Wondering how that poll turned out, where we asked for your vote on what new committees ULS should create? Here’s the overview (click the image to enlarge it).
For more detailed responses, you’re welcome to view our full poll results on SurveyMonkey.
Looks like Academic Outreach is the one to start with, eh? Feel free to contact me directly if you have thoughts about this, or comment below.
Check out Longshots #177 Bringing a Youthful Vision to ALA (August 5, 2009), Sarah Long’s interview with ULS Vice Chair Kim Leeder.
Summary from the Library Beat website:
Sarah talks with recent MLIS graduate Kim Leeder, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Boise State University and Vice Chair for the University Libraries Section of ACRL . Kim shares her experiences as a new librarian working in a long-standing library association, and talks about what traditional library organizations have to offer new librarians, and what new librarians have to offer in return. They also talk about how Kim established herself so quickly in her new profession and what drew her to ACRL.
In the next year ULS will be initiating several new committees in order to create more opportunities for ULS members to be active in the section while also expanding ULS’s contributions to university librarianship.
What will those committees be? We want you to tell us.
Vote now! via our one-question Surveymonkey poll.
As you plan your ALA calendar, consider the ACRL-ULS program, Millennials in Graduate School: How do We Support them? on Saturday, July 11th from 1:30 to 3:00 PM in McCormick Place West, W-196c. Millennials, those born between 1982 and 1994, are entering graduate school and doctoral programs. Surveys suggest that these students use libraries heavily and are less than satisfied with the experience. What do these digital multi-taskers want and expect? How can university libraries support their needs?
This program will bring together a panel of speakers to discuss trends in graduate education, the expectations of this cohort and the successful approaches that will engage them. Speakers include Susan Gibbons from University of Rochester, reporting on her latest ethnographic study of graduate students, Joan K. Lippincott from the Coalition for Networked information and Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries at the University of Tennessee. The program will also feature a video montage of graduate students making their case to librarians. All attendees will receive a chance to win an iPod Touch!
A hearty congratulations to all the winners of the ULS 2009 Elections!!
They are:
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Kim Leeder
Secretary: Glenda Thornton
Members-At-Large: Tinsley Silcox and Tanner Wray
Winners have been added to the official 2009-10 rosters at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/resources/leadership/sectioncommittee1.cfm.
I was intrigued by the recent ACRLog post wondering why there are separate CLS and ULS sections within ACRL, and it got me thinking. How do we explain who we are as a section? What is unique about ULS? How do we convey what we have to offer and interest librarians new to the profession and/or new to ACRL?
There is a misconception that ULS is a section for library administrators, but did you know that many of the people who are members of or chair committees in ULS are not administrators, but are middle management and frontline librarians? In fact, the current Past-Chair, Chair, and I (Vice-Chair, Chair-elect) are not library administrators. I became involved in ULS years ago because my mentor was active in the section, but had I not had that connection, I’m not sure that I would have thought to become involved in the work of this particular section. I hear from many of my new colleagues that they want to be involved in sections, divisions, and organizations that directly pertain to their jobs. For some of them, this is a requirement for travel funding for conferences. They don’t immediately see a place where they “fit in” with ULS, or one where they feel that they can make a significant contribution. How do we change this, whether it’s merely a perception or whether it’s truth?
ULS is a large section with many members who have diverse interests, but what is our common thread? Yes, most of us work for universities, but what else? As I begin to plan for my tenure as Chair of ULS, I’d like to hear your thoughts about the section, what we should be focusing on, who we are, and what we’re about.
The ACRL University Library Section 2009 Nominating Committee is pleased to put forth a call for nominations for ULS Executive Committee vacancies to the ULS membership. We are calling for nominations for the following offices.
ULS Chair Elect/Vice Chair
ULS Secretary
2 ULS member-at-large positions
If you would like to put someone forth for nomination or be please sent the name and contact information to the Chair of the Nominating Committee, Cheryl Middleton. The ACRL-ULS nominating committee will meet virtually to determine the slate of candidats to be considered for office for ACRL by September 12, 2008.
Technology and electronic social networking are pervasive among today’s college students. Cell phones, iPods, IM, MySpace, and FaceBook are just some of the tools these students use daily. Communicating in a meaningful way and finding teachable moments with these multitasking Millennials can truly be a challenge. In this session, we will learn to navigate the world of digital communication with the help of a panel of leading researchers—and the true experts, a group of Millennial students.
Read more here: http://r.u.communicating.googlepages.com/home