Please mark your calendars! The AAAL Fall Meeting for 2016 will be held in Edmonton on Thursday, November 17 at the University of Alberta.
A call for presentations, RSVP info and agenda are forthcoming. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact either AAAL co-chair with any questions or concerns.
The AAAL Executive is looking for an enthusiastic library staff member from an AAAL institution to put their name forward to fill a vacancy on the AAAL Communications Committee.
The responsibilities of this Committee are as follows:
Please express your interest via email to cj.dejong@ualberta.ca by Wednesday, September 7th.
In 2015, AAAL launched a Professional Development Award for member libraries. Valarie Westers, Medicine Hat College, received funding to attend and present a lightning strike session at the AAAL AGM in April. Here is Valarie’s report on her experience.
I was most appreciative to receive Alberta Association of Academic Libraries (AAAL) professional development funding which allowed me to attend the AAAL Spring AGM 2016 meeting in Calgary. As a first-time attendee of this meeting it was a great opportunity to experience “in person” the cooperative and supportive nature of this association.
The event began with the AGM which included elections for the Director-At-Large and the Secretary/Treasurer positions as well as reports from each of the committees. After the business meeting there was a round-table discussion which consisted of brief reports and updates from local associations and the represented libraries. I really enjoyed hearing about the new initiatives taking place in different academic libraries across the province.
It was great to meet new people during the lunch table talks. The topic for discussion at the table I joined was mentorship in libraries. As a group I believe that we came up with some very useful ideas that the association can build upon. It was a really good ice-breaker!
During the lunch break we also had the opportunity to tour either the Nickle Gallery or the University of Calgary Taylor Library. I toured the Nickle Gallery where a video and media show by Dan Hudson was featured – it was pretty amazing. If you are interested in finding out more here is a link to the show information: http://nickle.ucalgary.ca/exhibitions/item/dan-hudson-360-and-other-journeys
Nancy Chick and Caitlin McClurg were the afternoon keynote speakers and they presented “Embedding Librarians in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning” It was an informative presentation highlighting the importance of the “shared” rather than “supporting” role of librarians during faculty research projects.
Next were lightning strike (15 minutes) presentations. The presentations were enjoyable and offered some unique ideas. Leigh Cunningham and I (Medicine Hat College Library) were selected to present “Blurred Lines: Redefining Technical Services in an Academic Library”. I was pleased to have had the opportunity to share our experience with others.
I would like to thank the AAAL Professional Development Committee for generously donating the funds so that I was able to attend and participate in this AAAL meeting.
For more information about the Professional Development Award, please contact committee members Suzanne Rackover (Banff Centre) or Janet Sainsbury (Bow Valley College).
Hi AAAL,
Here is our AAAL Spring 2016 Meeting Package. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Note: We will NOT be printing Meeting Packages. Feel free to use the e-version or print your own copy.
Looking forward to seeing everyone Thursday at the University of Calgary!
Thanks,
Robyn and Sonya
Library staff from all member institutions <https://aaal.ca/membership/membership-list> are invited to join us for the Alberta Association of Academic Libraries 2016 Spring Annual General Meeting at the University of Calgary on Thursday, April 14.
Please register at http://tinyurl.com/aaalrsvp-s16 by Wednesday, April 6! Space is limited, so register early.
Thanks to the hard work of AAAL Committees and Executive members, we have a busy day of networking and learning planned, including our AAAL business meeting in the morning, and a full slate of presentations in the afternoon. We are also excited to have Nancy Chick (Academic Director for the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning) and Caitlin McClurg (Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Calgary) joining us after lunch to provide the day’s keynote on librarians and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Lunch, as always, will be provided by the AAAL.
For details, please see the agenda and meeting package.
We look forward to seeing you there!
AAAL 