The LLAMA Mentoring Committee is pleased to announce the 2010-2011 year of the mentoring for leadership program. The purpose of the program is to encourage and nurture current and future leaders and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices. The 10 month mentoring for leadership program is multifaceted. Mentors and mentees will be called duos and must be members of LLAMA in good standing.

• LLAMA Formal Mentoring Guide
• LLAMA Mentor Fact Sheet (pdf)
• LLAMA Mentee Fact Sheet (pdf)

Please apply:

• Mentor Application (pdf)
• Mentee Application (pdf)

See our wiki for more information at:

http://lama.ala.org/lamawiki/index.php?title=LLAMA_Mentoring_Committee

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The Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) announced today a line-up of three interactive webinars designed to meet the needs of experienced leaders and managers at the dean, director, department head and branch manager level. Each of the 60-90 minute programs will feature library consultant Pat Wagner of Pattern Research.

“These short webinars provide materials drawn from many sources and offer an interdisciplinary approach to leadership topics with material from outside the library world that can help participants solve complex problems. Emphasis is on practical applications rather than academic models – how-to leadership above the basics that are provided in many leadership institutes,” said Ms. Wagner.

“The Executive-Decision Maker’s Secret Weapon – How You Can Make Better Choices with
the Use of Graphic Models,” Wed, Oct 21, 2:00-3:30 pm, Central Time.

“Learn the Supervisor’s Balancing Act – How You Can Bring Out the Best in Your Top
People Without Micromanagement,” Tues, Nov 3, 2:00-3:30 pm, CT

“Make Your Library Dreams Come True –
How You Can Use Project Management Techniques to Write a Strategic Plan,” Mon., Nov.16, 2:00-3:30 pm, CT

Registration for each webinar is $39 for LLAMA members and $49 for all others.

For more information and to register

About the Library Leadership and Management Association

The mission of the Library Leadership and Management Association (www.ala.org/llama) is to encourage and nurture current and future library leaders, and to develop and promote outstanding leadership and management practices. LLAMA is a division of the American Library Association.

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ACRL and LLAMA are now accepting proposals for their Spring Virtual Institute, “Doing Well by Doing Good: Entrepreneurial Leadership for Librarians.” Submissions will be accepted through November 16, 2009.  Complete details are available online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/springvirtualinstitute.cfm.

Taking place April 21-22, 2010, the ACRL/LLAMA Spring Virtual Institute will explore different models and aspects of leadership and management and their impact on academic librarianship in today’s challenged and flat economic environments. The institute will offer both synchronous and asynchronous sessions which will be archived after the institute for viewing on-demand.

Proposals are invited for interactive webcasts and online poster sessions.  Details about these formats and the complete Call for Participation are online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/springvirtualinstitute.cfm.  Direct questions to Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or (312) 280-2522.

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The Financial Management Committee from ALA LLAMA’s Library Organization and Management Section, is working on a follow-up article to Shift Happens: Aligning Financial Decisions with Strategic Directions.  Shift Happens was presented at the ALA 2008 Annual Conference and focused on how the change in financial and economic factors can influence strategic plans and directions.  This of course was prepared and presented prior to the economic downturn that was just occurring at that time but has since had major impact on library budgets across the country.

The committee is interested in submitting an updated article to LL&M Magazine and Jane Duffy and I have been working on some updates.  We were hoping that some of you would share some stories with regard to how the national economic crisis affected longer term planning.  We’d like to include some annotated discussions or experiences in this article.  We are specifically looking for impact, that through short term reactions to funding dilemmas  also caused a change to strategic goals and/or missions from an organizational point of view.

Anyone who shares a story that we use along with our research will be recognized in the article.  Please send an email to me at macrumpt@uncg.edu and/or include an attachment of your thoughts and experiences.

