http://www.apalaweb.org/2012/05/speed-networking-socialdinner/

http://www.apalaweb.org/2012/05/apala-cultural-field-trip/

Please join us and spread the word!

Many, many thanks to Alvin, Shoko, Cathy, Cynthia and Chris for all of your hard work on these events!

Catherine received her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) in 2009. At SLIS, she gained a variety of experiences working in and with libraries and librarians across the university and the state. Past positions include assistant to the Southeast Asian Bibliographer, reference and information services assistant at MERIT Education Library, and founding member of SLIS’s Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums project and class. Catherine is an active member of several professional organizations, but is especially excited to be a new member of APALA and she looks forward to meeting fellow APALA members in the future.

APALA provides a forum for discussing problems of APA librarians and for the exchange of ideas between APA librarians and other librarians, supports and encourages library services to APA communities, recruits and mentors APA librarians in the library/information science professions, seeks funding for scholarships in library/information science master’s programs, and provides a vehicle enabling APA librarians to cooperate with other associations and organizations with similar or allied interests. To become an APALA member, visit our website http://www.apalaweb.org/

The selection committee includes Shalini Channapatna, Tassanee Chitcharoen, Jina Park, Safi Safiullah , Gayatri Singh, and Michelle Wu.

Past Travel Grant Winners
Cynthia Mari Orozco (2011)
Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozado (2010)
Sally Ma (2009)

APALA’s Speed Networking, Social & Dinner

Saturday, June 23, 2012, 6-9 p.m.

Ten Ten Seafood Restaurant, 669 North Euclid Street Anaheim, CA 92801*

*3.8 miles away from the Anaheim Convention Center

Speed Networking/Eat ‘n’ Greet:

• 6-7 p.m.
• Appetizers provided

Social & Dinner:

• 7-9 p.m.
• Chinese banquet style
• Vegetarian option available
• Tentative menu: Sizzling rice soup, honey walnut shrimp, pepper salt squid, crispy deep fried chicken, sweet & sour pork, beef with broccoli, assorted pan fried noodle, assorted fried rice

Prices: $30 for APALA members/$40 for non-members before June 1 ($5 discount for APALA booth volunteers)

$35 for APALA members/$45 for non-members after May 31 ($5 discount for APALA booth volunteers)

To volunteer for the APALA Affilliates booth, please contact Ven Basco at Buenaventura.Basco [at] ucf.edu

Questions regarding the speed networking, social & dinner? Contact Candice Mack at candice [at] tinylibrarian.com

APALA’s CULTURAL FIELD TRIP

Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Cultural Field Trip Itinerary:

9:00 a.m. – Bus leaves from entrance of Anabella Hotel in Anaheim for LA

10:30 a.m. – Arrive in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

11:00 a.m. – Tour of Japanese American National Museum (JANM) & Hirasaki National Resource Center (library & archives)

12:00 p.m. – Lunch on your own in Little Tokyo

1:00 p.m. – Meet in front of JANM for walking tour of Little Tokyo, provided by Little Tokyo Historical Society

3:00 p.m. – Meet in front of JANM for return trip to Anaheim

4:30 p.m. – Arrive at entrance of Anabella Hotel in Anaheim

Prices: $30 for APALA members/$40 for non-members before June 1 ($5 discount for APALA booth volunteers)

$35 for APALA members/$45 for non-members after May 31 ($5 discount for APALA booth volunteers)

To volunteer for the APALA Affilliates booth, please contact Ven Basco at Buenaventura.Basco [at] ucf.edu

Questions regarding the speed networking, social & dinner? Contact Candice Mack at candice [at] tinylibrarian.com

Please mark your calendar for many exciting APALA events during ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California which will be held in June 21 – 26, 2012.

On behalf of the APALA Executive Board, we hope to see many of you!

