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In this Issue:
ARLD Happy Hour – LibTech EditionAttend In‐Person ACRL WebinarThe Small and Rural Libraries Round Table Idea SessionLatest Content Added to MLA's Digital CollectionLake Superior Libraries Symposium 2016: Call for ProposalsSave the Date! Workshop with ARLD Day Keynote Speaker Maria T. Accardi onApril 28Free 2016 calendars from the Minnesota Digital LibraryALA task force seeks your input on economic implications of participating at ALAfunctionsALA Spotlight on MLA History: Keeping Minnesota Libraries on the Move (Part 1)MLA Board UpdateWelcome New Members!
ARLD Happy Hour – LibTech EditionAcademic library folks and other library friends‐ please join ARLD (MLA's Academic andResearch Libraries Division) for a happy hour/social gathering of library folk during theLibrary Technology Conference. Your current ARLD Chair and several other ARLD Boardmembers will be in attendance! The happy hour will take place at A La Salsa, in theMidtown Global Market. If you like margaritas, monographs, matriculation, and/ormetadata, this is the happy hour for you! This location is conveniently located right nextto the Sheraton Midtown, one of the conference hotels (so, conference attendeesstaying at the hotel can easily catch their shuttle back to the hotel at the end of the dayand then join us.) There is also a parking ramp and a metered parking lot on either side(ramp on one side, lot on the other) of the Midtown Global Market. It is a relativelycentral location for an affordable cab/Uber/Lyft ride from various Twin Cities Locations,as well as a central transit hub.
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When:
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
Where:
A La Salsa: Restaurante Mexicano & BarIn the Midtown Global Market920 East Lake StreetMinneapolis, MN 55407
RSVP here
Attend In‐Person ACRL WebinarThe Academic & Research Library Division of the Minnesota Library Association/ACRLMinnesota Chapter present:
Free in‐person showing of an ACRL e‐Learning Webcast & discussion:
Modern Pathfinders: Easy Techniques to Make Better Research Guides
When:
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 from 1:00 p.m. ‐ 3:00 p.m.
Where:
Walter Library, Room 101University of Minnesota117 Pleasant Street SEMinneapolis, MN 55455
Registration: Free registration is required and limited to 65. Register now!
Webinar Details: Librarians put many hours into creating research guides, and usagestudies have shown that students use them very little. Learn some effective techniquesof instructional design and web usability that any librarian can apply to make onlineguides better and more useful to your students, whether you’re using LibGuides or ahome‐brew system.
The webinar will be followed by a facilitated discussion about LibGuides and othersystems people use for online research guides.
Refreshments will be provided.
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The Small and Rural Libraries RoundTable Idea SessionThe Small and Rural Libraries Round Table has planned an online "idea session" forTuesday, March 22 from 1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:00 p.m. to talk about how SRLRT can be moreuseful for everyone. Please bring your ideas! We want to hear from you!
Please register here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information aboutjoining the webinar.
Contact Heidi Schutt with any questions at [email protected].
Latest Content Added to MLA's DigitalCollectionThe MLA Digital History Project Committee has completed work on a third batch ofcontent, and the items are now available in Minnesota Reflections. This brings our totalnumber of document items to 119 (1300 pages). The latest batch includes MLA annualconference programs, reports and proceedings (1937‐1961), and six traveling librarybook title lists from 1898.
Visit the MLA collection by visiting this link.
Lake Superior Libraries Symposium2016: Call for ProposalsThe organizers of the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium (LSLS) invite breakout sessionproposals for our fifth annual conference to be held on May 20, 2016 at the College ofSt. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. While many conferences have focused on thefuture of libraries, LSLS is excited to highlight today’s top hits that rockin’ libraries haverolled out. These timeless tracks can help you meet the challenges you’re facing today.This year’s theme, “NOW That’s What I Call Libraries!” celebrates the inspiring, bold, andcreative ways libraries are meeting their patrons’ needs.
Successful breakout session presentations will be applicable to many types of librariesand showcase effective and innovative practices. Panel presentations, particularly thoserepresenting a diversity of library types, sizes, and/or locations, are strongly encouraged.All presenters will receive a discounted registration rate of $25. Please submit proposals
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at http://z.umn.edu/proposals by Thursday, March 17, 2016. Presenters will be notifiedof acceptance in early April. For more information, please view our full Call forProposal here.
Save the Date! Workshop with ARLDDay Keynote Speaker Maria T. Accardion April 28Join the Instruction Roundtable for “From Cynicism to Empowerment: How LibrariansWho Teach Can Resist Burnout,” a pre‐ARLD Day workshop with keynote speaker MariaT. Accardi!
Librarians who teach often face marginal status in the campus community, faculty whodo not understand information literacy and why it matters, the repetitive nature of one‐shot library instruction, and a general lack of time and resources. These conditions canlead to the emotional distress, exhaustion, and cynicism that characterize burnout. Thisworkshop will identify common causes of and solutions for burnout for librarians whoteach and guide participants toward developing concrete strategies for enacting aburnout prevention and recovery plan, emphasizing self‐care and personalempowerment to bring about change in their own lives.
