ALA/LLA Volunteer Day in New Orleans:
A Local Touch
The American Library Association
will host its first Volunteer Day at the 1998 winter meeting in New Orleans.
The event, co-sponsored by the Louisiana Library Association, will be held
the afternoon of Friday, January 9th and the morning of Saturday, January
10th. Members may register for the volunteer day by checking the appropriate
box on the midwinter conference registration form published in the September
issue of American Libraries. A registration fee of $5 will be used
to provide t-shirts for the volunteers, who will receive a follow up mailing
to allow them to choose times and activities.
In keeping with Barbara Ford's
presidential theme of "Global Reach, Local Touch," ALA volunteers will
have an opportunity to promote library services and make a personal contribution
to the local community. Activities, such as read-alouds, puppetry, Internet
training, storytelling, and shelf reading will take place in area libraries
including New Orleans and Jefferson Parish Public Libraries, Orleans public
schools, Dillard University, and Southern University.
Transportation will be provided
to and from the local libraries, and lists of appropriate reading materials
for the read-alouds/storytelling will be provided.
More information will appear
on the website as it becomes available: http://info.jefferson.lib.co.us/alavol.htm.
LIRT News, December 1997.
Volume 20, number 2.
To report problems, please
contact the LIRT News Production editor at
edwards@ufl.edu
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