Guest Speaker from Minitex

At the next ALASC meeting, we will be talking about Minitex! Our guest speaker, Carla Pfahl, is a Reference Outreach & Instruction Librarian and the Coordinator of AskMN, Minnesota’s statewide 24/7 virtual reference service. As a consortial librarian with Minitex, Carla enjoys working to support libraries, librarians, and library services across Minnesota.

Please join us to learn more about Minitex:

Tuesday, March 16th - 5:00-5:45 PM

Link to join: meet.google.com/iof-norc-uqr

OR join by phone: (US) +1 984-221-1329‬ PIN: ‪871 318 011‬#

ALA Scholarship Program

More than $300,000 is available annually through the ALA Scholarship Program for those studying in an MLIS program. Submissions are due March 1, 2021. If interested, you can check the individual scholarship guidelines and apply here: https://bit.ly/2AVlEzn

Spring 2021 Meetings

 

We hope you'll join us for our Spring 2021 meetings! We'll be meeting virtually on Google Meet every 3rd Tuesday each month from 5:00-5:45pm. 

 

 

The meeting ID will be:

meet.google.com/iof-norc-uqr

 

 

ALA Midwinter Virtual Registration

The ALA Midwinter Virtual is coming up January 22-26, 2021! This event is free for ALA members, and the registration deadline is January 19. 

 

The event will feature:

-Symposium on the Future of Libraries, offering sessions on future trends to inspire innovation in libraries

-News You Can Use with updates that highlight new research, innovations, and advances in libraries

-Interactive author events

-Awards celebrations

-The Library Marketplace: Exhibitors, Stages & Resources with NEW Presentation Stages

-Live Chats

-Networking opportunities

 

More information here: https://2021.alamidwinter.org/

 

 

 

Mapping Prejudice Training Session

September 2

7:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.

Via Zoom

Register here!

*You must register at the link above to receive the Zoom meeting link.

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To build community awareness about housing injustice, Mapping Prejudice and St. Catherine University are mobilizing volunteers to document racial covenants in Ramsey County. Racial covenants were legal clauses embedded in property deeds that barred people who were not white from buying or occupying land. Elders have known for decades that covenants were widespread. But even with that community wisdom, there is a lot that we don’t know. How common were these restrictions? What areas of our community were reserved for white people only? How much land was restricted in this way? When were they put into place? What did they say? What are the legacies of these practices today?

Help us make a map that can answer these questions. As we do this research together, we will explore the connections between past injustices and present disparities. This is the first step towards meaningful change.

This online training session will teach you what you need to know to contribute to this project.

Two online videos can be helpful as you get ready to do this work. “Jim Crow of the North” will explain the history behind this map. And this Mapping Prejudice training video will show you what we need volunteers to do.