Summer Announcements

15 Aug 2012 at 13:17

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ACRL, ALA, Conference Information

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Midwinter 2013 (Seattle) WGSS Meetings to be held online:

  • 2013 Midwinter WGSS committee meetings (including Executive) will be conducted online
  •  The WGSS sponsored discussion group, to be convened by Vice-Chair Heather Tompkins, will be the one WGSS Midwinter event held onsite in Seattle.
  • We will have our usual face to face meetings, events and our section program onsite at ALA Annual 2013 in Chicago.


WGSS website: 

  • Our site is a goldmine of information about WGSS–contacts, our resources and projects, newsletters as well as links to follow our blog, facebook and twitter:  http://www.libr.org/wgss/


New board liaison: 

  • Irene Herold is our new ACRL board liaison.  Welcome Irene!


Reminder:

  • ACRL proposals due November 9, 2012 for cyber zed shed presentations, poster sessions, roundtable discussions, and virtual conference webcasts.

WGSS Events @ Annual

07 Jun 2012 at 13:22

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ALA, Annual Program, Conference Information

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WGSS Meeting Schedule for the
2012 ALA Annual Meeting
Anaheim, CA
Date Time Meeting name Location
Saturday
June 23		 1:30-3:30 Introduction to Women’s Issues Hilton Anaheim
Laguna B
4:00-5:30 General Membership Forum Disneyland Hotel
Castle C
6:00-8:00 WGSS Social TBD
Sunday
June 24		 8:00-10:00 Conference Program Planning 2012 Disneyland Hotel
Explorer
8:00-10:00 Conference Program Planning 2013 Disneyland Hotel
Congo
10:30-12:00 All Committees Meeting Disneyland Hotel
Castle A & B
4:00-5:30 Executive Committee Disneyland Hotel
Monorail B & C
Monday
June 25		 8:00-10:00 WGSS Program: Insert Catchy Label Here or the End of Gen Y, Digital Natives and the Millennial Student Myth Anaheim Convention Center
205A

Other meetings of interest

Date Time Meeting name Location
See: Feminist Task Force (FTF) Conference Schedules @ http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules

WGSS Fall 2011 Newsletter

23 Nov 2011 at 09:55

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Newsletter

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The Fall 2011 Newsletter is now available.  Click here to read up on ALA Annual programing, member profiles, and notes from the chair.

 

 

 

REMINDER: WGSS Award Nominations Due 12/2

22 Nov 2011 at 11:30

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ACRL, Contest & Awards

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It’s time to recognize  our colleagues and award their accomplishments! Read on for the criteria. Nomination forms are here: http://libr.org/wss/.
Nominations are due 12/2/11 so get yours in now!

 WGSS Awards

Career Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship Award

Nominees should have demonstrated significant achievements and contributions in one or more of the following areas:

  • Service within the organized profession through ACRL/WSS and/or related organizations;
  • Academic/research library service in the area of women’s studies;
  • Research and publication in areas of academic/research library programs in women’s studies;
  • Planning and implementation of academic/research library programs in women’s studies disciplines of such exemplary quality that they could serve as a model for others.

 

Significant Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship Award

Achievement may be in any area of academic women’s studies librarianship, including, but not limited to:

  • Publication of a monograph, journal article,Web site, or media project;
  • Talk or other presentation at a nationally recognized conference;
  • Innovations in women’s studies librarianship, including, but not limited to instruction;
  • Development of an exemplary program, collection, digitization project, or access tool to serve women’s studies students and/or faculty;
  • Significant creative and innovative contribution to the work of the ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section.

 

 

 

WGSS Midwinter meetings–room assignments

10 Nov 2011 at 07:21

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ACRL, ALA, Conference Information

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Here is the 2012 Midwinter Meeting schedule (Dallas, 1/20-1/24), with room assignments.
There will be an offsite social on Saturday night at 6pm, location tba.
Thanks to Megan Griffin, our section name abbreviation is now updated to WGSS  in the schedule!

Shirley Olofson Memorial Award: funding opportunity

10 Oct 2011 at 09:17

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ALA, Contest & Awards

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Are you looking for funds to help pay for your trip to ALA’s 2012 Annual Conference in Anaheim?

