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MLS student Qwame Nelloms, gives us her take on the 2019 Texas Library Association annual conference held in Austin, TX.
Glad everyone is safe!
Thank you, to our Web content manager/developer Adam Chavez for sharing these photos during the tornado warning last night.
Take a look at the lowest level of Discovery Park if you have never been in the basement.
We’re hopeful this is it for the rest of the season. 🤞🏽
If you're planning on attending the CIMA/SSA joint annual meeting, don't forget to register for the conference by May 6!
Registration for the pre-conference wor...kshops happening on Wednesday, May 15th will remain open after May 6 as long as space is available. The workshops include:
9:00 - 5:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: SAA DAS Course- Tool Selection and Management: Finding the Right Tool for the Job, UA Main Library, Rm 112A
8:00 - 12:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials Protocols 101: How to Start the Conversation at your Organization, Madera Room
2:00 - 4:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: How to Manage a Diverse Staff: A Workshop Presented by SSA Diversity Committee, Madera Room
The workshops Protocols 101 and How to Manage a Diverse Staff are free. Donations will be accepted to defray cost.
Register here!: https://2019cima.southwestarchivists.org/registration/
★Job Alert★ Assistant Law Librarian in Denton County. No MLS required.
❋Original cataloging!❋
To make his enormous library more usable, Hernando Colón paid an army of readers to create short summaries of his books. That catalog has just been discovered i...n a manuscript collection in Denmark. It's 2000 pages long and almost a foot thick, and there's a project underway to transcribe the work and make it available to to the public. https://n.pr/2W9ISd2
See MoreCongratulations on your win, ASIS&T!
We won the Outstanding Student Organization Event Award for last year’s Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium! This year’s symposium is a week away ...and is going to be even better with more presentations, more posters, and an incredible keynote. Go to MIRS.unt.edu to register now. We can’t wait to see you on April 27th at #MIRS2019
See More➠Archivists: Job Alert!
Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas is hiring a Digital Collections and Metadata Librarian. Apply today!
It is with deep sympathy we at the College of Information honor the passing of Dr. Don Cleveland. No services have been planned at the present time. A memorial ...will likely take place in the fall semester.
Use the following link to read the full letter from his wife Professor Ana Cleveland.
https://ci.unt.edu/professor-emeritus-donald-cleveland
#Notredame's art getting a new home at the Louvre.
Thinking of our colleagues in Spokane. High-quality library programs have a positive correlation with student achievement. #librariesmatter #anecessitynotaluxury
The Washington Department of Corrections partially rescinded a ban on sending books to prison inmates, though the nonprofit Books to Prisoners Seattle still considers the new policy "insufficient."
➥Future archivists, check out this paid summer internship opportunity! The Dallas Morning News is hiring archives assistants to help them digitize materials.
Happy birthday, Beverly Cleary! #classic #NationalLibraryWeek #103yearsold
Happy National Library Workers Day! Take time today to thank library workers for the hard work they do every day to transform lives and communities. Submit a star at: http://ala-apa.org/nlwd/
#NLWD19 #NationalLibraryWeek
#MIRS2019 registration is now open! This going to be an amazing day of presentations from information scholars in various fields. Registration is free! (And if you’re anything like us, you want to know that breakfast and lunch will be provided 😇) Go to MIRS.unt.edu to register now!
★Call for proposals!★
CTLC invites you to submit a proposal for the 7th annual Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference, happening on Friday, August 2, 2019 at TWU