Friday, June 22, 2012

9:00 am-4:30 pm

APA(LA) : APALA in LA Field Trip to Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo 

Location: Downtown Los Angeles (Reservation and payment information will be on our Webpage very soon.  Please check back at http://www.apalaweb.org/ )

7:30-9:30pm 

APALA Executive Board Meeting 

Location: HIL-Capistrano

Saturday, June 23, 2012

8:00-10:00am

Diversity Council Program: Diversity begins at home: Valuing every kind of difference

Location: ACC-208B

1:00-2:30pm

Family Literacy Focus Committee/Talk Story Poster Session:  Weaving Successful Partnerships: Creating a Sustainable Family Literacy Program

Location:  Exhibits Hall, Anaheim Convention Center, Table 5

3:30-5:30pm 

Diversity & Outreach Fair – APALA Booth 

Location: Exhibits Hall, Anaheim Convention Center

6:00-9:00 pm 

APALA Speed Networking, Dinner & Social

Location: TenTen Seafood Restaurant, 669 North Euclid St., Anaheim, CA 92801

Sunday, June 24, 2012

8:00am-10:00am

APALA Literary Awards

Location: ACC-207C

10:30am-12:00pm

APALA and REFORMA President’s Program:  Beyond Books: Graphic Novels and Magazines of Color

Location:  ACC-207D

1:30-3:30pm

APALA Program:  So You Think You Can Write:  Librarians Gather & Preserve Our Community History 

Location: ACC-208B

Over the weekend, I and a few other APALA members (Eileen Bosch, Young Lee, Candice Mack, Cynthia Mari Orozco, and Heawon Paick) had the great honor of presenting a poster at the OC REFORMA Chapter‘s “Library Leadership for the 21st Century” conference which was sponsored by the Seeds to Trees:  Growing the Librarians of Tomorrow from High School Diploma to MLIS with the Santa Ana Public Library, which Eileen helped to coordinate.

The Seeds to Trees program is pretty awesome.  The librarians at the Santa Ana public library noticed that many of their teen volunteers were so active in the library that they eventually became pages and clerks, some became librarians, and some moved into admin library positions.  They created this program through a Laura Bush grant to foster those teens and their drive to become professionals.  Many of these teens are first generation college students, so part of the goal of the program is to give them mentors and sounding boards while going through school as well as teaching them the tools they’ll need to navigate a professional environment.

Cheryl Eberly, Santa Ana Public Library

The day began with a talk by Cheryl Eberly (Santa Ana Public Library), one of the creators of the program who gave us an overview.  Then, Luis Herrera (San Francisco City Librarian andLibrary Journal’s 2012 Librarian of the Year) was invited to speak.  He spoke about the increasing digital and content divide, to always push yourself and grow (“Feel the fear but deliver”), and to use power and prestige to create positive change in your community and not to use them for vanity.  Leadership goes beyond the self.  All that I got out of that amazing talk will have to be saved for a different blog, but I am just going to say this.  Out of all of the speeches and rallies I heard in Emerging Leaders, this one would have been most helpful.  And probably for a variety of reasons, but I’ll go into that in my next blog post.  After Luis Herrera was lunch and then the poster sessions.

SF City Librarian Luis Herrera and La Verne Law Librarian Young Lee

The poster sessions were all really fabulous!  My favorite was by Young Lee, La Verne University’s Law Librarian.  He created this amazing 3-D, interactive display on Why Librarianship, Law Librarians, and What he does all day.  He definitely blew all of us out of the water.  My poster was on being a children’s librarian and all of the fun we have and how 2 days are never the same.  The students were really engaged in our posters and asked us pertinent questions.  My table had pixie stix, so they also enjoyed that, although I’m sure they were just super interested in becoming Children’s Librarians.

Overall, the afternoon was really great and I’m thankful I got to participate.  One of the problems that I have with a poster session is that I always forget stuff.  People come and go so quickly that I forget to mention things like my work outside of the library – in associations, in my everyday life – which was funny and frustrating since my poster was titled “Librarianship is a Lifestyle Choice” (the guy at Kinkos told me that “Some people say you’re born with it” hahaha).  Oh well, hopefully the kids still got something out of what I was able to share with them.  I know I sure did!

