Summer's here, and the time is right to begin planning the 2009 VALE Users' /ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS Conference. This year will be the 10th anniversary of the conference. We want to mark the occasion in festive fashion, and you are invited to be part of that, along with all the other things that have made the conference a successful and rewarding experience for participants. In keeping with past practice, we will be holding a one-time in-person planning meeting, with subsequent general arrangements to be handled by email and telephone.

To the New Jersey library community: NOTE: You may have seen the email sent on Friday, May 2 to VALE libraries regarding NJKI. This email was based upon a meeting that Norma Blake and I had with Judy Cohn, Marianne Gaunt and Anne Ciliberti the prior day.

Posted by Anne Ciliberti at the request of Rob Karen, WALDO:

You and your staff are invited to attend a free WALDO/LibLime webinar featuring the Koha Integrated Library Software. As you heard at the Next Generation Academic Library System Symposium sponsored by IMLS, VALEnj and The College of New Jersey, WALDO is partnering with LibLime for its new ILS and is excited about the progress that has already been made.

The webinars are scheduled for:

Have some great instructional materials that you would like to share with your VALE colleagues? Submit them to the VOILA database. VALE’s Shared Information Literacy (SIL) Committee is seeking contributions to the Virtual Online Information Literacy Archive database.