Greetings to all interested in school library media programming at the ALISE conference. Please note that the SLMSIG meeting will be on Thursday, Jan. 14, 7:30-8:30 am then hang around for the 8:30 session for the SLMSIG program: "Cultural Competence in School Librarianship" with panelists: Patricia Montiel Overall (Arizona); Robin A Moeller (Indiana); Tom Adamich (Mitinet, Inc.), and Barbara Schultz-Jones (North Texas). Don't forget the Birds of a Feather meeting with the Youth Services SIG at noon on Wednesday. If you can, stick around on Friday afternoon for the ALA Committee on Education/ALISE Forum on Education: "Learning Outcomes: Methodologies for Connecting Communities" with panelists: Rachel A. Applegate, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Lynn S. Connaway, OCLC; Sara Kelly Johns, Lake Placid Middle/High School (NY); Dan O'Connor, Rutgers University and Scott Walter, University of Illinois - Urbana. For updates and additional information about the Forum, please visit the website: http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/hrdrliaisoncomm/committeeoned/libraryeducationforum.cfm See you all soon! Allison -- Allison G. Kaplan, Ed.D. Associate Faculty Associate School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1335 Email: agkaplan at wisc dot edu