Thanks for sharing,
Mike Crumpton and Jane Duffy
LLAMA LOMS Financial Management Committee

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The LLAMA Nominating Committee invites nominations for the following offices:

• President-elect, 2010 – 2011 (and then President 2011 – 2012)
• Secretary, 2010 – 2012
• Director at Large, 2010 – 2012

If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please send your message to the Nominating Committee chairman Bede Mitchell at wbmitch@georgiasouthern.edu and indicate the person’s name, affiliation, contact information, the office for which you are nominating, and no more than 75 words about why you think the nominee would be effective in the position. Please send your nominations no later than September 4, 2009. If you have questions about the duties of any of these offices, please send your inquiries to the above e-mail address.

Our final slate of candidates will appear on the spring 2010 ballot, and those elected will assume their offices immediately after the 2010 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Thank you.
Bede Mitchell, Georgia Southern University (committee chair)
Lila Daum Fredenburg, Rutgers University
Susan Gregory, Pioneer Library System, Norman, OK
Roderick MacNeil, Thomas Jefferson University
Marla Peppers, California State University, Los Angeles
Thomas Wilding, University of Arizona

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Champagne Dreams on a Minimal Budget: Cost Conscious Library Space Designs
Sponsor: LLAMA BES
ALA Annual 2009 (Chicago)

The library customer not only wants, but expects more from libraries now. Three library systems will show how they made budget conscious designs work to meet their changing service models. Some libraries have expanded into the strip malls of America while other libraries have transformed those existing worn-out spaces into sizzling hot new places. One solution does not meet all needs so see what has worked for Queens, NY, Norfolk, VA. and Mount Prospect, IL.

Speakers: Kimberly Bolan, Queens Library Consultant; Norman L. Maas, Norfolk Public Library; Marilyn Genther, Mount Prospect Public Library

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Entries for the 63rd John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award are being accepted now through Dec. 4 by the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA).

Inaugurated in 1946, the John Cotton Dana Award honors outstanding library public relations programs that support a specific project, goal or activity, or a sustained, ongoing program (e.g. the promotion of a summer reading program, a year-long centennial celebration, fundraising for a new college library, an awareness campaign or an innovative partnership in the community). Winning entries receive $5,000 for their organizations, courtesy of the award’s sponsor, the H.W. Wilson Company.

“We encourage all libraries regardless of their size or budget to consider applying for the John Cotton Dana Award. Wonderful things are happening across this Country and internationally that should be shared with everyone,” said Linda Holtslander, chair of LLAMA’s John Cotton Dana Committee. “Campaigns that win this prestigious award are those that implement a thoroughly creative plan that communicates the many valuable services and programs provided by libraries to meet the increasing needs of their customers.”

The contest is open to all libraries and agencies that promote library service. Entries can be for calendar year 2009 (January-December), school year 2008-2010 (Fall-Spring) or any special project that ends in 2009.

For an entry form, checklist, guidelines and tips, visit the H.W. Wilson web site at http://www.hwwilson.com/jcdawards/nw_jcd.htm

For examples of the 2009 winning entries, visit http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/llama/committees/publicrelations/index.cfm

John Cotton Dana (1856 -1929) was a highly influential American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading. He was a public librarian for forty years and an early president of the ALA.

An icon in the library community for more than 100 years, H.W. Wilson (www.hwwilson.com) is dedicated to providing the highest-quality web and print resources in the world. H.W. Wilson products are familiar to generations of library users as standard tools in college, public, school, and professional libraries worldwide.

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For the 2009/2010 membership year, the ALA Handbook of Organization will not be produced in a print, paper format.  There will also not be a PDF version online, as a substantial part of the cost of the Handbook is the preparation of the files to prepare the “typeset” committee information pages which form the basis for the PDF version as is currently online.

Recognizing that the Handbook serves two general purposes—record of the organization and guide to its activities and policies—two versions of Handbook information will be prepared:
1) Online, web-based Handbook information pages
2) Print copies of selected web pages, plus a report produced from iMIS of all committee rosters, to be bound and kept in the ALA Library and Archives (iMIS is the ALA membership management system).

Online Handbook of Organization
The Online Handbook will consist of an introductory page, plus a table of contents consisting of links to the elements of the Handbook, which will be resident elsewhere on the ALA website.  The following outline is for the current Table of Contents; the actual sequence and terms may vary slightly.

