http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog Oklahoma Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:52:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Market Share: A Blueprint for You and Your Library with Keynote Speaker Lauren Burnett. To be held Nov. 6, 2009 at Tulsa Community College - Southeast Campus. Go to the OKACRL site for complete details and the registration form. http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=43 The 2009 OK-ACRL Annual Conference will feature poster sessions either on the theme of marketing in libraries or on other innovative projects, services, or initiatives at your library that you would like to share with your colleagues.  Submissions are due by October 1, 2009.  Click here for complete details. http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=42 unCOILED: Participatory Learning in the Age of the Unengaged Friday, July 17, 2009 Main Building, Auditorium NSU's Muskogee Campus, 2400 W. Shawnee, Muskogee, OK 9:00am - 3:30pm More details and online regsitraton here. http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=41 The plans for the 2009 OKACRL Fall conference are coming together. Nov. 6, 2009 Libraries and marketing Tulsa More details coming soon! We will have poster sessions, the call for posters will be out soon. Congratulations to Misty Smith from OSU Stillwater - she won the drawing for a free conference registration! http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=39 From Karen Malenfant-ACRL: The next 36 to 48 hours is critical to get millions, maybe billions, of dollars for libraries in the stimulus package.  We need every single library supporter to start sending messages and calling congressional offices so that we can keep important library provisions in the American ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=38   On Friday, November 14, 2008, the Oklahoma Chapter held its Fall Conference at the new Training and Education Center on the Rose State College campus. The conference title was How Secure is Your Security? Library Security, Safety Planning and Policies. Tragic headlines about violence on campuses cause everyone to wonder – ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=36 The Results are In! : COIL Reports on the State of Info-Lit Instruction in Oklahoma In February 2008, the COIL group conducted a survey of college and university instruction librarians and library instruction programs throughout the state. This session will highlight the results gleaned from the 74 librarian respondents and 37 ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=37 Hello all, If you haven't already seen this, a librarian named Yohannes Gebregeorgis has been named one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes.  This puts him him in the running for the CNN Hero of the Year.  You can check out Yohannes' story and vote for him here: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/cnn.heroes/index.html.  He's fantastic!  Check ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=35 Conference registration forms are available here. Rates for registration are as follows: $50 for OK-ACRL members (paid 2008 membership dues in ACRL or OK-ACRL) $65 for non-members $20 for students A note about membership: national ACRL members are automatically members of OK-ACRL.  If you are not a national ACRL member, OK-ACRL membership dues are $15, valid for ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=34 In hard economic times, more people are turning to their local public libraries for their information and entertainment instead of the bookstore or the video rental store. But as this article in the U Penn Daily Pennsylvanian points out, this increase in traffic has not necessarily spilled over ... http://blog.library.okstate.edu/blog/?p=33