Meeting Purpose: Regular meeting and discussion for the group on topics surrounding management and supervision issues.
Meeting Topic: Hiring, Onboarding, and Training
Membership in this interest group is required for meeting participation. Please check the listserv of this interest group for meeting participation details.
The Current Library Directors Interest Group will have its first gathering to review the mission and purpose of this new interest group and to discuss 2023 challenges. Check the interest group communication for meeting participation details.
Want to learn how to index for Christian Periodical Index (CPI), or would you like to brush up your indexing skills? Join CPI Team members for a series of training sessions in February. Sessions will cover descriptive indexing, identification of proper subject headings, and practice indexing. The first three sessions are introductory. The final session will cover more advanced indexing skills. By the end of these sessions, everyone will have completed indexing that will become part of CPI.
Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card once for each live session attended, with the drawing to occur after the third session on February 16.
Participants who attend all three of the first three live training sessions will also be eligible for CEU credit. Participants desiring CEU credit must complete and submit an evaluation form by Friday, March 1.
Part 1, Indexing reviews – Friday, February 2, 2-3 pm Eastern/11 am-12 pm Pacific
Part 2, Indexing articles – Friday, February 9, 2-3 pm Eastern/11 am-12 pm Pacific
Part 3, Hands-on indexing practice – Friday, February 16, 2-3 pm Eastern/11 am-12 pm Pacific
Part 4, Advanced Indexing – Friday, February February 23, 2-3 pm Eastern/11 am-12 pm Pacific
Read or skim Eikon 2:1 (Spring 2020). This open access journal is available at https://cbmw.org/journal/. We will be indexing parts of this issue in each session so that by the end of session three we will have completed the entire issue.
Email [email protected] for more information.
We know that not all can come in person to our Annual ACL Conference (June 6-8) at Cedarville University with budget and time constraints, so we will continue to offer a virtual option for 2023, but at a different time than our in-person event.
What to expect:
Registration is set to open March 1, 2023.
The ACL membership runs with the calendar year. Be sure to renew your membership for 2023 to stay connected to this vibrant group of Christian librarians!
The ACL Annual Conference is our keystone librarian gathering of the year, where we seek to inform attendees about contemporary trends in librarianship, stimulate professional development, encourage face-to-face networking, and provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas. Our conference is one way that ACL seeks to bring members into community to encourage one another as Christ-followers in the shared librarianship profession.
What to expect at our in-person conference gathering at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio June 5-8, 2023:
Registration is set to open March 1, 2023.
The ACL membership year runs from January-December of any given year. All 2022 ACL individual memberships expire 12/31/2022. Be sure to renew your membership soon to stay connected to this librarian community. <insert button/renewal link>
We are excited to announce that the 2023 Call for Presentation Proposals is now open. This ACL Conference reflects the theme of service at the heart of our profession. As the ACL Home Office announced on November 1, the 2023 Conference will be held in-person and online at different times in the month of June. We are looking for presenters who want to share their knowledge in either of these conference settings.
Workshops should be well-researched and provide an engaging balance of theory and practice. As you are thinking about a workshop topic, please consider the following questions. Is your library doing something new and innovative? Have you developed new strategies for services? Do you have expertise that would benefit other librarians? For more information about topic ideas, presentation formats, and selection criteria, you’ll want to visit the Workshop Presentations page.
In addition, we ask that you attend the event you present at. Timelines for presenters, whether in-person or online, are also included on the Workshop Presentations webpage. By submitting a proposal, you are indicating your understanding of expectations and wanting to move forward.
We ask that you submit your presentation proposal by December 9th, 2022.
If you have any questions, please email Ruth McGuire, ACL Presentations Coordinator.