Quick Reference
Ways to Get Involved in ALA
Membership Categories and forms
ALA Ahead to 2010 Strategic Plan
Dates to Remember — link to a special landing page explaining calendar options
ALA Office locations
ALA Staff Directory
ALA Offices — list of office charges
Structure and Governance
Charter of 1879
Mission, Membership, Organization, Motto (needs some editing)
Officers and Executive Board
Council
Committees — link to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/committees/index.cfm, though there will be a listing of charges, without rosters attached for reference purposes
Constitution and Bylaws
ALA Policy Manual — plus Current Reference File
Divisions–link to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/divisions.cfm, but also with listing of division charges
Round Tables—same
Member Initiative Groups — link
Other Groups and Organizations
Chapters
ALA Student Chapter Groups
Other Organizations — link
Affiliates
Appendices
ALA Membership by States — report to be prepared and added to web
ALA Awards, Scholarships, Study Grants, Conference Sponsorships, and Research Grants — link to Awards database, which will include all of these
Acronyms & Abbreviations
Corporate Member Recognition — link to up to date page
Honorary Members — link to up to date page
ALA Presidents, Treasurers, Secretaries, and Executive Directors – page to be created
Past Conferences, 1876–2008 – page being created
American Library Association Periodicals page

Using online information for the reference materials will ensure that each page is up-to-date, not just at printing, but whenever an edit is needed, due to an action of Council, a periodical price change, etc.  Each page linked to the Handbook will be marked with a “pod” providing one-click access back to the Handbook table of contents.

Roster information
Roster information will be made available, not through the PDF output of the traditional Handbook pages, but rather on a committee by committee basis.  The Web Editorial Board has defined a Committee page template, which includes a heading for the roster, which will be generated from iMIS, using the already established code.  The public view of the roster will include only name and committee position; the member view of the roster will include full roster information.

This portion of the Online Handbook will only be as good as the contributing units make it; if the committee page is not prepared, its roster will not be available for consultation.  However, members may request from the staff liaison for each and every committee or other unit of organization a roster of current members.

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Listening to the Customer: Using Assessment Results to Make a Difference

Sponsor: LLAMA LOMS

ALA Annual 2009 (Chicago)

This valuable program reviews three different outcome-based assessment tools being successfully used by large and small universities and statewide public libraries. The program focus is on how the tools (i.e. outcomes assessment, LIB-QUAL and self-developed customer surveys, Balanced Score Card) are being used to make positive improvements in library services or programs based on the results of the assessment conducted. Speakers: Catherine Harris, Information Literacy Coordinator, CSU-LA; Dr. Richard Moniz, Director, Johnson and Wales University; Annie Norman, State Librarian, State Library of Delaware.

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In addition to LLAMA’s great programs, there are dozens of meetings and special events of note at the upcoming conference:
 
Friday, July 10
Building Blocks 101:  A Space Planning Guide with Hands-On Experience
Come experience the wonders of the Chicago Merchandise Mart. Learn how to use basic planning guidelines and the new edition of “Building Blocks” to plan your next renovation/expansion or new building. Case studies of both public and academic libraries. Tours of furniture showrooms will complete this exciting day.  Speakers: Barbara Norland, Senior Librarian, Building Projects, District of Columbia Public Library; James Lutz, Texas Christian University; Denelle Wrightson, PSA-Dewberry Architects.  Fees: ALA Member $200; LLAMA Member $150; Non-Member $300; Student $100

Development’s Next Top Model:  Best Practices in Fund Raising
Program will highlight best practices for capital and annual-giving campaigns: put a new face on old practices with smart, unique strategy plans for every type of library. A panel of experts revamps donor recognition with a complete make-over; from friend-raising to fund-raising, learn innovative ways of building affiliations and honoring donors. Participants will focus on edgy “e”-merging technologies, the latest trends to date. This exciting day is designed to put you on the fundraising runway. Speakers: Dana Rooks, Dean of Libraries, University of Houston; Susan Hyatt, Director of Development, The Gelman Library System, The George Washington University; Peter Pearson, President, Library Strategies: A Consulting Group of the Friends of the Saint Paul Pu; Tricia Ambler, Client Services Manager, WealthEngine.com; George Needham, Vice President, Member Services, OCLC, Inc. Fees: ALA Member $175; LLAMA Member $125;  Non-Member $275; Student $75

