Act now! Reduced preconference fee for LIS students

Attn: Future Librarians The fee for ACRL Oregon’s preconference Managing Vendor Relationships has been lowered to $45 for LIS students! Register at the OLA website (A button is being added for students in the form, but if you encounter any problems, please contact Jane Scott.) Rice Majors (Emporia SLIM alum) has gathered a top notch group [...]

ACRL Oregon sponsored events @ OLA 2011 Conference (Salem, Oregon April 6th-8th)

PRECONFERENCE: Managing Vendor Relationships (April 6th): Panels and speakers will address multiple dimensions of managing relationships with library vendors. Topics for the day will include building an understanding of how a software company works and why library vendors behave as they do; thoughts on how to “fix” a “bad” relationship with a vendor; the pros [...]

Words, words, words (and pictures!)

  At the recent ACRL Oregon/Washington Joint Annual Conference at Menucha one of the ways we asked participants to contribute to the discussion about futures thinking was to write on some big sheets of paper posted at the back of the room.  It was fun to watch these sheets fill up as the conference went [...]

Menucha Recap

The ACRL OR/WA joint fall conference was held just over a week ago at Menucha. The weather was beautiful, the speakers truly amazing, and the opportunity to gather with colleagues a delight. Read a full report about the conference to learn more. You can also watch videos of the conference intro, opening keynote, closing keynote, [...]

Alliance Research Interest Group meeting at Menucha

If you going to the ACRL-OR conference Thursday, October 28 and Friday, October 29 at Menucha and are interested in learning more about the Alliance Research Interest Group (even if you are not part of an Orbis Cascade Alliance library), please join us at dinner at Menucha on Thursday night at 6 p.m.. I look [...]

The ACRL Oregon Fall Conference Scholarship Winners Are …

Join the ACRL Oregon Board in congratulating Amy Hofer (Portland State University) and Nyssa Walsh (Oregon Health & Sciences University) — our 2010 ACRL Oregon & Washington Joint Fall Conference Scholarship Winners!

Fall Conference – Registration Deadline EXTENDED to Wednesday, October 20, 2010

If we knew today what we’ll know tomorrow:  Futures thinking for academic libraries  October 28-29, 2010 at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center, Corbett, Oregon As ACRL Oregon celebrates its 35th anniversary, we’ll take the opportunity to look into the future instead of examining the past.  What hopes, expectations, and fears do we have for [...]

ACRL Oregon Fall Conference Scholarship Applications Now Available!

Apply for a scholarship to attend the ACRL-OR/WA Fall Conference! ACRL-Oregon invites library school students and first-time Fall Conference attendees from Oregon to submit an application to win a scholarship that covers registration (including food and lodging). The fall conference is October 28-29, 2010, at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center. The scholarship application deadline [...]

2010 ACRL-OR/WA Fall Conference Registration Opens!

Registration is now open for the 2010 ACRL Oregon & Washington Fall Conference at the Menucha Retreat and Conference Center! Join academic librarians from across the Pacific Northwest as we discuss the future of libraries with a great slate of speakers including David Silver (associate professor of media studies at University of San Francisco), Elizabeth [...]

Last call for Menucha lightning talks!

We’ll be making our selections for Ignite-style lightning talks to be given at the ACRL OR/WA Annual Joint Conference at Menucha at the beginning of August.  Submit your ideas today! You have 5 minutes and 20 slides to tell your colleagues from Oregon and Washington academic libraries what you think about the future!  What will you [...]

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