One current member of HSLI and one past member will be presenting at this year’s American Library Association conference, to be held in San Francisco from June 25 to June 30.
Current member Mary Beth Riedner, of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Schaumburg, is one of the organizers for the session “Hearing on Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dementia”. Attendees will have the opportunity to make suggestions for how to improve library services for people with dementia, a group that is too often overlooked. The session will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 AM on Saturday, June 27, in Room 133 (N) of the Moscone Convention Center. More information is available here.
Immediate-past member Lian Ruan, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Illinois Fire Service Institute, will be giving a poster session titled “The Role of Chinese Americans in Library and Information Science Diversity”. The poster will discuss a project, funded by the 2014 ALA Diversity Research Grant, studying the ways in which Chinese-American librarians have contributed to services for diverse populations, and it will also examine strategies for improving recruitment and promotion of Chinese-American LIS professionals. The poster will be on display from 2:30 to 4:00 PM on Sunday, July 28, at the Westin St. Francis hotel’s Tower Salon A. For more information, click here.
Congratulations, Mary Beth and Lian! If there are any other current or recent HSLI members who are presenting at ALA this year, please let me know.