The Official News of the ALA's Reference and User Services Association
Dear RUSA Members: June is finally here and I am looking forward to seeing many of you in Anaheim at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference. Our conference program lineup is outstanding this year – they promise to be fun and interesting, while covering topics from the ROI of virtual reference services and mining gold from the …
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Just a quick reminder that registration for RUSA’s online course “The Reference Interview” closes next Thursday! Sign up now using the online form, or download the printed registration form for faxing. Here’s the scoop: THE REFERENCE INTERVIEW offered by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Course dates: July 19 – August 27, 2010 What …
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We are expanding this year’s CODES Literary Tastes breakfast program to offer authors that will appeal to a variety of book readers. We are featuring authors from the well-known Notable Books Council List for America’s Readers (fiction, non-fiction, poetry), Sophie Brody Medal list (of distinguished contribution to Jewish literature for adults) and, new this year, …
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The rooftop of the ALA Tower in Second Life was getting crowded by the time I dragged myself away to the other duties I have (two Web courses launched this week, reprint of Reference Collection Development due, getting awards pages updated and posted, and so on). We were all in the same training room, yet …