Uncommonly Sustainable: The New Information Commons at Loyola University Chicago
This day-long preconference examines the planning, design, and features of the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons. Spanning four floors, the facility includes smart group rooms and a digital media lab. Assistance is available on all floors. The facility is LEED registered, and utilizes numerous energy efficient technologies. Presenters include the architect, dean of libraries, director of the Information Commons, and facilities managers. There will be ample time to tour the facility and see the infrastructure that supports it.  Speakers:  Leslie M. Haas, Director, Klarchek Information Commons, University Libraries, Loyola University Chicago; Robert Seal, Dean, University Libraries, Loyola University Chicago, Library; Jeannette Pierce, Head, Reference, Loyola University Chicago, Library; Devon Patterson, Architect, Solomon Cordwell Buenz; Bruce Montes, Loyola University Chicago, Information Services; Wayne Sliwa, Loyola University Chicago, Facilities. Fees: ALA Member $135; LLAMA Member $85; Non-Member $235; Student $50
       
Saturday, July 11
The LLAMA Board of Directors will meet Saturday, July 11, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, McCormick Place, W-176a, and Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 am – 12:00 noon, in the same location.

Learn about everything LLAMA at LLAMA 101, Saturday 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom IV.

LLAMA Diversity Officer’s Discussion Group; 8:00 – 10:00 am, Sheraton, Parlor C

LLAMA Middle Management Interest Group, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Hilton, Conference Room 4F

LLAMA BES Library Interiors Discussion Group, 1:30 – 3:00 pm, Hilton, Conference Room 4A

LLAMA FRFDS Development Issues Discussion Group, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Hilton, PDR 4

LLAMA MAES Discussion Group, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Hilton, Lake Huron

Sunday, July 12
LLAMA PRMS Swap ‘n’ Shop, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm McCormick Place Exhibit Floor – Special Events Area

Author and consultant Patricia Martin will speak at the LLAMA President’s Program, 1:30-3:00 pm, Fairmont, International Ballroom. Martin is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the emerging marketplace created by the convergence of art, entertainment, education, and technology; and she is the author of RenGen: Renaissance Generation–The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What It Means to Your Business.

LLAMA’s Meet & Greet, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Westin, Astor Court, is a great opportunity for current and prospective members to network, talk with LLAMA leaders, and become more involved in LLAMA activities. 

LLAMA HRS Union Relations for Managers Discussion Group, 8:00 – 10:00 am, Sheraton, Parlor C

LLAMA SASS Circulation/Access Services Discussion Group, 8:00 – 10:00 am, Hilton, Northwest 5

LLAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Sheraton, Missouri

LLAMA BES Moving Libraries Discussion Group, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Sheraton, Arkansas

LLAMA BES Safety and Security Discussion, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, Hilton, PDR 4

LLAMA Storage Discussion Group, 3:30 – 5:30 pm Hilton, Lake Erie

LLAMA LOMS Fiscal and Business Officers Discussion Group, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Hilton, PDR 4

LLAMA LOMS Organizational Development Discussion Group, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Sheraton, Michigan

Monday, July 13
LLAMA FRFDS Fund Fare, Forever Green: Updating Fundraising Basics for Growth and Sustainability, Monday 10:30 am – 12:00 noon, McCormick Place, W-470b.

2009 ALA/AIA Library Building Awards, Monday, 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Intercontinental, Grand Ballroom.  Biennially, representatives from the AIA and ALA gather to celebrate the finest examples of library design by architects licensed in the U.S. The 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards honor eight separate projects.  Recipients will be present their projects, and a reception follows at 5:30 pm, Grand Balcony.

LLAMA HRS Emerging Trends Discussion Group, 1:30 – 3:00 pm, Sheraton, Mayfair

LLAMA Dialog with Directors Discussion Group; 3:30 – 5:30 pm, Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom 1

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