ILA/ACRL Spring Conference 2007 - Call for Presenation Proposals
Work Worth Doing: The Value of Academic Libraries for the 21st
Century
March 23, 2007 – Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Deadline for Receipt of Proposals: December 8, 2006
Pamela Snelson is the 2006-2007 ACRL President and the keynote speaker
for this conference. The focus for her administration is “communicating
the value of academic libraries.” With this theme in mind:
You are invited to submit proposals for presentations to share your “worth”.
Do you have ideas emphasizing the value of library activities to our campus
communities that you would like to share with your colleagues? The conference
theme is intentionally inclusive of all work done in academic libraries.
We hope to receive proposals covering the wide variety of topics so that
the conference will appeal to academic library personnel across the state.
Sessions are one hour and we recommend that presentations be approximately
45-50 minutes with 10-15 minutes for questions.
To submit your proposal, please e-mail the following documents by December
8, 2006 to:
Joyce Meldrem
ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Planning Committee Member
joyce.meldrem@loras.edu
a) one copy of the proposal
form [Word document]
b) one copy of your summary (200 – 350 word description of your
presentation) with your name
c) one copy of the summary with your name &/or institution name omitted.
ILA/ACRL Voting Results
Vice-President/President-Elect: Mary Heinzman, St. Ambrose
Secretary Treasurer" Rebecca Funke, DMAC
Member at Large: Duncan Stewart, University of Iowa
Overwhelming approval for establishment of membership dues at $5.00 to begin with the 2007 membership year. - Submitted by Jean Donham
Mentoring Survey
The ILA/ACRL Website offers information on the open access movement and on mentoring programs. To participate in the ILA/ACRL survey on mentoring please visit our mentoring page and toward the middle of that page you’ll find a link to the survey. The URL for the mentoring page is http://www.iowaacrl.org/mentoring/index.html or go directly to the survey: https://survey.uiowa.edu/wsb.dll/158/ila_acrl_mentor.htm.
ILA/ACRL Committee Reports
Awards Committee
Kathy A. Parsons, Iowa State University Chair 2006 (Past President)
Sandra Keist, Grandview College 2006
Carlete Washington-Hoagland, University of Iowa 2006
Joyce Meldrem, Loras College 2007
Sheryl Taylor, Dort College 2007
Two scholarships were awarded to individuals to attend the ILA/ACRL Spring
Conference at the Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa on April 21.
The scholarships covered the registration fee and up to $100 in travel,
hotel, and meal expenses. The scholarship recipients were
Anne Marie Gruber, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Myers Library,
University of Dubuque
Mireill Djenno, Librarian for First Year Experience, Drake University
One scholarship was awarded to an individual to attend the ILA Annual Conference at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs on October 11-13. The scholarship covered the registration fee and up to $150 in travel, hotel, and meal expenses. The scholarship winner was: Rebecca P. Routh, Cataloging Librarian, University of Iowa
The committee completed and submitted to the ILA Awards Committee two documents outlining the conference scholarship awards given each year by ILA/ACRL. The document included a description of each award and its criteria and method of selection. These documents have been approved by the ILA Awards Committee and the ILA Executive Board.
Many thanks to the committee members for their contributions in the selection process of the three 2006 award winners.
Report Submitted by Kathy A. Parsons, 2006 Chair
Directory Committee
The 2006 print directories have been mailed to every person and library with membership in ILA/ACRL as of October 25, 2006.
Report Submitted by Kris Stacy-Bates, 2006 Chair
Electronic Communications Committee
The Committee is investigating alternative hosting arrangements for the ILA/ACRL website. This research has been prompted by an interest of the ILA/ACRL executive board in better using the Web to build and support our member community.
Report Submitted by Ryan Gjerde, 2006 Chair
Membership Committee
We currently have 213 members in the ILA-ACRL. Encourage your colleagues to join if they are not members! One of the great benefits is the chance to attend the spring conference at a reduced rate!
Report Submitted by Mary Heinzman, 2006 Chair
Newsletter Committee
Chair, Amy Paulus, University of Iowa, 2006
Andrea Dinkelman, Iowa State University, 2006
J. Jeffrey Dodd, University of Iowa, 2007
Nancy Bird Luikart, Muscatine Community College, 2007
Veronica McAsey, Briar Cliff University, 2006
Lisa Stock, Des Moines Area Community College, 2007
Ellen Van Waart, Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs Campus,
2007
Barb Weeg, University of Northern Iowa, 2006
The Newsletter Committee produced three issues of the ILA/ACRL Newsletter
in 2006, including the issue you are reading now. A special thanks to
Veronica McAsey for taking over the duties of Chair for the November issue
of the ILA/ACRL Newsletter. We were very successful in gathering information
from many ILA/ACRL libraries about marketing activities for the March
issue. July focused on the Spring ILA/ACRL Conference held in Iowa City
and the November issue focused on the ILA Annual Conference in Council
Bluffs.
