Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
We hope that 2012 was a good year for you and that 2013 will be even better.
To that end, why not start 2013 off right and check a few of the following off your list of resolutions?
- Be more social by attending APALA’s ALA Midwinter events.
- Pay it forward by being an APALA mentor (or learning as a protégé).
- Make APALA even more awesome by running for office.
Remember: Don’t just wish for a great 2013… Make it so!
APALA member named an ALA “I Love My Librarian Award” 2012 winner
Congratulations to APALA member Roberto C. Delgadillo on being one of the ten 2012 “I Love My Librarian Award” winners!
For more information: http://www.ilovelibraries.org/lovemylibrarian/2012/12winners
Three APALA members selected as 2013-2014 ARL Leadership and Career Development Fellows
Congratulations to
Jee Davis, University of Texas at Austin
Hana Kim, University of Toronto
Melanee Vicedo, University of Southern California
on being selected 2013-2014 ARL Leadership and Career Development Fellows!
For more information: http://www.arl.org/news/pr/LCDP-fellows-17dec12.shtml
Two APALA Members Selected as ARL’s Career Enhancement Program 2013 Fellows
Congratulations to Rose L. Chou and Charlotte Roh on being selected Association of Research Libraries (ARL)’s Career Enhancement Program 2013 Fellows!
More information can be found at: http://www.arl.org/news/pr/CEP-fellows-12dec12.shtml
Help Grow the Next Generation of Library Leaders! [UPDATED]
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Updated: January 5, 2013
We’re seeking protégés and mentors for our 2013-2014 Mentoring Program. The APALA Mentoring Program provides new and future librarians with professional and personal development, inspiration, and encouragement through supportive coaching and guidance. Mentoring establishes relationships between future librarians and established professionals in addition to enhancing communication and leadership in APALA, as well as the wider professional community.
Prospective protégés are library school students or librarians with no more than three years of professional experience. Protégés must be or agree to become APALA members for the duration of the program. Interested mentors are APALA members who possess at least three of years professional experience and are active in professional library associations.
For more information or to apply online to be a protégé or a mentor, visit APALA Mentoring Program at http://www.apalaweb.org/membership/mentoring-program/. The application deadline is January 4, 2013.
UPDATE: 2013 applications are now closed. However, please consider applying for 2014 when announcements are made toward the end of the year.
Toyota Financial Services continues sponsorship of AILA/APALA’s Talk Story project
Announced: December 14, 2012
The American Indian Library Association (AILA) and the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) are pleased to announce Toyota Financial Services will sponsor their Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture project for a second year. The sponsorship provides funding for family literacy programming grants awarded in early 2013.
Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture (www.talkstorytogether.org) is a joint family literacy project between AILA and APALA. Now in its fourth year, the program reaches out to American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and Asian Pacific American (APA) children and their families and celebrates and explores their stories through books, oral traditions and art to provide an interactive and enriching experience. AILA and APALA provide grants to libraries interested in implementing programs geared toward AIAN/APA communities. To date, thirteen Talk Story grants have been awarded.
Those in AILA and APALA are thrilled to have the opportunity to work again with Toyota Financial Services. Liana Juliano (AILA) and Lessa Pelayo-Lozada (APALA), chairpersons of the Talk Story Committee, comment [Toyota has] “been such a wonderful sponsor to work with and their continued support will allow us to fund deserving libraries for another year.”
Libraries can apply for a Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture grant through the Talk Story Together website. Applications will be accepted through February 15, 2013.
An affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), AILA is a member action group and addresses the library-related needs of American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Members are individuals and institutions interested in the development of programs to improve Indian library, cultural and informational services in school, public and research libraries on reservations. AILA is committed to disseminating information about Indian cultures, languages, values and their information needs to the library community. Additional information about AILA can be found at www.ailanet.org.
The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) was established in 1980 by librarians of diverse Asian/Pacific ancestries who were committed to create an organization that would address and support the needs of Asian/Pacific American librarians and those who serve Asian/Pacific American communities. In addition, over the years, APALA has granted numerous scholarships and awards. Additional information about APALA can be found at www.apalaweb.org.
Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture began as part of ALA 2009–2010 President Camila Alire’s Family Literacy Focus Initiative. The initiative encourages and inspires families in ethnically diverse communities to read and learn together through library-based family literacy programs emphasizing oral and written traditions and promoting reading, writing, and storytelling.
