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Applications are now being sought for the ALAO Diversity Scholarship.

Please complete the application form by Monday, April 6, 2015.   

Details are posted on the Diversity Committee webpage.

The Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) Conference Planning Committee is pleased to announce our call for proposals for the 2015 ALAO conference, which will be held on Friday, November 20th at the Nationwide Hotel & Conference Center in Lewis Center, Ohio.  Our theme this year will be "Cultivating Leadership: Preparing Academic Libraries for the Future" and we welcome proposals from a wide variety of library practitioners.  For more information and submission guidelines, check out the attached PDF or head to the conference website. 

If you already have a great idea for a break-out session or a poster, please CLICK HERE for the online submission form!

The deadline for submitting proposals for BOTH break-out session presentations and poster sessions is Friday, March 27th.

If you have questions, please contact Shelly Miller at program@alaoweb.org.

ALAO Colleagues,

 

Are you looking for a leadership opportunity?  Would you like to get involved in professional service for an ACRL chapter?  Or, perhaps you have a colleague who would be a perfect match for ALAO.  If so, please consider nominating yourself, or someone else, for the ALAO Board.  Elections will take place in March and successful candidates will take office at the ALAO Board Retreat in the summer of 2015.  Come join a fantastic group of Ohio librarians! 

 

By now you might be asking, what does the ALAO Board do? Well, here’s a taste:

 

We strive to advance academic library services in Ohio and we provide opportunities for education and growth for library personnel.  In a nutshell that means we plan spring workshops and an annual conference that focus on innovative topics and showcase Ohio academic librarians, provide scholarships and awards, and maintain 8 diverse interest groups.

 

What would I have to do as a Board Member?

 

•      Perform the duties described for your elected position – see the Procedure’s Manual for a list of duties
•      Attend the annual two-day retreat (usually in June/July of 2015; dates to be determined)
•      Attend 4 Board meetings per year (usually on Fridays, at OhioNET)

 

So, you think you’ll give it a try? Great!  Let me tell you what positions will be on the ballot this spring:

 

Vice President/President Elect

Treasurer

Public Relations/Outreach Coordinator

Board Member at Large (3 positions)

 

 

How do you get nominated? 

 

Just fill out this online nomination form. The deadline to submit has been extended to Wednesday, February 25, 2015.

 

If you have questions, please feel free to contact me or another member of the Nominating Committee. 

 

Betsy Blankenship, Ohio State Marion/Marion Technical College

Eileen Theodore-Shusta, Ohio University

Laura Ponikvar, Cleveland Institute of Art

Marcus Ladd, Miami University

Katy Mathuews, Shawnee State University

 

Cheers!

 

Betsy L. Blankenship

Director/Head Librarian

Library

The Ohio State University at Marion

Marion Technical College

1469 Mt. Vernon Ave.

Marion, Ohio 43302

740-725-6231

 

Past-President, Academic Library Association of Ohio

2014-2015

Workshop:  April 16, 2014, at the State Library of Ohio

Deadline for proposals:  February 13

We invite you to share innovative practices, experience, and success with your colleagues from academic libraries in Ohio and beyond at the second annual Assessment Interest Group (AIG) Spring Workshop, Communicating Library Value through Assessment.
 
Papers and demonstrations are welcome. Please submit title and abstract of your proposal in an MS Word or PDF file. In the abstract please include primary target audience, format, and learning objectives. Limit to 250 words. Exclude the name of your institution and any personal names in the abstract. Proposals will be blind reviewed by the AIG Planning Committee.

 All presenters must register for and attend the workshop. Registration costs for the workshop will be waived for presenters.
 
Proposals for presentations should be submitted to the ALAO AIG Co-Chairs, Sarah Murphy, murphy.465@osu.edu, and Mandy Shannon, mandy.shannon@wright.edu. Applicants will be notified by February 20, 2014.

Escaping eBook Purgatory!  Proposals due by Feb 13, 2015

 
Workshop date: May 29, 2015 at OHIONET
 
Workshop theme: Libraries’ strategies for getting their ebook records under control.
 
Possible presentation, panel, or lightening round topics include:
·      How and/or why you are cataloging ebooks
·      How ebook cataloging differs from print
·      What your ebook workflows look like and how they flow
·      Ways you handle ebook record loads
·      Solutions and strategies to common problems with technical services for ebooks
·      Acquisitions to cataloging workflow for ebooks
·      Other ideas?
 
Please submit your proposal in 300 words or less totedsig2015@uakron.edu by Feb 13, 2015

Include your name and contact email, and type of presentation (30-minute presentation, panel, or lightening round session)

UPDATE:  Jan. 16, 2015.  Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for more mentors.  We had more responses than we will be able to place, but this will give us more flexibility in our pairing.

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The ALAO Professional Development Committee has completed our first pass with pairing mentees and mentors in the new ALAO Mentoring Program Pilot. We have discovered that we have about a dozen more mentees than mentors. Potential MENTORS, please help us out. We need volunteers for every area, including mentoring library school students, help with publishing, peer mentoring, etc.

