LSA Winter Party and Crafts Fair

On Tuesday, December 18th, from 10-11:30, the LSA Winter Party is returning to the Powell Rotunda. As part of this event, a library staff crafts fair will be held in the East Rotunda. If you are a crafty person and would like to share your creations with your colleagues, please contact me, Lise Snyder at lsnyder@library.ucla.edu or x64474. I am also looking for volunteers to help with planning and set up, so contact me if you are interested in helping. Please join me and the rest of the LSA Board in re-establishing a cherished Library tradition which we hope will foster a greater spirit of fellowship among all library staff.

Call for Proposals for Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange

Proposals are being accepted through February 1, 2008 for the 4th Annual Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange to be held June 5-6, 2008 in Orem, Utah. Submit your proposal online through the conference website: www.ttix.org.

Possible topics include:

• Course development & instructional design
• New and emerging technologies and innovations
• Course management strategies
• Best practices in teaching
• Support and services
• Faculty development and training
• Administration
• Evaluation and quality
• Collaboration
• Open-access education

Registration for this conference is free.

This year the conference website features a public proposal review system, where prospective attendees can view the current list of pre-screened proposals and rate them according to their own interest.

For further information, please see www.ttix.org.

Call for Internet Resource/Web Site Reviewers: Public Services Quarterly

Public Services Quarterly (PSQ) , a peer-reviewed journal from Haworth Press, is looking for Internet resource/web sites and reviewers. The Internet Column of PSQ provides reviews of Internet resources that are designed to help librarians develop and enhance their skills and professional competencies, be more effective in their positions, and provide better service to their patrons.

The Internet column will highlight Internet resources librarians use as professional tools with regard to any of the following: reference and research services, user education, information literacy, access services, online searching techniques, and marketing/outreach.

For the upcoming issue of PSQ, v.4(2), the Internet Column is seeking reviewers and site recommendations for online calendars, to-do lists, meeting organizers, room schedulers, and other such free web applications.

Reviewers should have experience in public services work in an academic library. Good writing skills, attention to detail, and ability to keep to deadlines are essential.

For more information on Public Services Quarterly, please see the journal's home page at www.haworthpressinc.com/web/PSQ/.

If interested in recommending a site and/or becoming an Internet Resource reviewer, please contact Nicole A. Cooke, Internet Column Editor, at psqinternet@gmail.com.

Project SAILS Training at ALA Midwinter

Project SAILS offers a standardized test of information literacy skills based on ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. There will be two Project SAILS training sessions in conjunction with the ALA Midwinter meeting in Philadelphia.

1. Introduction to the SAILS Test

The first session is a one-hour information and training session that will take place Saturday, January 12, 2008 from 3pm-4pm in the Fairmount Room, Embassy Suites Hotel Philadelphia (hotel number 6 on the ALA Hotel Locator Map). The session will include an introduction to SAILS, information on how to administer the test, and time for questions.

2. Understanding Your SAILS Report

The second session is a one-hour review on reading the SAILS reports. This session is intended primarily for schools that complete testing this fall and receive a report in January, although others are welcome to attend. Those who have completed their testing must bring a copy of their report to this session. The session will be held Saturday, January 12, 4pm-5pm in the Fairmount Room, Embassy Suites Hotel Philadelphia (hotel number 6 on the ALA Hotel Locator Map).

Each individual who wants to attend must register using the sign-up page on the Project SAILS Web site. The deadline for registration is Friday, January 4, 2008. There is no cost for either session. To sign up for this workshop, please see the event registration page at www.projectsails.org/reservation_signup.php.

Please note that Project SAILS will not appear in ALA's list of presentations, so be sure to save this information or check the Project SAILS Web site (www.projectsails.org). If you have any questions, please contact info@projectsails.org.

Departures

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Previous issues

• Issues 846 and forward are available on the Staff Intranet.
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• Issues 1-836 are available in print under the title Library Newsletter/UCLA at the UCLA Library.

• Library News for the Faculty (www2.library.ucla.edu/facultynews/3300.cfm)
• UCLA News (www.uclanews.ucla.edu)
• UCOP News (www.ucnewswire.org/ucnw.cfm)

The UCLA Library Staff Newsweb is published every other Monday by Library Human Resources. News items should be sent to Sheila Knapp, Library Newsweb, LHR. Please submit via email to Sheila at sknapp@library.ucla.edu. The deadline for the next issue (November 26) is Friday, November 16 at 3 p.m.

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