 

SF City Librarian Luis Herrera and La Verne Law Librarian Young Lee

Cheryl Eberly, Santa Ana Public Library

Member-at-Large Rich Kong has decided to step down from the APALA Executive Board effective June 1, 2012.  Richard has been an active member of APALA and will continue to be involved with the organization in other ways so we will see him around.  We wish Rich the best.

Janet Clarke has been appointed to fill Rich’s position as Member-at-Large effective June 1st through the end of annual ALA 2013.  Many of you have met Janet through our socials and programs at ALA.  Please join me in welcoming Janet to the Executive Board.

See you all at ALA in a few months!

Sandy Wee, President

Are you interested in diversity and outreach?

Are you seeking more ways to get involved professionally?

Then, APALA wants you!

We’re looking for enthusiastic members to help man APALA’s booth at the Diversity and Outreach Fair at ALA Annual.

The Fair is on Saturday, 6/23/12, from 3-5 p.m. in the Exhibits Hall, and with set-up and clean-up, we need volunteers from 2:30-5:30 p.m.

So far, we only have one volunteer, so if we can get two or more additional folks, each person could take a one hour shift (2:30-3:30 p.m., 3:30-4:30 p.m., 4:30-5:30 p.m.)

If you are interested in helping out and giving back to the APALA community, please email me (candice@tinylibrarian.com) your contact information and when you are available to assist by June 2nd.  I will email shift confirmations by June 9th.

Many thanks in advance & hope to see you in Anaheim,

Candice Mack
Teen Services Librarian
Central Library – Teen’Scape
Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. 5th St., LA, CA 90071
Email: iheartbookn@gmail.com
Twitter: tinylibrarian

• Vice-President/President Elect Eugenia Beh
• Treasurer Shoko Tokoro (2^nd term begins after 2012 ALA annual)
• Secretary Lessa Pelayo-Lozada (2^nd term begins after 2012 ALA annual)
• Member-at-Large Tina Chan (2012-2014)
• Member-at-Large Alanna Aiko Moore (2012-2014)

A big thank you to the following for their energy and enthusiasm for the past year. Their term will end after 2012 ALA annual:

• Immediate Past President:  Florante Peter Ibanez
• Vice President/President Elect Jade Alburo
• Treasurer Shoko Tokoro
• Secretary Lessa Pelayo-Lozada
• Member-at-Large Eugenia Beh
• Member-at-Large Eileen Bosch

Jade received the award for her research proposal, “Library Services and Collections for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs).” Her research will focus on collecting data on the information needs of NHPI college students, as well as to learn about existing academic NHPI services. This research grant will allow her to facilitate focus group discussions and conduct in-depth interviews with student groups and administrators and staff of existing PI programs.   The findings will assist the library community in developing targeted services and collections for NHPI college students.  Jade plans on sharing her findings during a presentation at the APALA-sponsored panel on NHPI services at the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color 2012.

The APALA Sheila Suen Lai Research Grant is an annual, juried grant of up to $1,000 awarded to an APALA member to engage in a research activity, which contributes to the field of library and information science in general and Asian and Pacific American (APA) librarianship in particular. The grant award may be used for conducting research projects, attending research related conferences and workshops or conducting research workshops and programs.

Ms. Sheila Suen Lai, the founder of the Grant, is retired from the California University at Sacramento, where she worked as a reference librarian.  She has delegated to APALA the full responsibility for selecting and awarding one qualified recipient every year.

The selection committee includes Safi Safiullah, Gayatri Singh, and Michelle Wu.

APALA provides a forum for discussing problems of APA librarians and for the exchange of ideas between APA librarians and other librarians; supports and encourages library services to APA communities; recruits and mentors APA librarians in the library/information science professions; seeks funding for scholarships in library/information science master’s programs; and provides a vehicle enabling APA librarians to cooperate with other associations and organizations with similar or allied interests.  To become an APALA member, visit our website http://www.apalaweb.org/.