ALA+Annual+2014

**ALA Annual 2014 **  **FTF Events and Other Events of Interest to FTF Members **  toc

//Friday, June 27, 7:30 – 9:00pm, Caesar's Palace, Pisa (at the SRRT All Task Forces Meeting) //// – we need **__you__**! //
 * Feminist Task Force Meetings **

** Other Meetings & Events of Interest ** //Programs and meetings at ALA Annual 2014 that may be of particular interest to FTF members and feminist colleagues, in order by day and time. Event links go to the ALA Conference Scheduler //

=** Friday, June 27 **=


 * **Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) All Task Force Meeting** 7:30-9:00pm, Caesar's Palace, Pisa

=** Saturday, June 28 **=

> William Klaber, author of //The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell//, and Rita Williams-Garcia, author of //P.S. Be Eleven and One Crazy Summer//, from the 2014 and 2011 lists respectively. > Jaena Alabi, Reference Librarian, Auburn University Libraries > The topic for this year’s discussion is women’s role in the workplace. The Staff Potluck – building social capital in the workplace through culinary skills! (or perpetuating stereotypes of women’s roles in the workplace?) Information about the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL), Feminist Task Force (SRRT/FTF) and the Women & Gender Studies Section of ACRL (ACRL/WGSS) will also be presented. > Susan J. Harmon, Director of Safe Place National Operations and Jenny Betz, Education Manager, GLSEN > The WGSS sponsored research poster sessions immediately follow the membership forum.
 * **Auditorium Speaker Series featuring Jane Fonda** 8:30- 9:30am, Las Vegas Convention Center, N249
 * **SRRT Action Council I Meeting** 8:30am  to 10:00am , Las Vegas Convention Center, N219
 * ** ACRL Women & Gender Studies Section All-Committees Meeting **8:30- 10:00am, Bally's, Las Vegas 3
 * **Amelia Bloomer Project and Rainbow Project Author Panel** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:00am, Caesar's Palace, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Neopolitan IV
 * **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00549f; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">GLBTRT Executive Board Meeting **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11:30am, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N229
 * **“Race is a social construct and does not exist”: What Academic Librarians Have to Say about Racism in the Profession** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Exhibit Hall - Poster Session - Poster 7
 * ** Introduction to Women’s Issues: The Staff Potluck **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">1:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">2:30pm, Las Vegas Hotel, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Ballroom E
 * ** Creating a Safe Library Space for All Youth **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">3:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">5:30pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N256
 * ** [|Committee on the Status of Women In Librarianship] **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">4:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">5:30pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N211
 * **ACRL Women & Gender Studies Section General Membership Forum** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">5:30pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N115
 * ** CANCELLED WGSS Social** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">6:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:00pm
 * **SRRT Membership Meeting/Dinner** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">7:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">9:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bahama Breeze Island Grill, 375 Hughes Center DR, Las Vegas, 702-731-3252

=** Sunday, June 29 **=

> Engle's protagonist in <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">//Lightning Dreamer// is described as a **"**book-loving feminist and abolitionist." > Mills discusses her book //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Transgender Lives: Complex Stories, Complex Voices // > ** Women Studies and Human Books: A Valuable Information Literacy Experiment **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:30am- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Exhibit Hall - Poster Session - Poster 13 > Nancy Goebel<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, Head Librarian and Yvonne Becker<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, Associate Professor, both at University of Alberta, Augustana > <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Exhibit Hall - Poster Session - Poster 6 > Hannah Norton<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, Reference and Liaison Librarian; Mary Edwards<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, Distance Learning and Liaison Librarian; Michele R Tennant <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">, Assistant Director of the HSC Library and Bioinformatics Librarian for the Genetics Institute; Nancy Schaefer <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">, Reference and Instruction Librarian; Rolando Garcia-Milian <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">, Biomedical Sciences Librarian, all at the University of Florida Health Science Center Library > ** Progressive Librarians Guild **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">4:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">5:30pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N211 > Come mix with the membership of the round table. $5 recommended donation accepted at the door. > Shannon Sun-Higginson, the producer and director, will be speaking about her soon to be out movie, "GTFO," showing select scenes and answering questions. The documentary is about the experiences of women in the world of video games. =** Monday, June 30 **=
 * ** LLAMA Women Administrators Discussion Group **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:00am <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N217
 * **Meet the Authors: Margarita Engle** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">9:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:30am, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Las Vegas Convention Center, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Exhibit Hall, Booth 403 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 * **Meet the Authors: Kirstin Cronn Mills** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11:00am, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Las Vegas Convention Center, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Exhibit Hall, Booth 623 (Lerner Publishing Group)
 * **GLBTRT Membership Meeting (GLBTRT)** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:15- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11:15am, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N218
 * **Transforming Biomedical Research and Practice: Promoting Research and Awareness of Sex and Gender Differences in Health**
 * **ACRL WGSS Executive Committee Meeting (ACRL WGSS)** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2:30pm, Bally's Las Vegas 3
 * **SRRT Action Council Meeting II** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N211
 * ** GLBTRT Social **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">6:00- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:00pm, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Center, 401 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas
 * **Feminists' Night at the Movies** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8:00-1 <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">0:00pm, Caesar's Palace, Trevi

> Co-sponsored by the ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section > Posters include Empowering Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Librarians Leading the Way by <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Laura Palumbo, Rutgers University Chemistry & Physics Librarian and An Effective Library Approach for Increasing Diversity in the STEM Community by <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Ingrid Ruffin, Thura Mack and Nicole Barajas at the University of Tennessee. > <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Join the GLBT Round Table as it recognizes the winners and honorees of the 2014 Stonewall Book Awards, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">honoring the best in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender writing. >
 * ** Digital Humanities and Academic Libraries: Practice and Theory, Power and Privilege **<span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">8:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">10:00am, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Las Vegas Convention Center, N252
 * **ACRL Science & Technology Section Poster Session (ACRL STS)** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:30- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11:30am, Las Vegas Hotel, Pavilion 06
 * **Stonewall Book Awards Brunch** <span class="date-display-start" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10:30am <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- <span class="date-display-end" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2:00pm, Paris, Champagne 1