Public Library Division (PLD) Day - April 25th (Registration closes April 21st)

Public Library Division Day (PLD) Day is coming up at the end of this month! This year's in-person event, located at Brookdale Library, focuses on the varied uses of Artificial Intelligence in Public Library settings, including an AI Panel with information professionals from around Minnesota, and a Keynote by members of Minitex staff (including an LIT faculty, Elissah Becknell). 

PLD Day organizers would be thrilled to welcome the energy and perspective of MCTC students at this yearly event! 

Registration information can be found here.

NOTE: Registration is capped at 70 and registration closes April 21st. (If the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please contact Jennifer.Sippel@minneapolis.edu) 

FREE Event: From Resistance to Resilience: The Evolution of African American Reading

The Givens Foundation

For African American Literature

The upcoming literary conference, “From Resistance to Resilience: The Evolution of African American Reading,” is an extraordinary opportunity to champion literacy, cultural equity, and social justice. Scheduled for June 3, 2025, this one-day event is made possible through the generous support of the Minnesota Humanities Center.

For more information and FREE registration!

LIT Panel (virtual) Event: Equity at the Library - Saturday, Oct 7th, 2023

 

Equity at the library October 7 2023 by Amanda Mills

LIT (Virtual) Event: Networking + Mapping Prejudice on Friday, April 21st, 2023

Please SAVE THE DATE & RSVP!!!

Copy of LIT Spring 2023 Networking + Mapping Prejudice by Jennifer Sippel

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

This looks like a promising event. It is free, and you can attend live or watch the recording after. Check it out! 

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

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

LIT virtual event: Public Libraries in Community Publishing

Redesign 2 of Public Libraries in Community Publishing Save the Date by Amanda Mills

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@@

LIT Event: Customer Service Workshop

Spring 2022 LIT Customer Service Workshop (Instagram Post) (Flyer) by Amanda Mills

Spring 2022 LIT Program Events

Spring 2022 LIT Events by Jennifer Sippel

Program Event: Resume Presentation on Thursday, Nov 4, 2021

 

Fall Resume Presentation by Jennifer Sippel

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