ALAO Newsletter: March 2011

The latest edition of the ALAO Newsletter is available! Featured this month:

• President's report
• ACRL Scholarly Communication Workshop
• Interest Groups Spring Workshops
• ALAO Annual Conference Call for Proposals
• ALAO Grant Opportunities

Note that registration for the Distance Learning Interest Group's (DLIG) spring workshop, INOV8: Revitalizing Distance Learning, scheduled for Friday, May 13th, is now open.

"This year’s workshop will focus on ways to revitalize your approach to distance learning by featuring freely available technologies, successful strategies for connecting to our students and faculty, and tips for librarianship in learning management systems."

For more information on the DLIG workshop, visit their events page or view the brochure (PDF).

*Post originated on Library Cloud: 3/16/11

ALAO 2011: Call for Proposals

Constant Change, Constant Opportunity
ALAO Annual Conference 2011
Call for Proposals

The Academic Library Association of Ohio
ALAO *37th Annual Conference*
November 3rd and 4th, 2011
Hilton Toledo Hotel, Toledo, OH

Presentation and Poster Session Deadline: April 8th, 2011

The ALAO Conference Planning Committee invites you to submit proposals for presentations, 25-minute spotlight sessions, or poster sessions that bring new ideas or approaches useful for academic libraries. This year’s conference theme, “ Constant Change, Constant Opportunity,” looks at the challenges facing academic libraries as budgetary, institutional, occupational, and technological changes cause us to reflect and adapt how we provide services to our users and communities.

Presentations may take the form of contributed papers, demonstrations, workshops, research, or panel discussions. Spotlight sessions can be “lightning round” style programs, multimedia slides, or other presentation techniques that cover a subject or issue that can be dealt with in a 25-minute time frame. Poster sessions should embrace the conference theme and present original ideas, innovative solutions to problems, library-related projects, or creative approaches to dealing with change in today’s academic libraries.

• Support Staff Presenter Grant Form


• Student Presenter Grant Form

This year we have available both a Support Staff Presenter Grant and a Student Presenter Grant. Further details on both grants are available at the URLs above. For more information regarding the Call for Proposals for presentations, spotlight sessions, or poster sessions, contact the Conference Planning Committee members listed below:

Katie Gibson – Presentations and Spotlight Sessions
Email: gibsonke at muohio.edu

Masha Misco – Poster Sessions
Email: stepanm at muohio.edu

For more details, proposal forms , and presentation grant forms, please check the conference website: http://www.alaoweb.org/events.

We look forward to receiving your proposals for the 2011 ALAO Annual Conference!

2011 ALAO Conference Date

Check your calendar! The ALAO Conference date was recently changed; the following email was sent out this morning via the ALAO members list.

The 2011 ALAO Annual Conference has a new date, but the same advertised location:

ALAO Conference ~ November 3-4, 2011 ~ Toledo Hilton Hotel

The date was put back one week in order to avoid coinciding with the Ohio Library Council conference. A pre-conference will take place on November 3rd.

We hope to see you Toledo (where the modern ice-cream scoop was invented!) http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100909/ART03/9080330

Brian Hickam
Chair, Conference Program Committee

ALAO Research Grant Application

The Academic Library Association of Ohio's (ALAO) Research and Publications Committee (RPC) is currently accepting applications for the 2011 ALAO Research Applications Grant.

"The Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) seeks to promote research, and each year the ALAO Executive Board may award up to $500.00 to support and encourage research projects proposed by ALAO members. Both ongoing and new research projects are considered. Grants are intended to help in funding such incremental research costs as the organization of data, the hiring of interviewers or other assistants, charges for computer time, and modest travel costs associated with research. Grants may not be used for purchase of equipment. Grants are limited to investigations related to issues in libraries, librarianship, and information science and technology." -- ALAO, RPC Research Grant

The deadline for grant application materials is January 31, 2011. Please note, applicants must be current ALAO members to qualify for this grant. For additional information regarding this grant, visit the ALAO Research Grant Application web page.

Please send completed application materials to Mark Eddy, Chair of the Research & Publications Committee: mark.eddy(at)case.edu.

* Originally posted @ Library Cloud, 1/6/11

CMCIG @ ALAO Conference

ALAO's 36th Annual Conference is October 29th, at the Crowne Plaza Columbus North. The Curriculum Materials Center Interest Group - CMCIG - is sponsoring the following session in Salon D at 10:10 am, we hope to see you there!

"Choose to Read Ohio: Read Together, Read Ohio, Read For Life"

Overview: Choose to Read Ohio (CTRO) is a flexible framework that spotlights Ohio authors and promotes reading across Ohio. The State Library of Ohio, in partnership with Ohioana Library Association, developed this statewide initiative to connect Ohioans of all ages through the experience of sharing literature by authors native to, residing in, or associated with Ohio. CTRO is intended to be adaptable for use in classrooms, libraries, bookstores, by book discussion groups, by families, and by other groups in various community settings.

The newly-announced 2011 booklist includes 20 titles by notable Ohio authors for adults and youth. Groups of readers select books from the booklist to read and discuss together. Toolkits provide support materials, including discussion questions and extension projects. Participation may be as simple as a class or student group selecting a title to discuss, or as elaborate as a multi-agency community partnership incorporating educational programming and special events. Education classes will want to consider using CTRO titles in student teaching experiences and other collaborations with K-12 schools. CTRO provides excellent opportunities to make connections with your surrounding community.

Join us for an introduction to the CTRO framework, information about possible funding opportunities, and a showcase of successful CTRO projects in academic settings.

Janet Ingraham Dwyer (State Library of Ohio)
Amy Korpieski (Clark State Community College)
Julie McDaniel (Urbana University)
Ann M. Raney (University of Dayton)