MARS Chair’s Program at Annual
Please plan to join us on Sunday June 26 from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm for an exciting MARS Chair’s program at ALA Annual in New Orleans! It’s All About Them: Developing Information Services with User...
View ArticleManagement of Electronic Reference Services (MERS) Committee
MERS co-hosted a discussion forum with the Public Libraries Committee (PL) at ALA Midwinter 2011 titled Assessment and Evaluation of Virtual Reference. Twenty-five of our colleagues joined us for an...
View ArticleMessage from the Chair
Hello all Reference Services Section members! Although RSS officially participated virtually in the recent ALA Midwinter 2011, there was a great deal of real RSS activity and there are many people to...
View ArticleDiscussions at Midwinter
The new Discussion Forums Coordinating Committee is pleased to report on three well-attended and highly successful discussion that took place at the 2011 Midwinter Conference in San Diego: When We...
View ArticleCommittee Reports
Catalog Use Catalog Use Committee met virtually for its Midwinter meeting on February 4,. We are planning a discussion forum for ALA Annual in New Orleans: Diving into the Deep End: What are the...
View ArticleMessage from the Chair
Hello everyone! With all the snow and ice that many of us have been experiencing lately, San Diego seems like a lovely dream even though we were there just a few short weeks ago! For those of you who...
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STARS Education and Training Committee The STARS Education and Training Committee again sponsored the very popular Everything You Always Wanted to Know about ILL but Were Afraid to ask ALA Midwinter...
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Codes, Guidelines and Technical Standards The Committee reviewed the Guidelines for Interlibrary Loan Operations Management document, which was sent back to the Committee from the RUSA Standards &...
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Reader’s Advisory The Reader’s Advisory is interested in running a survey in 2011 to gather more data about academic readers’ advisory service. Collection Development Planning and Assessment Collection...
View ArticleCODES
Vicki Bloom, Editor CODES is doing lots of exciting work. There are several programs at Annual that promise to be interesting and informative: ● Reader’s Advisory Trends Forum: Saturday from 4:00...
View ArticleBRASS Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship...
Our committee has received a number of nominations for this year’s award, and we have found that there are many ways to exemplify excellence in business librarianship! We are very excited about...
View ArticleBRASS Gale Cengage Student Travel Award Committee
Several nominations have been received for the BRASS Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award. The Committee will be reviewing the nominations in February to determine a winner. The award will...
View ArticleBRASS Publications Committee
In order to meet its new charge of keeping the BRASS web presence up-to-date and accurate, the committee has organized into teams of two members, with each team responsible for overseeing a particular...
View ArticleBRASS Conference Program Planning Committee
Social media is changing how the world communicates. This year’s BRASS conference program will focus on how business can successfully target social networking applications and how librarians can better...
View ArticleBRASS Nominating Committee
The committee is pleased to announce BRASS Candidates for the March 2011 elections: For Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2011/2012 as Vice-Chair, 2012/2013 as Chair) ● Greg Fleming ● Ann Fiegen For...
View ArticleBRASS Education Committee
The RUSA-BRASS Education Committee is hosting a preconference during the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans on Friday, June 24, 2011 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Business Reference 101: Core Competencies...
View ArticleBRASS Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee
The committee has been working on new issues of the online newsletter, Academic Brass. The Fall 2010 issue has been posted on the BRASS website and articles are being collected for the Spring 2011...
View ArticleMessage from the BRASS Chair
BRASS Notes Carol E. Smith, Editor Message from the BRASS Chair Dear BRASS Members, BRASS continued our virtual Mid-Winter meeting this year in sunny San Diego. While most of our BRASS Committees have...
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