The Georgia Library Association Awards Committee seeks nominations for the 2020 GLA Awards. Winners will be recognized at the 2020 Georgia Libraries Conference in Macon. GLA has a variety of awards to celebrate individual or team contributions to libraries or to the state organization. Do you know anyone who is: A GLA member who has…
The Society of Georgia Archivists Annual Meeting Program Committee proudly presents the theme for the 2020 conference: Building Partnerships and Dismantling Barriers. The Committee invites you to attend the meeting, to be held in Jekyll Island, Georgia, November 11 – 13. As we move into a new decade, our 2020 program will focus on how…
Updated 04/01/2020 Useful links from the State Librarian Julie Walker University System of Georgia Learning Everywhere – https://www.usg.edu/learningeverywhere Georgia public libraries and COVID-19 update – https://georgialibraries.org/coronavirusupdate/ Updated 03/18/2020 GLA is using our role as a leader and advocate of Georgia libraries to call on all public and academic libraries in Georgia to close their doors…
The Georgia Library Association’s first Membership Campaign will take place during National Library Week, April 19-25, 2020. Tell someone (or two) about the benefits of GLA membership and invite them to join. During National Library Week, the online membership form will have a space for the person you recruit to enter your name. You will earn a chance to…
By Minna Pritchard Have you heard the Word on the Street? Fulton County Library System is now serving Fulton citizens on brand new wheels—14 of them. Two 24-Foot Techmobiles, aptly coined the Innovation Stations, and an electric Word on the Street Bike has joined the system to provide innovative STEAM activities and curated book collections to…
On Friday April 17th from 9:00am – 12:00pm, the Georgia Library Association’s Research and Assessment Interest Group and Distance Learning Interest Group are teaming up to host a virtual meeting all about research and assessment as it relates to librarians’ distance learning efforts. This meeting will feature a keynote address from Emory University’s Jennifer Sutcliffe,…
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 4, for the 2020 Georgia Archives Symposium. This year’s topic, From Field to Mill Town: Cotton and Textile Culture in Georgia, will feature a variety of presentations and a lunchtime slideshow of images from collections at the Georgia Archives. The symposium is from 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and is free…
On March 4th GLA President, Laura Burtle, and members of GLA distributed prints in appreciation to the offices of every state legislator at the Capitol. For many years, the Advocacy Committee has coordinated GLA’s Library Day at the Capitol, which is centered around library staff from various types of libraries distributing prints by artist Debi…
Georgia Library Association’s Circulation and Access Services (CAS) Interest Group and the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Interest Group invite you to our next library workshop. It will be held on Monday, March 30, 2020, from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Southwest Chatham Branch Library, a part of the Live Oak Public Libraries system in…