2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Videos from the conference in Loida Time!

ALA Conference overview: 

REFORMA at the ALA Conference:

Multilingual, Multicultural ALA Conference:

Loida @ 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

These are exciting times for librarians in the USA. ALA Annual Conference is coming up in a few days. Librarians from all over the world will meet in Chicago to enjoy a surprising week. I am looking forward to see many of you.

I am speaking at two programs, and I am on two committees plus REFORMA. I will be busy, but just in case you need to find me, here are the highlights of my schedule (I know there will be many more meetings!) Email and text are also welcomed!
 
Thursday, June 27

Privacy: Who Do You Trust?

Caucus Presidents` Dinner

Professional Opportunities Fair – Spectrum

 
Friday, June 27
 
Intellectual Freedom Committee I

LJ Movers & Shakers Lunch

Intellectual Freedom Round Table I

REFORMA Executive I

 

Saturday, June 28
 
Intellectual Freedom Committee II

Critical Issues Facing Latino Librarianship in the 21st Century

America`s War on Sex (IFRT program)

Speaking at Research into Practice: Latino Perception of Public Libraries

 
Sunday, June 29
 
Reforma breakfast

REFORMA Board meeting

Speaking at Online tools build community

Affiliates luncheon

Top Technology Trends

Pura Belpre Celebration

Make Stories, Tell Stories, Keep Stories

REFORMA fundraiser!!

  
Monday, June 30
 
REFORMA Membership meeting – I’ll be REFORMA President at the end of this mtg!
 
REFORMA Executive Committee II
 
REFORMA New President’s work session
 
The Merritt Fund “Reception for a Cause”
 
International Librarians Reception
 
 
Tuesday, July 1st
 
Intellectual Freedom Committee III

ALA Awards Ceremony and Inaugural Banquet

NYC Zine Fest

Zines are one of the most effective ways of expression. That’s what I think.

A Zine is a “self-published magazine of sorts that can cover a wide variety of topics- pretty much anything the person who is creating it is interested in can be the subject matter of the zine,” said Celia Perez , librarian at the Harold Washington College and a zine author herself, when I asked her what was a zine. 
More information about zines and the NYC Zine Fest on my new video including some of the hottest zine collections in the nation nicely described by Jenna Freedman, Zine Librarian at Barnard College.

Loida Time!