The International Relations Round Table would like to invite interested librarians and archivists to participate in their 2006 ALA Pre-Conference.

 

Thinking Outside the Borders – 2006 International Relations Round Table Pre-Conference

 

This International Relations Round Table (IRRT) pre-conference welcomes international librarians as well as librarians from the United States. Using modules provided by the Mortensen Center for International Library Programs, it seeks to establish working relationships among librarians of different countries.

 

This session will explore strategies used in South Africa and in the U.S. for making our libraries, services, and workplaces more effective in a multicultural and global environment. The speakers will be Ujala Satgoor, Head of the Business Library at the University of Pretoria, and Sandra Rios Balderrama, Consultant; Former President, REFORMA & Former Director, ALA Office for Diversity

 

Hector Marino, chair of the Sister Libraries Committee of the IRRT, will provide an overview of the Sister Libraries program. Heleni Pedersoli, from the University Libraries, University of Maryland, will present an inside look at the Sister Libraries program highlighting the nuts and bolts of getting involved and keeping a Sister Library relationship.

 

The 2006 IRRT Pre-Conference will be held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, June 23^rd.  The $40 registration includes lunch and light refreshments.  For more information, please visit: http://www.ala.org/ala/iro/iroactivities/preconference.htm

 

Thank you,