Good news! The nominees for ACRL-LA officers have been released! The election will begin on May 21st, 2012!

Candidates are listed by category and then alphabetically. Voting will be conducted in the forums. Remember, you need to be a member and have a forums account to vote.

The minutes for the meeting during LLA 2012 are now available on the minutes page:
http://www.acrlla.org/documents/minutes

The Louisiana Library Association 2012 Conference will be in Shreveport, March 21 - 23, and we'll be there:

Thursday, March 22
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm: Business Meeting
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm: Ice Cream Social
Room 208 & 209

The Academic/ACRL-LA Meet & Greet & Business Meeting will be at the LLA 2012 Conference in Shreveport.

But Don't forget-- the following Ice Cream Social registration deadline is tomorrow, March 1, because it's a ticketed event by pre-registration only. The business meeting is open to all.

Have a look at ACRL Louisiana's article in ACRL's "Topics" newsletter, starting on this page.

You can find past issues of Topics here.

Nominations are now open for the 2012 Scholar Librarian of the Year Award. See the award page page for more details and the list of past recipients.

This award of $250.00 (compliments of Gale Cengage) recognizes an academic librarian whose original research—related to or relevant to academic libraries and/or higher education—has resulted in outstanding work published during the previous 2 calendar years (2010 and 2011). The recipient also receives a complimentary membership in the Louisiana chapter and a framed certificate.

Membership, Nominations, & Elections Committee chair Mike Matthews has recently issued a new call for nominations:

Attention ACRL-LA Chapter Members:

We are having a special election for the office of “President-Elect”, which has been recently vacated. The President-Elect will serve from the date of his/her election to June 30th of 2012, and will thereafter serve as the absolute monarch of the Louisiana chapter beginning July 1st until June 30th of 2014.

ACRL-LA needs a new President Elect! Could it be you?

Responsibilities

• "Shadow" current President until June/July 2012
• If you become a President, you MUST become an ACRL national member
• Become next president

How to self-nominate:

• Deadline: Oct. 24th, 11:00pm Extended: Friday, Dec. 16th, 12:00pm
• Email your nomination to the president at Melissa Goldsmith

There will be an ACRL-LA meeting at LUC 2011.

• Room 1111
• Oct. 14, 11:30am-12:30pm
• Session 10

And hopefully a good time will be had by all.

Attention ACRL-LA Members:

Represent your institution, your chapter, and your mighty profession at the Louisiana Library Association’s Annual Conference, March 21-23

Dear Librarians: