Yearly Archive: 2010

You could be ULS’s Emerging Leader next year!

You could be ULS’s Emerging Leader next year!

I’m pleased to announce that ULS will be sponsoring an ALA Emerging Leader again this year! If you’re applying to the program and you’re a ULS member, be sure to select ULS under “sponsorships” and you could receive $1000 in travel support for next year’s conferences, plus a guaranteed committee...

Read all about it!

Read all about it!

If you haven’t seen it, check out ACRL Insider for Wendy Girven’s great post about our section! Wendy’s a recent Emerging Leader and a member of ULS’s membership committee. Thanks, Wendy!

Volunteer for a ULS committee

Volunteer for a ULS committee

If you’re interested in becoming more active in ACRL, consider volunteering for a ULS committee! The volunteer form is available at http://www.acrl.org/volunteer, and it will be available until February 15. In addition to our usual list of committees, we’ve just added three new options to expand your opportunities to participate...

Your thoughts about the ULS Social @ 2010 ALA Annual

Your thoughts about the ULS Social @ 2010 ALA Annual

Our social in Boston seemed to go well! Of course, you never really know until you ask, so I’m asking: 1. If you went, do you have any feedback? 2. Even if you didn’t go, what are your thoughts about it? 3. Should we do it again? If so, where...

“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement”

“Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement”

The “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement” project, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is currently surveying librarians on a number of plans for future innovative publications and modes of scholarly communication in the broadly conceived area of...

2010 ALA Program: New Campus Partnership Roles for Librarians

2010 ALA Program: New Campus Partnership Roles for Librarians

NEW CAMPUS PARTNERSHIP ROLES FOR LIBRARIANS Going Beyond the Director –             What is the difference between outreach and partnership? –             What are some new campus initiatives ripe for librarian partnerships? –             What potential campus relationships have we not pursued in the past? Come join the discussion of these and related...

2010 ULS events in Boston

2010 ULS events in Boston

Hi all, I thought it might make life easier to have the ULS-only piece of the Midwinter schedule posted here. These are the official meetings (pdf). The only additional event I know of that’s not listed here is our social at Cheers Boston on Saturday at 5-7pm. Are you coming?...