This is an official Call for MORE Mentors. Please consider seriously giving back to the profession by filling out this form. (google doc)
 
Many thanks for giving the serious consideration to helping other librarians throughout the state.

Truly Yours,

Julia Gustafson
Chair, ALAO Professional Development Committee
Research & Outreach Librarian
The College of Wooster Libraries
330-263-2315
jgustafson@wooster.edu

Congratulations to John Burke and Beth Tumbleson of Miami University Middletown, who were jointly nominated for their vast contributions to distance librarianship. They frequently co-present at national, state and regional conferences on topics that include marketing embedded librarian services, working within your institution’s LMS, and other hot topics in e-learning.

Additionally, John and Beth have co-authored several well-cited journal articles and, in 2013, they published Embedding Librarianship in Learning Management Systems: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (ISBN 1555708625). Whether you are just getting started in distance librarianship or you are looking for ways to streamline your services, you’ll find inspiration and guidance inside.

We look forward to their presentation at our DLIG Spring Workshop on Friday, May 15th at the Voice of America Learning Center in West Chester, Ohio (just north of Cincinnati). If you have ideas for presentations or would like to submit a proposal to present at the workshop, please contact one of the DLIG CoChairs at the emails below or at ohiodlig@gmail.com by January 31st. Topic ideas include virtual instruction, implementing new technology tools in distance librarianship, instructional design, assessment, and whatever is working (or didn’t work) for you! Workshop registration will open at the beginning of March, so stay tuned!

Your DLIG Co-Chairs,

Carrie Girton (girtonc@miamioh.edu) & Kathleen Pickens (kathleen.pickens@cincinnatistate.edu )

The Academic Library Association of Ohio is pleased to announce that the 2015 Spring Support Staff Interest Group Workshop will take place on May 20, 2015 on the Lancaster campus of Ohio University.

The planning committee is currently accepting proposals for presentations that will meet the varied professional development needs of academic library support staff.

Proposals are welcome on all topics. Examples might be: managing student workers, participating in ALA's Support Staff Certification program, developing library outreach programs, building professional networks, surviving stress in the workplace, and working successfully with supervisors.

Presentations will last 50 minutes. Proposals should be 200-300 words in length. A brief bio of the presenter(s) should also be included.  The SSIG Planning Committee will select from the proposals submitted. The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, January 24, 2015.

Please submit your proposals HERE<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kj6nB7yYesa27LFk1ICZ-yeMxtx791XIVu4oW5SNfjI/viewform>

For questions, please contact Myra Justus at 513-569-4690<tel:513-569-4690> or myra.justus@cincinnatistate.edu<mailto:myra.justus@cincinnatistate.edu>

Do you need research funds for an upcoming project?  The Research & Publications Committee of ALAO invites you to apply for the 2015 ALAO Research Grant.

 

As an ALAO member you have the opportunity to apply for up to $2,000 in grant funding in support of your research.  Our 2015 research grant program is under way, so apply today!

 

What's needed

 

Include the following in your application

1. Completed ALAO Research Grant Application form

2. A written proposal of no more than two pages, single-spaced.

3. A current vita from the named applicant(s).

4. A budget sheet.

Please combine all four application components into one MS Word document. You can copy & paste the grant application form into your Word document.  

 

For more information about the ALAO Research Grant Application form, award eligibility, application procedures and deadlines, see the 2015 grant page:  http://alaoweb.org/committees/researchpub/2015-research-grant.

 

Send completed applications to Heidi Gauder, Chair of the Research & Publications Committee, at alaorpcgrants@gmail.com as an email attachment. The deadline to apply has been extended to Feb. 1, 2015.

 

You must be a current member of ALAO in order to apply for the research grant.

 

Questions? Please contact Heidi directly at hgauder1@udayton.edu.

 

ALAO Collection Management Interest Group Invites Contributions for the Spring 2015 CMIG Workshop:  "What's Working? What's Been Tried?  What Have We Learned?

 The Workshop Planning Committee invites presentation proposals from the following topic areas:

1.    Management, selection and weeding in an electronic environment.  
Presentations in this topic area might focus on single title selection practice, weeding of electronic collections, evaluation of use statistics, citation analysis and deselection criteria for ebooks or journals.

2.    Marketing the library’s collections.
Presentations in this topic area could cover innovative ways to market the library’s collections both print and electronic to your campus community (faculty, staff and students), marketing to particular user groups (i.e. international students) and using vendor-supplied material.

3.    Nontraditional “acquisitions” purchasing.  
Presentations in this topic area might include funding for digitization, purchasing datasets, library as publisher and covering author fees.  

Proposals may address emerging trends, report on recent research, or demonstrate new services, projects, and tools.   Each session will last 45 minutes.  Please include time for questions following your presentation.

Proposals will be selected by blind review. 
Submit the following to cleary.110@osu.edu  by January 30, 2015.

1.    Title of presentation
2.    Abstract (approximately 250 words)
3.    Names, affiliations and contact information for all presenters
4.    Primary contact for presenters

Presenters will be notified of proposal acceptance by January 26, 2015.  For further information, please contact Calvin Cleary, Committee Member, CMIG (cleary.110@osu.edu).

updated: 1/14/15 A.Ricker