The primary purpose of the ALA Midwinter Meeting is, you guessed it -- Meetings! Meetings for various committees and projects -- the sky's the limit and you know how we librarians love meetings and committees.
If anything interesting happens in any of those meetings, I'll be sure to blog about it. A few, such as the APALA Executive Board meeting, will be fairly straight forward and uninteresting, so I'll probably spare you the details, but the Council Meetings can get a little juicy -- more on Council tomorrow. Tonight, now that the Day of Diversity is over, I'm headed to that APALA Executive Board meeting to report on what I've done with the 2 committees I Co-Chair, Finance & Fundraising and Family Literacy (which administers the Talk Story program and grants).
Hooray!
Also -- just a note. If any of you are interested in joining APALA (the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association), you don't need to be APA and membership is only $30/year for librarians and $15/year for other staff. Melvin already joined. You know you want to, too. LMK if you want more information!
Yes join us!
ReplyDeleteWe also voted to extend the $15 membership to Part-Time librarians. It should be effective soon...
ReplyDeleteThere are 5 total ethnic caucuses in case your interests lie elsewhere (or you can be like some of us and support them all!)
There are:
BCALA (Black Caucus of ALA)
CALA (Chinese American)
AILA (American Indian)
REFORMA (Spanish Speaking)
APALA (Asian/Pacific)