The workshop will be held from 12:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. on April 28, 2016 at theUniversity of Minnesota St. Paul Student Union. Registration coming soon! The workshopis sponsored by ARLD, IRT, and Minitex. Contact Kim Pittman ([email protected])with questions.
Free 2016 calendars from theMinnesota Digital LibraryThe Minnesota Digital Library has 2016 calendars available that feature images fromMinnesota Reflections, the Minnesota Digital Library's premier project. If you would liketo give these free calendars out at your local library, please don't hesitate to order 50,100, or more to give away! Place your order online here, (scroll down to the MDLsection) and we can send them to you through the Minitex Delivery system.
ALA task force seeks your input oneconomic implications of participatingat ALA functions
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The ALA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion was created in the spring of 2014by then ALA President, Barbara Stripling. The Task Force is currently in the information‐gathering phase. To aid with information gathering, it has launched a series of shortsurveys to be conducted at times to coincide with the ALA Midwinter Meetings andAnnual Conferences through 2016. These surveys are designed to help understand theculture of the association, the profession, and our communities with respect to equity,diversity, and inclusion.
We recognize that incidents of racial bias and injustice continue to occur across thecountry on a regular basis. This third survey, however, focuses on the economicimplications of participating in ALA functions.
The survey can be accessed at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TEDI3.
Responses will be collected through Friday, March 18, 2016. ALA members and non‐members are encouraged to participate.
Please take a few minutes to answer the survey, which should take no more than 7minutes to complete. “Embracing and celebrating diversity, and creating a more inclusiveprofession have been long‐standing goals of the American Library Association. With yourhelp, we hope to ensure these values are upheld,” said Task Force co‐chairs Trevor A.Dawes and Martin L. Garnar.
The ALA Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’s charge is to develop a plan andstrategic actions to build more equity, diversity, and inclusion among our members, thefield of librarianship, and our communities. The most important Task Force outcome isthe public and honest conversation generated by its plan and recommended actions. Thefinal Task Force report will include recommendations for ensuring that a continuingfocus on equity, diversity, and inclusion is embedded throughout the ALA organization.
Questions about the survey can be sent to the Task Force at [email protected].
ALA Spotlight on MLA History: KeepingMinnesota Libraries on the Move (Part1)Take a look at these blasts from the past, featuring handwritten travelling library listsand bookmobiles circa 1920 to the 1990s1 . . .
Travelling Libraries
Gratia Countryman remembered the travelling library program as “the largest piece ofwork which the [Minnesota Library] Association accomplished prior to 1900, a piece oflegislation…fostering of the public library movement.”2 The statewide program served
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book‐starved rural populations from 1898 to 1956 and helped establish the governancestructures for local public libraries in many communities.
Travelling Library Number 1, Minnesota Library Association, 1898.Minnesota Library Association Archives, Minnesota Historical Society. Image available at Minnesota Reflections:
http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16022coll60/id/1290
Shown above are titles from an early travelling collection, which included educationaland popular reading such as Wright’s Dragon & Raven; Gillette’s Save Your Minutes; andSewell’s Black Beauty. Below is a demonstration display of the program from the 1920s.
Minnesota Department of Education exhibit for free traveling library, c.1925.Minnesota Library Association Archives, Minnesota Historical Society. Image available at MNOpedia:
http://www.mnopedia.org/multimedia/minnesota‐department‐education‐exhibit‐free‐traveling‐library
1n 1938, an MLA “Fact Finders” radio spot helped promote the value of travellinglibraries to schools: (see the December edition of the RoundUp for more information onMLA’s radio script project).
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Script V, Fact Finders, Radio Program, Minnesota Library Association, page 5 (1938).Minnesota Library Association Archives, Minnesota Historical Society. Image available at Minnesota Reflections:
http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16022coll60/id/48
And with Library Legislative Day just around the corner (April 13, 2016), we should alsonote that travelling libraries were once an important part of MLA’s legislative platform!
Minnesota Library Association Peddler, May 1939.Minnesota Library Association Archives, Minnesota Historical Society. Image available at Minnesota Reflections:
http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16022coll60/id/297/rec/10
Speaking of portable literature… how about some trivia!
A is for Advocacy, Association, and the last name of a Minneapolis writer who is knownfor her mobile writing studio and arts activism. At last year’s conference she could bespotted writing poems for attendees on the fly at the Creation Station. Our very ownMLA 2015 “Poet Laureate,” her poem “to honor and celebrate the 125th Anniversary of
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the Minnesota Library Association,” will be featured in next month’s RoundUp. Can youguess who she is?
1Many thanks to the Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota Reflections for providing digital access to so many delightful imagesrecording the history of the Minnesota Library Association!2Gratia A. Countryman, “The Early History of the M.L.A., 1891‐1900.” Minnesota Libraries, 13.11 (1942): 322‐326.
MLA Board UpdateThe MLA Board met on Friday, February 19th. The approved minutes from the previousmonth's meeting may be found here. The agenda from each meeting is posted hereseveral days prior to the meeting. Board meetings are open to the public and membersare encouraged to attend.
Welcome new members!The following have joined MLA this quarter. Welcome to MLA!
Debra EschweilerKristen CooperVerena GetahunHillary Brodsky
Thank you renewing members!MLA thanks all of those members who renewed during the month of February!
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