coordinating an in-person social hour in your area! Special thanks to our sponsors for making this event possible!  Minnesota Library Association 1611 County Road B W, Ste. 315 Saint Paul, MN 55113 If you would like to unsubscribe: @@unsubscribe_url@@

Call for Poster Presentations! : Twin Cities Archives Round Table (TCART)

 The Twin Cities Archives Round Table (TCART) hosts a symposium annually in the fall (November 1, 2021) called the Minnesota Archives Symposium (MAS). TCART is offering students and young professionals the opportunity to present posters at our virtual symposium in 2021. 

• Topics must be Archives/Records Management related. While there are no other restrictions on topics, member response has suggested that the following topics are of great interest to our members.
• copyright
• preserving moving images/AV materials
• preserving scrapbooks
• born-digital/electronic records management
• grant writing
• Posters should be submitted as PDFs and should contain text no smaller than 12pt type and at least 600dpi.
• Students will have 5 minutes to present their poster with an additional 1-2 minutes for questions. 
• Posters will be included on the TCART blog's event wrap-up post and viewable to the public, unless requested by the creator. 

Submissions should be sent to tcartmn@gmail.com as PDFs no later than October 18, 2021.

For more information about the digital event please visit our website at tcartmn.org 

For membership please visit tcartmn.org/membership

MN Library Association Call for 2021 Conference Proposals - DUE May 21st

 

The Minnesota Library Association Conference Planning Committee is now accepting conference program proposals for the MLA 2021 Annual Conference, October 6-8 (virtual). Proposals are due May 21, 2021. Students in the Library Information Technology program are invited to submit proposals!

Submit proposals here: 2021MLA Conference: Call for Proposals (mnlibraryassociation.org)

Registration is open for ARLD Day- Student Registration is $5

 

Registration is open for ARLD Day

 

Registration is open for ARLD Day ARLD Day will be held via zoom on April 30 8:30am-3:00pm CDT. We have an excellent line-up of sessions this year that you won’t want to miss! We are also very excited to announce our keynote speaker: No More Pipelines: Indigenous Knowledge and LIS Keynote speaker Nicola Andrews Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco In this presentation, Nicola Andrews will explore ways in which historical trauma surfaces within libraries, and highlight the tricky balancing act Indigenous library workers undertake as practitioners who are accountable to their Indigenous home communities, and their colonized workplaces. Using a range of industry research, observation, and Indigenous research methodologies, Andrews will give an overview of how Indigenous peoples and their knowledges are situated throughout the library and information science (LIS) landscape, and how we need to look beyond recruitment pipelines for sustainable answers to underrepresentation in the profession. Nicola Andrews is a member of the Ngāti Pāoa iwi, currently residing on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. As the Instruction/First-Year Experience Librarian at the University of San Francisco, she helps coordinate efforts pertaining to student success. She holds a Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Washington, and is currently finishing a Master of Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago. ARLD invites all Native American, First Nations, Oceanic, Pasifika, and other Indigenous library workers to enjoy sponsored registration at no cost to them. ARLD thanks our 2021 Keynote presenter Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Pāoa Māori) for advocating for this initiative. ACRL members can register at the member rate but must create an account on the MLA website at no cost. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about this. Full event details and registration information are available via our website.   Special thanks to our sponsors for making this event possible Questions? Contact Amy Mars