REVISED DEADLINE: ACRL to sponsor participant in ALA Emerging Leaders Program

CHICAGO - The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the America Library Association (ALA), has announced its support of the Emerging Leaders 2007 initiative. ALA President Leslie Burger's new program will "enable 100 new librarians to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership."

Emerging Leaders 2007 will select and train 100 new librarians beginning with a daylong session at the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Afterward, it will continue online for six months, culminating at the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. For more information
on the ALA Emerging Leaders Program, please visit http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/emerging_leaders.html.

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will provide a travel stipend for one member to participate in the American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders Program. The stipend provides $500 for travel to each conference where training will be provided. ACRL
will select one participant to sponsor through a competitive application process.

Eligibility requirements include:
- Membership in ALA and ACRL
- Age (under 35) or new librarians of any age with fewer than 5 years post-MLS experience
- Willingness to meet all other obligations for the program, as outlined by ALA President Leslie Burger at http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/emerging_leaders.html.

Interested ACRL members may apply by submitting an Emerging Leaders application (at
http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/documents/EmergingLeadersApplication_000.pdf) to David Connolly (dconnolly@ala.org) by September 15, 2006.

All applications must be submitted electronically with the subject line, "ACRL Emerging Leader." The individual selected by the ACRL president will be notified by October 13, 2006.

For more information on this and other continuing education programs sponsored by ACRL, contact the ACRL office at 800-545-2433, ext. 2523, or visit the ACRL web site at www.acrl.org.

ACRL Update, Thursday, August 23, 2006

ACRL Update
Thursday, August 24, 2006

1. ACRL to sponsor participant in ALA Emerging Leaders Program
2. New JobLIST site combines online ads from C&RL News and American Libraries
3. Take a bow or encourage someone else to!
4. Call for Higher Ed Leaders to Endorse Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006

1. ACRL to sponsor participant in ALA Emerging Leaders Program

ACRL has announced its support of the Emerging Leaders 2007 initiative. ALA President Leslie Burgers new program will enable 100 new librarians to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership.

Emerging Leaders 2007 will select and train 100 new librarians beginning with a daylong session at the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. Afterward, it will continue online for six months, culminating at the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. For more information on the ALA Emerging Leaders Program, please visit http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/emerging_leaders.html .

ACRL will provide a travel stipend for one member to participate in the ALA Emerging Leaders Program. The stipend provides $500 for travel to each conference where training will be provided. ACRL will select one participant to sponsor through a competitive application process. Eligibility requirements include:
* Membership in ALA and ACRL;
* Age (under 35) or new librarians of any age with fewer than 5 years post-MLS experience;
* Willingness to meet all other obligations for the program, as outlined by ALA President Leslie Burger at http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/emerging_leaders.html .

Interested ACRL members may apply by submitting an Emerging Leaders application (at http://lb.princetonlibrary.org/documents/EmergingLeadersApplication_000.pdf ) to David Connolly (dconnolly@ala.org ) by September 15, 2006.

All applications must be submitted electronically with the subject line, "ACRL Emerging Leader." The individual selected by the ACRL President will be notified by October 13, 2006.
For more information on this and other continuing education programs sponsored by ACRL, contact the ACRL office at 800-545-2433, ext. 2523, or visit the ACRL Web site at www.acrl.org .

2. New JobLIST site combines online ads from C&RL News and American Libraries

Employers and job seekers in library and information science and technology now have a completely searchable and all-inclusive Web resource at their command with the official launch of JobLIST (www.joblist.ala.org ).

JobLIST allows job seekers to choose from a "quick search" or to select criteria from many categories for advanced searches. The site sorts job listings not only by library type, but also by date, state, institution name, salary range, and other parameters. In addition, job seekers can register free-of-charge to post their resumes on the site and recruiters will be able to search those resumes confidentially. Job seekers may also subscribe to an RSS feed that will pick up all new ads as they are posted or subscribe based on specific search criteria that they define.

Employers can now submit job ads for C&RL News , American Libraries , and the Web only, or for any combination of print and electronic formats and can make arrangements for payment online.

Visit www.joblist.ala.org today!

3. Take a bow or encourage someone else to!

The 2007 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award nominations are due December 1! This award annually celebrates an outstanding member of the library profession who has made a significant national or international contribution to academic or research librarianship and library development.

The $3,000 award will be presented by YBP Library Services. We need your help to identify academic or research librarians that are deserving of this prestigious award. The Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award committee is currently accepting nominations and the deadline is December 1, 2006. More information can be found in the Awards section of the ACRL Web site, www.ala.org/acrl .

4. Call for Higher Ed Leaders to Endorse Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006

Fresh on the heels of endorsements of the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (S. 2695) by dozens of presidents, provosts and other top administrators, comes a call for more leaders to show their support for expanded access to peer-reviewed research http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/frpaa/highered.html

The ACRL Board endorsed FRPAA when first introduced into the Senate and supporting it falls high on ACRL's legislative agenda. Educate your top administrators about the merits of this bill and ask them to endorse it. See Campus FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions for University Administrators & Faculty http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/FINAL-FRPAA-CampusFAQ.pdf Learn more about the bill at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/frpaa

If you have questions or would like support in acting on this, please contact Kara Malenfant, Scholarly Communications and Government Relations Specialist kmalenfant@ala.org 800-545-2433 ext. 2510.

