Conference Details Registration is now open for the 2023 Georgia Libraries Conference (GLC). This year’s conference will be in-person October 4-6, 2023 in Athens, GA, with a virtual option to follow the next week October 10-12, on the Whova platform. Options include full conference registration, single day registration, and virtual conference registration. GLC is a… Continue Reading 2023 GLC Details & Registration
Academic Library Division Vice Chair / Chair Elect Laura Burtle, MSLS, JD Associate DeanScholarly Communications and Copyright LibrarianGeorgia State University Librarylburtle@gsu.edu | 404-413-2706 Laura Burtle is an Associate Dean in the Georgia State University Library, with responsibility for the areas of Collections & Discovery, Resource Acquisitions, Digital Library Services, and Scholarly Communications. She was chair… Continue Reading 2024 GLA Division Nominations
Vice President/President Elect Ben Carter Georgia Public Library Service Ben G. Carter joined GLA in 2002, as a library assistant presenting on teen library programming at our annual conference in Athens that October. Since that time, he has served GLA in numerous ways including work on both the Scholarship Committee (serving as Chair for 2018)… Continue Reading 2024 GLA Board Ballot
The Georgia Library Association invites proposals for panels and presentations for the Georgia Libraries Conference (GLC). This year’s conference will be held in-person October 4-6 , 2023 in Athens, GA. GLC is a place for our members and guests to showcase their professional and scholarly accomplishments with our profession at large. Our theme this year… Continue Reading Presentation Proposals: Georgia Libraries Conference 2023
The following amendments will appear on the upcoming election ballot: GLA Bylaws Article II. Section 2. Election a. Election ballots shall be made available to the membership by September 1.b. A plurality of the votes cast by September 20 by 20 days from the date when voting begins shall constitute an election for each office.… Continue Reading Constitution & Bylaws Amendments for Second Fall Election Ballot
GLA is thrilled to announce this year’s GLC Keynote Speaker: Cicely Lewis! Meet Cicely Lewis Named the 2020 National Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal and Scholastic, a 2019 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and the 2019 National Teacher Award for Lifelong Readers by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and… Continue Reading GLC 2022 Keynote Speaker: Cicely Lewis
The Executive Board and Constitution and Bylaws Committee will offer a set of amendments to the GLA Constitution & Bylaws for a vote on the September 2022 ballot. View the attached Amendments Explainer document (PDF) for the proposed changes and reason for the changes.
We are pleased to announce that the Preventive Conservation: Care of Archives, Art and Artifacts workshop, held 1-3 April, is now available both in-person and virtually through Teams! All workshops are open for registration, with the option of a discounted rate for signing up for all four. Preventive Conservation: Care of Archives, Art and Artifacts:… Continue Reading 2022 Georgia Archives Preventive Conservation Workshop Now Virtual
The Georgia Library Association’s mission is to provide leadership in empowering and supporting library and information professionals, and the diverse library community. GLA promotes professional growth, fosters innovation, creativity, expertise, and advocacy that advances and sustains library services throughout the state of Georgia. And this works because of you, and the time you put into… Continue Reading GLA Midwinter Planning Meeting 2022
There has been a national wave of local challenges leading toward legislative concerns and Georgia is not immuned. In response, GLA and GLMA have issued a Position Statement on the Freedom to Read in School Libraries in Georgia. We ask that GLA members and community members take action now and contact their legislator using the… Continue Reading Position Statement on the Freedom to Read in School Libraries in Georgia