Today's Topics: 1. Reminder: 2017 Midwinter Symposium Topics (Elaine Franco) 2. PARS Promoting Preservation Interest Group at ALA Annual Orlando (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 On Behalf Of Charles Wilt Dear Colleagues, I'm chair of the 2017 ALCTS President's Program Committee. The President's Program will be held Monday, June 26, during then President Vicki Sipe's tenure. We certainly have our work cut for us to follow Norm Medeiros' outstanding program. The Committee is working now to identify an outstanding speaker. The Committee has a second task to complete, planning the 2017 ALCTS Midwinter Symposium. The Symposium will take place on Friday, January 20th, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta. Past Symposia have focused on broad issues affecting libraries and librarianship. This past Midwinter Symposium was an excellent addition, "Re-envisioning "Technical Services" to Transform Libraries: Identifying Leadership and Talent Management Practices." The Committee has decided to expand its search for a topic by asking ALCTS members for your input into potential topics for the Symposium. Julie Reese has created a form for you to make suggestions. When you click on the link, you'll be asked for the topic, working title, brief description, speaker ideas and your contact information. The topic could be one you are interested in learning more about or one that is affecting libraries now and into the future. If you are attending the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando and as you navigate various programs and Interest Group sessions, please be thinking whether any of those could become the Midwinter Symposium. Please remember, that the Symposium is an all day event, so any topic you suggest would have to fill that time. Here is the link: https://alctsprogram.wufoo.com/forms/r19nsnz90qscfv5/ The deadline for your idea is July 5th which will give you time to suggest a topic once you return from Annual. The Committee appreciates your participation and looks forward to receiving many excellent ideas. Sincerely, Charles Wilt Chair, 2017 ALCTS President's Program Committee [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------ Message: 2 On Behalf Of Katherine Risseeuw Please join the Promoting Preservation Interest Group on Sunday, June 26, 10:30-11:30am, for presentations and a discussion about nontraditional preservation projects and ways to better involve preservation professionals. The co-chairs will present an array of projects from archives and libraries around the country who are using nontraditional means to talk about preservation and access, specifically in public libraries and small community organizations. We will highlight how the importance of personal digital archiving, oral histories, and local history are successfully translated to communities through a variety of projects involving book arts, hiking, folk music festivals, and public DIY digitization. The projects specifically covered include: * Indian Neck Folk Festival's efforts in audio preservation education. * Appalachian Mountain Club's preservation grants and extreme outreach of hiking to mountain properties that hold collections. * Chair Community Art Center's "Chair City Oral History Book Series" that involves community members (including youth) in printing and binding regional oral histories. * DC Public Library's MemoryLab, a center for patrons to digitize personal histories. We hope to generate a conversation about how and why these projects fall outside of the "traditional" preservation community that is represented at PARS. This discussion was born out of the difficulties encountered while trying to line up speakers for this session. Those involved in these and other similar projects are typically not ALA attendees, especially PARS-affiliated professionals. How do we become more involved in these initiatives? Is there a role for us? How can we share our knowledge and skills with organizations embarking on preservation-based programming? Sunday, June 26 10:30-11:30am OCCC W202A We are also soliciting nominations for a new PPIG co-chair for 2017-2018. Thanks, Katie and Eva, Co-Chairs ------------------------------------------------ Katie Risseeuw Preservation Librarian Northwestern University Libraries Northwestern University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 847-491-8654 phone Eva Grizzard Preservation Specialist Northeast Document Conservation Center<http://www.nedcc.org/> 100 Brickstone Square | Andover, MA 01810 P: 978.470.1010 | F: 978.475.6021 ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 50, Issue 22 ************************************ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
