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.
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:
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
The Women’s Studies Section will hold its second annual Research Poster Session during our General Membership Meeting at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago on Saturday, July 11, 2009, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. The forum seeks to provide an opportunity to present newly completed research or work in progress. Both beginning and established researchers are welcome to apply. Participants may receive collaborative feedback and recommendations for future publishing and/or new initiatives.
The potential scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, teaching methods, instruction, information technology, collection development, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration with academic faculty. For research ideas, see the Women’s Studies Research Agenda.
(http://www.libr.org/wss/committees/research/resagenda.html)
Attendees at the forum will find an arena for discussion and networking with their colleagues interested in related issues and trends in the profession.
The committee will use a blind review process.
Selection criteria:
1. Significance of the topic. Priority will be given to Women’s Studies Section members and/or women’s studies topics.
2. Originality of the project.
Proposal submission instructions:
1. Proposals should include:
Title of the proposal
Proposal narrative (no more than 2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt. font)
Name of applicant(s)
Affiliation
Applicant address(es), Phone number(s), Email address(es), Fax number(s)
Are you a member of Women’s Studies Section? ___Yes ___ No
If you would like to become a member, go to:
http://www.libr.org/wss/join.html
2. NOTE: Submission deadline: March 23, 2009
3. Proposals should be emailed to: Cindy Ingold. Chair, Research Committee
(cingold@illinois.edu)
4. The chair will notify the applicants by April 27, 2009
Dolores Fidishun, Ed. D.
Head Librarian
Penn State Great Valley School of
Graduate Professional Studies
30 E. Swedesford Rd.
Malvern, PA 19355
Phone: 610-648-3227
Fax: 610-725-5223
Email: dxf19@psu.edu
Dolores’ List of CFPs blog
http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxf19/blogs/dolores_list_of_cfps/