Please join us for our annual Academic and Research Libraries Division business meeting. We will introduce our newly elected board members, re-cap/celebrate the work done by ARLD over the past year, and provide an overview of upcoming events and ways to get involved in the year ahead. Our annual ARLD poster session will be held in the same room in the session immediately following the business meeting. The poster session highlights the current research, professional activities, and interests of select ARLD members. ARLD members and anyone interested in current trends in academic and research libraries is encouraged to attend both sessions.
Join the Library Trustees and Advocates to talk about what's happening in your library community, and how to support strong library services. Not a member of MLA or of MLTA? No problem! Everyone is welcome to join us.
Join us for the 2016 Public Library Division business meeting! Together we will review the division’s accomplishments from the past year, learn about what it means to serve on the PLD Board, and open up the discussion to share what's happening at public libraries all over the state. Not a member of MLA or PLD? No problem! Everyone is welcome to join us.
Please join us for our annual ARLD poster session, highlighting the current research, professional activities, and interests of select ARLD members. See how Minnesota's academic and research libraries are engaging and developing 21st century learners! ARLD members and anyone interested in current trends in academic and research libraries is encouraged to attend.
We all want our libraries to be "relevant." But what does that word really mean? In this interactive keynote, author and museum director Nina Simon will share inspiring examples and practical theories on how to make your work more vital and valuable to diverse communities. Relevance isn't about what's #trending. It's about unlocking meaning in people's hearts. Join Nina for a thought-provoking conversation about how we can use relevance to matter more to more people.
Out-of-school time programming is growing in libraries by leaps and bounds! At last, Minnesota has a blueprint to help you offer more effective afterschool and summer programs for youth. Believe It. Build It. is a guidebook that brings together librarians, youth workers and afterschool care providers around a common language and research-based practices. Learn about building quality into your programs from the out-of-school time experts who are part of Ignite Afterschool, Minnesota’s afterschool network.
The Minnesota Multicounty Multitype Library Systems and the Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth invite you to the Glensheen Mansion for fun, food, and networking. There will be guided tours of the mansion and grounds - including a rare peek into the family library at Glensheen led by Director Dan Hartman - chili buffet and a cash bar.
Just minutes from downtown on the shore of Lake Superior, Glensheen (glensheen.org) is a beautiful site for an evening of relaxation and conversation with old friends and new. Free to registered attendees.
Shuttles are available from Holiday Inn & Radisson. You will need to check with your hotel for scheduling. Shuttles will not be available from Canal Park Lodge. Food served 6-8 pm.
Co-Sponsored by the Minnesota Multicounty Multitype Library Systems and the Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth.
The Readers Advisory Roundtable is looking for new members, new ideas, and new leaders. The Annual Conference is one of the only opportunities for subunit members to meet in the same room and plan for the upcoming year. We'll use this opportunity to get subunit business done, find out what’s happening around the state, and make plans for moving our subunit and the association forward. Not a member of MLA or RART? No problem! Everyone is welcome to join us.
Join us for the Technical Services Section (TSS) business meeting to find out what’s happening in Technical Services around Minnesota and help TSS plan for the upcoming year. You’ll learn about exciting projects that help colleagues and staff to “search, create, and inspire.” We’ll brainstorm new ways to assist and collaborate with TSS subunit members across the state. Plans for a TSS Day will be initiated. Not a member of MLA or the subunit? No problem! TSS welcomes new members, new ideas, and new leaders (we’ll be voting on the Chair-Elect position as well). Everyone is welcome to join us!
In September 2013, Bexar County, Texas, launched BiblioTech, the first entirely digital public library in the United States. Capitalizing on technology, BiblioTech challenges the paradigm of the library and presents an inverted service model by breaking down library “walls” with accessibility to disengaged populations. BiblioTech has captured the imagination of people all over the world and has sparked dialog about new and exciting ways library services can be delivered to the public.
In 2015, MELSA received a $100,000 grant through the State Library Services agency to learn more about how metro residents use computers, employ network technologies, and adapt to changing online access patterns for government services. Most importantly, we asked how public libraries might provide assistance in these endeavors. This program will cover the scope of the project including: - preliminary planning, - selection of a survey firm - development of a survey instrument - collection and analysis of survey data by the National Research Center, Inc., - integration of the survey results in service planning discussions at two MELSA member libraries: Anoka County Library and Scott County Library.
Ever evolving technology, social network sites that come and go, how can you possibly keep up? What does digital literacy look like in 2016? Newman will talk about why digital literacy matter to our patrons and our libraries, what it means to be digitally literate, and offer some suggestions for those just getting started and for those who think they are already digitally literate.