It Happened in Kentucky - Mimi O'Malley

Mimi O'Malley, an academic librarian at JCTC in Louisville, recently published her first book! Congratulations, Mimi!

It Happened in Kentucky (ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-3853-3; ISBN-10: 0-7627-3853-7) explores facinating, little-known events from Kentucky's state history.

This book would be a great addition to many collections, since it is related to Kentucky state history.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0762738537&itm=1

Mimi also has a companion blogsite to go with the book: http://ithappenedinkentucky.blogspot.com/

ACRL Update, Wednesday, August 2, 2006

ACRL Update
Wednesday, August 2, 2006

1. Apply for the 2007 ACRL Best Practices in Marketing Academic and Research Libraries @ your library® Award!
2. October 20, 2006, is the deadline for National Conference poster session proposals
3. ACRL announces 2007 Midwinter workshops
4. A New Feature At ACRLog - C&RL Previews

1. Apply for the 2007 ACRL Best Practices in Marketing Academic and Research Libraries @ your library® Award!
This award will be presented at the 13th ACRL National Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, March 29-April 1, 2007. Sponsored by the ACRL Marketing Academic and Research Libraries Committee and funded by Springer, the award will be given to the academic/research library in each category (community college, college, and university) that demonstrates an outstanding best practices marketing program. Programs must have been in place for one year and selection will be based on the most complete documentation.

Each winning library will receive a plaque and $2,000 award. Portfolios are due December 4, 2006 . For more details, visit the Awards section of the ACRL Web site at www.ala.org/acrl , or contact Megan Bielefeld, mbielefeld@ala.org .

2. October 20, 2006, is the deadline for National Conference poster session proposals
ACRL invites you to submit a poster session proposal for the ACRL 13th National Conference. Poster sessions are informal presentations featuring innovative library-based projects, including successful solutions to problems, which deliver useful information to the academic/research library community. Poster sessions will be presented during an hour-long time block and presenters should be prepared to repeat their presentation several times during the one-hour block. Full text of the Baltimore conference Call for Participation is available online at www.acrl.org/baltimore (Click "Proposals"). Proposals must be submitted by October 20, 2006, via the online proposal form (http://www.eshow2000.com/acrl/2007/program_proposal_submission.cfm). The ACRL 13th National Conference will be held in Baltimore, March 29 - April 1, 2007, and will offer a forum for an exciting exchange of ideas on research, practices, developments, and visions in the field of academic and research librarianship. Registration for the conference opens September 2006. Watch www.acrl.org/baltimore for details.

3. ACRL announces 2007 Midwinter workshops
ACRL will offer three full-day workshops during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, January 19, 2007:
*Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness: Using ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation
Discover how to use the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education as a framework for assessment of academic libraries. Start the evaluation process for your library using forms, worksheets, checklists, and practical examples as a guide.
*Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Step-by-Step
Learn how to design interesting and effective one-shot library workshops. Find out what content to cover and how to assess immediately whether your students are grasping the content.
* Managing the Changing Research Models in the Humanities
This workshop will provide an overview of the current environment in humanities research, focusing on library services and communication initiatives. Gain an understanding of changing research environments within the humanities and design an information-literacy lesson plan.
Early-bird registration opens September 11, 2006. Watch http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2007/registration.htm for registration materials.

4. A New Feature At ACRLog - C&RL Previews
College & Research Libraries is the premier scholarly journal for academic librarianship. The arrival of each new issue is one of the quintessential experiences of being an academic librarian. Now academic librarians can learn about the latest research reported in C&RL in advance from the ACRL blog. ACRLog, in cooperation with its sister ACRL publication, C&RL , will provide previews of upcoming issues of C&RL . Youll be able to preview the articles and their abstracts at http://www.acrlblog.org/ . The first month to be previewed is September 2006 (See http://acrlblog.org/crl-previews/september-2006-preview/ ). A new special feature area for C&RL Previews has been created, and within that area you will find links to future previews.

New ACRL advocacy toolkit now available

Contact: Dawn Mueller
ACRL Production Editor
312-280-2516

For Immediate Release
August 1, 2006

New ACRL advocacy toolkit now available

CHICAGO - A new advocacy toolkit from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is now online at http://www.ala.org/marketing. The toolkit will help librarians and library workers to develop their personal powers of persuasion to advance the agenda of the academic library.

This publication provides basic content on persuasion, techniques for persuading others, applications of persuasion techniques for libraries and recommended processes and examples for persuading others within higher education environments.

As part of her presidential focus over the past year, Camila Alire, ACRL past-president, commissioned a task force to develop a workshop and create a toolkit on grassroots advocacy. Julie Todaro, vice-president/president-elect of ACRL, wrote the toolkit and the Grassroots Advocacy Task Force developed the successful half-day workshop at ALA's 2006 Annual Conference in New Orleans.

"With an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of persuasion, academic and research librarians can more effectively advance student learning, increase organizational visibility, and positively influence decisions affecting the future," said Patricia Smith, executive director of the Texas Library Association.

The resulting toolkit builds on the work of ACRL Past-President Helen Spalding, whose work with the @ your academic library campaign served to highlight the importance of advocacy efforts at the local level. It provides many suggestions for starting a systematic advocacy campaign for libraries and campuses. One copy will be mailed to each ACRL member in August. Additional copies are available for sale online at http://www.ala.org/publications.

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.