ALA Copy Cataloging Interest Group

All kinds of conference info is coming out from ALA right now. Again, to make a point: the full ALA conference doesn't come any closer to Minnesota than Chicago - if you can at all afford it, please go! You will not regret it!

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The ALCTS CCS Copy Cataloging Interest Group will meet during the ALA Meeting in Chicago on Saturday, July 11, from 10:30 AM to 12 noon. We're interested in all things copy cataloging, but for our next meeting we're particularly interested in the following topics:

* Copy cataloging for Special Collections.
* How to train copy catalogers in FRBR and RDA, FRBR being here already and RDA on its way.
* Copy cataloging for special formats, such as electronic resources.
* Copy cataloging and vendor records.

Are you doing something in any of these areas that you'd like to share with an eager audience? Would you like to help us explore any of these topics? If so, the Copy Cataloging Interest Group is the place for you! We're looking for people to speak to the group about any of these topics. If you would like to speak to the group, please contact Gene Dickerson, Chair, or Tatiana Barr, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect with your interest. We're looking for people to speak for about 15-20 minutes on any of the topics listed above. If you'd like to propose another topic you're interested in, let us know that, too. Tell us who you are and what topic you'd like to speak about. Don't be shy! Give us a try! If you want to nominate someone else to speak, let us know who he or she is, along with contact information, and we'll take it from there.

Gene Dickerson
Lead Librarian for Cataloging
Ralph J. Bunche Library
U.S. Dept. of State
Washington, DC
DickersonEH@state.gov

Tatiana Barr
Catalog Librarian
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Tatiana.barr@yale.edu

A Thousand Words: Taking Better Photos for Telling Stories in Your Library

Going to ALA in Chicago this summer? Consider this session:

*A Thousand Words: Taking Better Photos for Telling Stories in Your Library*

Presented by: Helene Blowers, Michael Porter, and Cindi Trainor, Friday, July 10, 2009, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in Chicago

If you want to learn how to capture library events more effectively and artistically, don’t miss this hands-on workshop in Chicago this July. Learn the Who, What and Why of shooting, sharing and reusing your library photos, and see how to use widgets and other tools to tell stories and engage your users in your digital space. Learn techniques for shooting and editing better photos, camera settings that make for the best photos, and the basics of editing an image. Privacy policies and Creative Commons will also be covered. The hands-on portion of this workshop will involve using flickr, getting to know your camera, and using desktop and online image editing tools.

Participants should bring a camera and laptop. Be sure to bring your camera's cable or a card reader for downloading photos to your computer.

More information is available at the LITA Web site: http://www.lita.org

You do NOT need to attend Annual Conference to register for a LITA preconference. Visit the 2009 ALA Annual Conference registration page to register for these events.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/2009/registration.cfm

To add a workshop to your existing Annual Conference registration:
Call ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084
OR
use your log in and password to access your existing registration using the online registration form: http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/2009/registration.cfm
Add events in the “Your Events” section; check out and pay for the events you’ve added.

Internships and Updating Skills

On the most recent post on Career Q & A with the Library Career People, they address two questions that come up frequently in our Library Information Technology program: using internships to gain experience, and to update skills.

North Carolina Happenings

For North Carolina Library Paraprofessionals: Scholarship and Membership Information:

1. The North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association is again offering the Meralyn M. Meadows Conference Scholarship for NCLA's biennial conference in October (Greenville, NC).

For information, eligibility requirements, and an application, please go to http://www.nclaonline.org/nclpa/index.html .

If you are the winner of this scholarship, you will receive one night's lodging in a conference hotel, a complimentary meal at the NCLPA business meeting luncheon, the cost of a NCLPA membership for two years, and an opportunity to serve fellow support staff.

NCLPA is a roundtable of the North Carolina Library Association.

2. Also, please join NCLA/NCLPA! Membership information is available at www.nclaonline.org .

Ellen Dickey
NCLPA Scholarship Chair

3rd Annual Information Literacy Conference - Mpls/St. Paul Area

Metronet is pleased to announce their 3rd Annual Information Literacy Conference!

Transformation from Within: Creating a 21st Century Learning Commons
Friday - June 19, 2009
University of Minnesota Conference Center – St. Paul
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Featured speakers: David Loertscher and Allison Zmuda

Registration fee is $40, but principals can bring their media specialist for free!

Visit http://www.metrolibraries.net for more details and the link to registration.

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A Learning Commons combines library and computer labs into a client-side organization both physical and virtual. Its central idea is a facility built on the idea that if THEY build it, they will use it as opposed to the current notion that if WE build it, they will use it.

The Learning Commons is a giant collaborative, the center of school culture, the showcase of excellence in teaching and learning, the center of school improvement, and, is the place where technology is transformed into a force for high level thinking and achievement.

Allison Zmuda and David Leortscher will explore the creation of such a center and will demonstrate and focus on the types of teaching and learning demonstrated in the Learning Commons that can radiate out from the Commons into the entire school. The audience will experiment with various models for transforming traditional learning experiences into high-level thinking, high tech, and collaborative experiences co-taught by classroom teachers, teacher librarians, teacher technologies, and/or other specialists in the school.

The presenters will explore the differences between academic computing and instructional computing that help push Web 2.0 tools into the mix of learning strategies to meet 21st Century Skills.

April [MN] State Library Services Streaming News Available

April State Library Services Steaming News

The April newsletter is available at

http://education.state.mn.us/mdeprod/groups/Library/documents/Publication/013887.pdf

and

http://tiny.cc/d30b4

In this month’s issue:

Public school library media center second annual report underway

Minnesota Book Award speaker grant applications due May 4

College savings effort partners with summer reading program

Minnesota Library Association to hold public library shortfall webinar conversation

Bruce Pomerantz serves as grant reviewer for U.S. Department of Education Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program

Learn immediately when a Streaming News edition is posted by using the notify.me web-based application.