"I encourage you to review ALAO’s offering of spring workshops as the dates, locations, & themes come out over the next several weeks. They provide excellent opportunities for presenters and attendees." -- Brian Hickam, ALAO Newsletter President's Report, 11/30/11
"We are over 600 members, representing more than 100 libraries, organizations, and businesses. We provide support, encouragement, and continuing education opportunities for academic library staff from all over Ohio through our workshops, annual conference and other programs." -- Welcome to ALAO.
"We are over 600 members, representing more than 100 libraries, organizations, and businesses. We provide support, encouragement, and continuing education opportunities for academic library staff from all over Ohio through our workshops, annual conference and other programs." -- Welcome to ALAO.
Note that registration for the Distance Learning Interest Group's (DLIG) spring workshop, INOV8: Revitalizing Distance Learning, scheduled for Friday, May 13th, is now open.
For more information on the DLIG workshop, visit their events page or view the brochure (PDF)."This year’s workshop will focus on ways to revitalize your approach to distance learning by featuring freely available technologies, successful strategies for connecting to our students and faculty, and tips for librarianship in learning management systems."
Interested in archived information? Previous issues of the ALAO Newsletter (vols 26 - 28) are available online.
The spring ALAO Newsletter (Volume 28, Number 1 March, 2010) is now available! Featured in this issue:
ALAO members interested in submitting information to the newsletter should contact Lindsey Midkiff Miller, ALAO Communications Member.
Congratulations to Rob Withers, Miami University, who was elected as Vice-President/President elect of ALAO. Other winners are Alison Ricker, Oberlin College (Secretary), Angel Jackson, Columbus State Community College (Membership Chair), Ione Damasco, University of Dayton (Board member), and Stephena Harmony, University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College (Board member).
Consider running for office, this is a great professional library organization!
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Information regarding the ALAO News blog and instructions regarding creating an account to ALAO members interested in particiating in this endeavor will be forthcoming from the ALAO webmasters or ALAO membership chair.
Last Friday, September 22nd, was the first board meeting of the fall was held at Ohionet. One of the agenda items was the ALAO News Blog. We were given a short tutorial by one of the ALAO Co-Webmasters and workings of the wysiwyg editor explained. In one of those "it's a small world" moments, it was a bit disconcerting to see a Library Cloud link detailed by ALAO's blogging software as a recent incoming link.
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