The time commitment and contribution by each committee member was tremendous:
gathering information about marketing activities, attending sessions at
both the ILA/ACRL and ILA conferences and writing up reviews of these
sessions, and collecting news from Iowa’s academic libraries! My
greatest thanks go to them as well as to those who contributed their library’s
news and other information.
Report Submitted by Amy Paulus, 2006 Chair
Nominating Committee
Jean Donham (Chair), Cornell College, 2006
Betsy Gardner, Southeastern Community College, 2007
Kathy Magarrell, University of Iowa, 2006
Linda Nelson, Scott Community College, 2007
Janalyn Moss, University of Iowa, 2007
The Nominating Committee worked together to identify candidates for both elected offices and committee appointments. What a committee! All slots were filled. Of course, we had considerable help as a result of receiving 13 volunteer forms from members stepping forward to offer their services to Iowa-ACRL. Brett Cloyd accepted chair responsibilities for Spring Conference Planning Committee, and in September he and his committee members began making plans for the 2007 spring conference in Grinnell. Because this particular committee needs to be formed and active well before January, the executive board supported an informal adjustment in start date for this committee, and the committee has begun work in order to have adequate time fore effective planning. Deadline for return of ballots will be Monday, October 30.
Report Submitted by Jean Donham, 2006 Chair
The sessions at the fall conference went well. The speaker and panel participants were great and I wish we could have spent more time on the topic. I also want to thank the committee members who worked on the topic: Polly Mumma, Des Moines Area Community College; Sandra Kiest, Grandview College; Elizabeth Schau, formerly of Cornell College; and William Weare, formerly of Central College.
Report Submitted by Barbara Robb, 2006 Chair
Spring Conference Committee
Committee Membership: Stephen Dew (Chair), Mary McInroy, Steve Ostrem, Brett Cloyd, Rachel Carreon,, Kate Hess, Andi Beckendorf, Joyce Meldrem, Janet Pine, Mary Jo Langhorne, Denise Rehmke
Theme: High School to Higher Ed: Helping Learners Make the Leap
Location: The Iowa Memorial Union (IMU), Iowa City
Date: April 21, 2006
Co-Sponsor Iowa Association of School Librarians
Keynote Speaker: Professor David T. Conley, Director of the Center for Educational Policy Research at the University of Oregon. In his keynote presentation, Conley discussed ideas that academic librarians and administrators might use to improve their first-year student programs.
Concurrent Session Presentations
There were three Concurrent Sessions with a total of 12 different presentations.
Registration Fees
The fee was $50 for ILA members, $65 for non-members, and $20 for students.
Income from 201 Attendees
(120 Academic Librarians, 60 School Librarians, 16 Students, & 5 State/Public/Independent
Librarians)
Total Income: $10,055.00
Expenses
IMU Room, Equipment Rentals, Printing, and Food $4,462.66
Speaker Costs:
Honorarium $2,000.00
Travel, Hotel, & Meals $1,136.35
Total Expenses $7,599.01
Profit
Total Profit $2,455.99
Report Submitted by Stephen Dew, 2006 Chair
Treasurer's Report
ILA account
Balance 9/8/06 $3,206.56
Less expenses to 10/12/06 361.00
Balance $2,845.56
Balance at ACRL national
Balance $0.00
(Most recent balance available to national office—reports running
late)
Spring Meeting breakdown
Spring Meeting receipts $10,005.00
Less expenses 7,770.03
Revenue from Meeting $2,234.97
The transfer of one-third of the conference revenue to the Iowa Association of School Librarians per the Board resolution of July 7, 2006, has not yet occurred.
Report Submitted by Randy Roeder, 2006 Treasurer
ACRL
Chapters Council Representative
National ACRL allows local chapters to be reimbursed for educational or charitable expenses. This is a change from previous years in that we normally would use this money to pay for costs associated with the printing and mailing out of the print directory. This year, we donated $189 to the Leadership Institute with our national ACRL funds.
The Iowa Chapter ACRL logo was distributed this year although we will
keep our current logo to reflect our relationship with the Iowa Library
Association.
Kathy Parsons was elected Chair Elect of the Chapters Council! Congratulations
to Kathy!
ACRL also offers opportunities for the ACRL Board to visit chapters.
This is an option that can only be taken advantage of every three years.
Since a visit to Iowa was last made in 2002, we are again eligible to
invite one the ACRL Board members to visit Iowa and speak at a conference.
Pam Snelson, current ACRL President, has been invited to speak at the
ILA/ACRL Spring Conference in 2007 and her visit will be funded in part
through this ACRL Officers Speakers Bureau.
Another item of future interest is the University Libraries Section's
Advocacy Toolkit. This is available via the web at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/marketingyourlib/marketingyour.htm.
Chapters will soon be invited to submit a grant proposal for up to $500
to fund a speaker dealing with this subject.
Submitted by Amy Paulus
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