Meet up with faculty and students from MU's School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at ALA in Chicago, June 30-July 2, 2013.
* Visit us at the shared ALISE booth #137 located in McCormick Place South Hall / Exhibit Floor.
Several of our faculty members will be presenting – plan on attending:
* Interested in performing better research as a librarian practitioner? Want to learn how to inform decision making in your library with research and evidence? Then join the ACRL ULS Evidence Based Discussion Group at ALA Annual. We will be hosting a discussion on Sunday 30 June from 8:30 am - 10:00 am in McCormick Place N230a. Invited guests for the discussion are:
· John Budd, Professor, School of Information & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri
· Sharon Weiner, Professor of Library Science and W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy, Purdue University Libraries
· Nancy Adams, Associate Director/Coordinator of Education & Instruction, Penn State Hershey, George T. Harrell Health Sciences Library
This is great opportunity to talk and ask questions about research in librarianship with other interested professionals.
* Chris LeBeau, Assistant Teaching Professor; Outgoing BRASS Chair, 2011-2012, BRASS and University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. Chris will be co-presenter for RUSA-BRASS's "Business Reference 101: Core Competencies for Business Librarianship". http://ala13.ala.org/node/10714 When: Friday, June 28, 2013 - 8:30am to 4:00pm. Where: McCormick Place Convention Center<http://ala13.ala.org/node/10041>, S401d.
* Denice Adkins, Associate Professor will be hosting the "Research at Your Service/Investigaciones para Servirle REFORMA President's Program". When: Saturday, June 29th, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Where: Spire Parlor in Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe Street, Chicago, IL. Press release here: http://reforma.org/pr_research_13. Denice will be concluding her term as president of REFORMA.
* Heather Moulaison, Associate Professor and colleague/author Rachel Jaffe<http://connect.ala.org/search/ala_user/Rachel+Jaffe>, Metadata/Catalog Librarian, Binghamton University Libraries will present "Connecting professional service to service learning: Strengthening the relationship between academic libraries and library schools". Full details: http://ala13.ala.org/node/12136 When: Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm. Where: McCormick Place Convention Center<http://ala13.ala.org/node/10041>, Hall A, Exhibit Floor
Looking forward to seeing you there!!
Andrea Smolanovich
Marketing
SISLT/University of Missouri
Columbia MO
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