ASCLA- Preconference
The Outspoken Library: A Gateway for Public Libraries to Services for the Visually and Physically Impaired
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Event Code: ASC3
Ticket Prices | Early Bird | Advance | Onsite |
ALA Member | $129 | $149 | $149 |
Division Member | $109 | $129 | $129 |
Round Table Member | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Retired Member | $99 | $109 | $109 |
Student Member | $99 | $109 | $109 |
Non-Member | $149 | $169 | $169 |
Looking for inventive ideas for promoting library services? The New Jersey State Library developed “The Outspoken Library” to promote free online services that are available for print-disabled people. This program allows library customers to access services administered through the State Library’s Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC), including audio newspapers (TBBC’s Audiovision and NFB’s Newsline) and the Library of Congress’s Braille and Audio Reading Download service. Find out how to establish and market these valuable resources.
CLA
CLA- Preconference
Outcomes + Outreach = Outstanding Summer Reading Programs
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Event Code: CLA1
Ticket Prices | Early Bird | Advance | Onsite |
ALA Member and Non-Member | $149 | $149 | $149 |
The workshop will be targeted primarily at public library youth services managers and branch managers, and also at other youth services staff. It will provide librarians with the skills they need to educate and train colleagues and stakeholders about the value of outcome- and outreach-based summer reading; reach out effectively with their summer reading programs; evaluate the results of their outreach; and use their results to improve library service, promote the library, and help obtain funding for library programs. While the workshop will focus on summer reading, the skills learned at the workshop will be transferable to other areas of library service.
The workshop will be framed within CLA’s outcomes- and outreach-based summer reading initiative and will therefore help librarians transition from presenting programs that merely measure outputs to presenting programs that record benefits. California is the only state to initiate a statewide effort to gather summer reading outcomes and we hope that the workshop will enable and encourage more libraries to participate in the initiative. We will use lessons learned, examples, and resources from the initiative during the workshop. After attending the workshop, California librarians will be equipped to participate successfully in the initiative, and others will have the skills and knowledge to implement outreach- and outcome-based summer reading in their states.
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