Musings from a Student on #ALAAC16– by ALASC Regional Events Coordinator Stephanie Barnaby

From the minute I stepped off the plane in Florida, the heat was oppressive. There were palm trees everywhere! I didn’t feel totally prepared for Orlando in the dead center of summer. The picture included here is of a gecko I saw by the hotel pool. I hadn’t seen one before and it took me the whole trip to get…

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Fall 2016 Edition of the Descriptor

ALA Conference 2016 Orlando The meeting point It’s a big conference. With nearly 60,000 members, the American Library Association is the biggest collective of librarians and information professionals in the world, so naturally its gatherings get big. Many thousands of members attend the annual conference. You can spend almost a week there and never spot the classmate or colleague you…

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Event in Review & Recording: Julia Frankosky

Last week ALASC was honored to have ALA's Member Services Director for the New Member Roundtable (NMRT), Julia Frankosky, as a guest speaker to kick off the Spring semester. Julia discussed a number of key topics including ways for students to get involved in ALA's NMRT. As a very large organization, it can be hard for students and those new…

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Limited Time Offer: Free Student Memberships to NASIG

NASIG is offering free memberships to students for a limited time!  To take full advantage of all the many benefits membership confers, please join before January 31, 2016. What is NASIG? NASIG is an independent organization working to advance and transform the management of information resources. Our ultimate goal is to facilitate and improve the distribution, acquisition, and long-term accessibility…

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Conference Bust

  by Kathryn Kane   I am an MLlS student slowly creeping upon graduation, so when I found out that the Pacific Northwest Library Association annual conference was going to be in my hometown of Vancouver, Washington, I jumped at the chance to hobnob with some professionals. It was to be my first conference and I had high hopes. In…

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