Please join your fellow WSS members this Saturday, July 11 from 6:00-8:00pm-ish at BIN 36 wine bar (339 N. Dearborn near the House of Blues) for great conversation, delish appetizers, and all-around good times. We’ll be walking up there as a group after the General Membership Forum, but feel free to drop by as your schedule allows.
For our other events and meetings in Chicago, please see our conference information web page.
An Author among us!
Congratulations Lauren Pressley. Lauren wrote a book, “So You Want To Be A Librarian”
http://laurenpressley.com/library/?p=922
BTW, she will be signing copies at ALA booth 1637, Exhibits Hall,
McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago at 10am, Sunday, July 12, 2009.
The GLBT Round Table has posted some recommended bookstores, restaurants, bars, and community resources of potential interest to attendees of the conference in Chicago. Their newsletter is here: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/news/newsletters/summer09.pdf
From ALA:
ALA is paying for WiFi at McCormick Place during the ALA Conference. So it will be available at no charge in the public areas and meeting rooms in the building and the Hyatt Conference Center (not complimentary at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel, however).
As WiFi systems are not as reliable as wired we received this message from the building you might want to pass on to whomever you think prudent.
The following applications and Internet activities will NOT function and/or may disrupt other attendee and exhibitor access:
From ACRL:
In May, the leaders of the sections, chapters, and division-level committees reported the activities and programs that their unit carried out from September 2008 through May 2009 in support of the ACRL Strategic Plan 2020. This year, 11 committees, 14 sections, 1 interest group, and 29 chapters completed the report. The sections and interest group reports are now posted in the Communities of Practice Assembly community in ALA Connect at http://connect.ala.org/node/76789. This report should be shared with your leadership teams and distributed to your membership.
Announced recently by ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels:
First the good news: Free WiFi will be available in meeting rooms throughout the convention center, and funds have been made available to prototype a recommendation of the electronic participation task force. Wireless access will also be provided for committee and board meeting rooms, selected conference hotels and/or meeting rooms and the convention center, enabling members to utilize laptop computer applications to provide for remote participation by board and committee members not able to attend.
Now the bad news: The cost of providing wireless in the meeting rooms at the four major conference hotels would be $270,000, which ALA simply cannot afford.
Many ALA members have been pressing for WiFi to enable people who are unable to attend ALA conference to participate virtually, but Fiels said providing internet access at hotel prices “is not sustainable as a model.” ALA will continue to investigate and negotiate for future conferences.
Program Schedule
| Date | Time | Meeting name | Location |
| Saturday July 11 |
1:30-2:30 | Introduction to Women’s Issues | McCormick Place West W-176b |
| 3:30-5:30 | General Membership Forum | Palmer House Salon V | |
| Sunday July 12 |
8:00-10:00 | Conference Planning Committee 2009 | Palmer House LaSalle 4 |
| 8:00-10:00 | Conference Planning Committee 2010 | Palmer House Sandburg 2 | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Awards (closed) | Palmer House Clark 09 | |
| 10:30-12:00 | All Committees Meeting | Palmer House Wabash Parlor | |
| 3:30-5:30 | Executive Board & Leadership Orientation | Palmer House Salon VIII | |
| Monday July 13 |
8:00-12:00 | Program: Gaming, Film, and Ephemera: Women’s Studies and Academic Collections
(The Awards Presentation will run from 8:00-8:30; program begins at 8:30) |
McCormick Place West W-192b |
Other meetings of interest
| Date | Time | Meeting name | Location | |
| See also: Feminist Task Force (FTF) Conference Schedules @ http://ftfinfo.wikispaces.com/Conference+Schedules | ||||
Gaming, Film, and Ephemera: Women’s Studies and Academic Collections
Monday, July 13, 2009
8:00-8:30: WSS Awards Presentation
8:30-12:00: WSS Program
Location: McCormick Place West W-192b
The panel will address mixed archival collections at the Schlesinger Library, the UIUC Gaming collection, and experiences conducting research on African American women and film. This program will address collection management and research strategies related to popular culture collections in academic libraries. Many collections directly relate to the history of women, gender, and culture, but they involve complex issues of access and preservation. Speakers will consider questions of how academic institutions collect and maintain these materials, as well as the experience of how researchers access and use them in scholarship.
Learn more at: http://libr.org/wss/conferences/2009program.html