[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [alacro-l] Coalition Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy at ALA Annual Conference]

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI

Suzanne L. Sager
ALA Oregon Chapter Councilor


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Contact: Marci Merola

                                                                                                                
Director,

ALA Office for Library Advocacy

                                                                                                                                                
312-280-2431

                                                                                                                                                
mmerola at ala.org <mailto:mmerola at ala.org>

                                                                                                            



  Coalition Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy at ALA Annual
  Conference


CHICAGO – Join ALA President Jim Rettig; moderator Jan Sanders, Director 
of Libraries and Information Services for the City of Pasadena, Calif.; 
and others for “Coalition Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy” 
during ALA’s 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago.

 

The program will take place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 
11, at McCormick Place West, Room 196b,* and will *focus on the value of 
building statewide coalitions during times of economic downturn and the 
concept of the “Library Ecosystem,” or how libraries of all types are 
interdependent.

 

Panelists include Donna Bero, Friends of the San Francisco Public 
Library; Gerri Fegan, President of the Massachusetts School Library 
Association; Pat Harris, Councilman and Trustee, St. Paul, Minn.; Carole 
Kupelian, President of the School Library Media Section of NYLA; and 
Anne Masters, Director of the Pioneer Library System in Oklahoma.

 

For more information on the panel discussion and the “Library 
Ecosystem”, please visit, http://www.ala.org/libraryecosystem.

 

“Coalition Building for All Libraries in a Tough Economy” at the 2009 
ALA Annual Conference is sponsored by the Advocacy Training Subcommittee 
of the ALA Committee on Library Advocacy, the ALA Chapter Relations 
Committee, the Committee on Legislation, and Jim Rettig’s Ad Hoc Task 
Force on Advocacy. It is coordinated by the Office for Library Advocacy 
<http://www.ala.org/ola/> (OLA). 

 

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Jaclyn Finneke, Communications Specialist

Office for Library Advocacy

American Library Association

50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611

312.280.2428; 800.545.2433, x2428

jfinneke at ala.org <mailto:jfinneke at ala.org>

 

 


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Suzanne L. Sager
Library East, Cataloging
Portland State University

503-725-8169
503-725-5799
sagers at pdx.edu

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