 

Apply by Monday, December 12, 2011 for the NMRT Shirley Olofson Memorial Award and you may receive a $1000 check to help defray the cost of attendance!

 

Applicants must:

  1. Be a member of ALA and NMRT
  2. Be active in the library profession
  3. Show promise for activity in the area of professional development
  4. Have a valid financial need
  5. Have attended no more than five ALA annual conferences

 

To apply, please visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/initiatives/applyforfunds/shirleyolofson.cfm

 

Please e-mail Holly Cole Okuhara (holly.okuhara@gmail.com) if you have any additional questions.

Reminder: Fall 2011 Newsletter

04 Oct 2011 at 10:57

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Newsletter

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Submissions are still needed for the Fall 2011 newsletter. We would especially like to hear from committee chairs with reports from annual (even if there’s no formal report to submit, please go ahead and just drop your editors a note letting us know not to be on the lookout for a report). We would also like to hear about the WGSS poster sessions and the annual program – so if anyone could submit a quick write-up, 50-100 words or so, this would be great information to share with your colleagues.

 

Overall, here are some suggestions for what can be submitted:

  • Committee reports/updates
  • Reports about the WGSS co-sponsored annual program
  • Information about the WGSS poster sessions
  • Where was the social? How was it?
  • WGSS awards & winners
  • Have you recently published something, presented at a different conference (ACRL perhaps?), won an award? Think about sending us a couple sentences about your achievements so they can be shared with other members.
  • Want to highlight something happening at midwinter?

 

We would also really like to highlight some of our members! Don’t be shy! Send us a brief write-up which includes:

- Your name & education

- Job title & 1-2 sentences about your current position

- What books you’ve read recently

- What you enjoy doing in your spare time

- Why you joined WGSS

- A picture we can include in your profile

 

Please send submissions by October 5th to Beth Strickland (stricklb@umich.edu) and/or Lea Engle (lengle@library.tamu.edu)

Fall 2011 Newsletter – Call for Submissions

12 Sep 2011 at 12:41

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Current Events, Newsletter

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This is an open call for members to send in anything which you’d like to share with your colleagues, but the editors are encouraging individuals to submit write-ups about their experiences at ALA Annual.

Suggestions for submissions about Annual include:

  • Committee reports/updates
  • Reports about the WGSS co-sponsored annual program
  • Information about the WGSS poster sessions
  • Where was the social? How was it?
  • WGSS awards & winners

Other submission suggestions include:

  • Have you recently published something, presented at a different conference (ACRL perhaps?), won an award? Think about sending us a couple sentences about your achievements so they can be shared with other members.
  • Want to highlight something happening at midwinter?

 

Are you a new member? A maybe not so new member?   We want to hear from you! (and introduce/highlight you in the newsletter).
Send us a brief write-up which includes:

-          Your name & education

-          Job title & 1-2 sentences about your current position

-          What books you’ve read recently

-          What you enjoy doing in your spare time

-          Why you joined WGSS

-          A picture we can include in your profile

 

Please send submissions by October 5th to Beth Strickland (stricklb@umich.edu) and/or Lea Engle (lengle@library.tamu.edu)

Stanford and Ms. Magazine Essay Contest

12 Sep 2011 at 12:30

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Contest & Awards, Current Events

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Join the conversation on the future of feminism in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Ms. magazine. Stanford University and Ms. magazine invite you to enter an essay contest.

Check out 40 iconic Ms. covers from four decades of feminist reporting.

Write a 150-word essay that reflects on how it captured an era or moment, or how it may have shaped your own life.

Ten $100 cash prizes will be awarded for the best short essays.

Entries will be judged on originality, vision, awareness of feminist issues and quality of expression.

Winning essays will be displayed alongside the Ms. covers on the Stanford campus in January 2012.

The essay contest is open to everyone.

Contest runs from August 1–October 15, 2011.

Click here to learn more:  (http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/msat40/).

Join the discussion: Women’s World Cup & Title IX

18 Jul 2011 at 12:16

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Current Events

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soccer girls

Women’s World Cup, Title IX And What It Means For Girls by Cynthia Kounaris, on Huffington Post.

“You can debate Title IX all you want but you’d be hard-pressed to argue against the looks on little girls’ faces when they talk about what the US Women’s Soccer team means to them…”

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