Alaska Library Association
Anchorage Chapter

 

 

Box 242692
Anchorage, AK 99524

Meeting Schedule

Meeting and Program Schedule for 2009 Plus January 2010

Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month, except for the month of the AkLA Conference, and December (we meet, but the day may vary).

Meeting Date and Time

Meeting Place and Address

Program

 January
8, 2009
4:15 p.m.


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UAA Consortium Library, Room 302A, the conference room on the third floor

Steve Rollins has agreed to speak about the new Anchorage Times exhibit at UAA for our program. Agenda items will include: introduction of our new officers, committee chair assignments, payment of dues and a discussion of programs and meeting locations for the year. Parking at UAA will be free for this meeting as the new semester has not begun.

January 10, 2009
6-9 pm

ACLU Liberty Awards
Millennium Hotel, Anchorage
 

 February 12, 2009
4:15 p.m.

Alaska State Court Law Library
303 K Street, Anchorage
Tour of the law library with Catherine Lemann, Alaska State Law Librarian
March 1, 2009
6 p.m.
Mayoral forum
UAA
 

March 2009

No meeting; statewide AkLA conference  

 April 9, 2009
4:15 pm

UAA Consortium Library
Room 302A
Kaela Parks of the UAA Disability Support Services. Presentation about the barriers to information access for those with a disability.

May 14, 2009
4:15 pm

Loussac Library, 4th floor conference room Judith F. Bendersky, a former librarian and public health educator, currently runs the state health departments Medicare counseling office. She will do an overview of the services they provide.
June 11, 2009
12 noon

Loussac Library, on the grass near the ice fountain

(we will move indoors if it rains)

Annual summer book sharing. Bring a sack lunch. Special guest will be Marie Lundstrom to discuss her poetry collection “50 Poems for Alaska".
July 9, 2009
9 am
Alaska Native Medical Center
4325 Diplomacy Drive, Anchorage
Tour of the medical library with Dana Haff, Medical Librarian
August 13, 2009
9 am

UAA Consortium Library,
Room 302A
Mike Robinson on emerging technology trends.
September 10, 2009
4:15 pm
Chugiak-Eagle River Branch Library Karen Keller on what's new at Anchorage Public Libraries

September 13, 2009
7:45 am to 7 pm

Librarians (& friends) on Walkabout in Seward, Alaska
$30 Donation to AkLA-A -- see home page for more details
October 8, 2009
4:15 pm
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center Tour of the Museum by Marilyn Knapp, Curator
November 12, 2009
4:15 pm

Loussac Library,
4th Floor Conference Room
Helping Libraries Grow and Change: Why Organization Development Matters
Nina Malyshev talks about the capacity-building work she does for libraries through her new business, Giving Voice Consulting
December 2009 Home of Nina Prockish Holiday Celebration
January 14, 2010
4:15 pm
UAA Consortium Library,
Room 302A
Kato Haunga, a student at UAA from Tonga (a country without a single library), is doing a presentation about her project to start a library in her home village. She has collected thousands of books from donations and is working on arrangements to ship them back to her country and obtain a building.

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