ALA+MidWinter+2009

ALA MidWinter Meeting 2009 Colorado Convention Center
Arrive in Denver Marriot Center City
 * Thursday, January 22, 2009**

9:00 - 5:00 AASL Advocacy Institute Presented by Deborah Levitov**
 * Friday, January 23, 2009

The differences between Advocacy, Public Relations, and Marketing //Refer to handbook for more examples of these three.//
 * Advocacy - on-going process of building partnerships with faculty and staff. This will get them to act for you and your program.
 * Public Relations - One-way communication intended to deliver a message.
 * Books & Bagels
 * Marketing - Planned and sustained process to assess customer's needs (patrons). Then determine what materials and services will meet those needs.
 * Example is the @ your library campaign
 * Going through catalog with teachers/PTO, etc to create library orders!!!

Continuum of collaboration  //Refer to Oct/Nov Knowledge Quest for more information// 6:00 Briarcliffe colleague dinner
 * Cooperation
 * Coordination
 * Collaboration
 * Good handout on this in packet for future presentations.
 * "Mansfield Course" for administrators on this topic. Try giving administrators a copy of D. Johnson's 13 checklist.
 * "Resource Box" on circulation desk for special request forms!! - Done 3/09
 * Friday, January 23, 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009** Morning Free for Exhibits Update: No proposals received this year for the Intellectual Freedom Award. So disappointing and really drove home the notion that these awards MUST be advertised! Last week in March I was contacted by Andrea Parker to be one of five committee chairs to score the Bound to Stay Bound Travel Grant for first time attendees to Annual in Chicago.
 * 1:30 - 4:00 AASL Awards Committee Meeting, Colorado Convention Center Room 605/607**
 * Discuss value and purpose of all of the AASL awards
 * Sponsors for each award reviewed
 * Ways to increase publicity of awards
 * Rubrics should or should not be included to online applications
 * Online applications should be editable online
 * Is there value and purpose in the Prime Time ceremony
 * How many attending the Best of the best grant recipient workshop
 * Proposals will be arriving in March
 * Grades will be discussed electronically via our awards listerv (IF)
 * Results are confidential until AASL announces winner
 * Saturday Night - See some of my friends from when I lived in CO...including my old roommate!!!**
 * April 8, 2009**
 * Finished reading 178 Bound to Stay Bound grant submissions
 * Posted 30 winners electronically to list