By Bergis Jules
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July 19, 2008
So apparently librarians can sing. And the full house at the RUSA President’s Program got to experience the amazing talents of a group of reference librarians as they did their own version of YMCA only replacing those infamous letters with RUSA and adding their own verses. Read More »
By Bergis Jules
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July 16, 2008
One of the more thought provoking sessions I attended was a discussion on whether or not the Black male librarian was becoming invisible or whether he had existed at all in the library profession. The session moderator was Julius Jefferson, a researcher at the Library of Congress and the event was sponsored by the BCALA (Black Caucus of the American Library Association). A very impressive panel of presenters gave their views on the issue after Julius presented his statistics. He pointed out that a little more than .5 percent of credentialed librarians are black males of a total of 572 out of 110,000. Read More »
By Bergis Jules
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July 16, 2008
The RUSA New Chair Orientation gave me a good overview of how the organization runs as a whole. This was the session where new RUSA President Neal Wyatt welcomed all the new committee chairs and gave them more information about their tasks but mostly the session was about functions, procedures Read More »
By Bergis Jules
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July 16, 2008
This is the first time I have attended RUSA programs at ALA. I am very grateful to RUSA and President Neal Wyatt for choosing me as this year’s Spectrum Intern. I must say that the first program I attended as the RUSA intern was very interesting and I did not expect it to be. I accompanied Neal Wyatt to the ALA Awards Committee meeting. This is the committee that approves or denies proposals for awards. I witnessed the excitement and dissappointment of both of these outcomes while at the meeting. Read More »
