The APALA Program Planning Committee is pleased to present two upcoming webinars in June. Be sure to check it out if you can, or view the recordings later. Come ready with questions!
Effective Mentoring: Preliminary Lessons Learned
Thurs., June 7, 2018
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12pm EST
Regina Gong will share her expertise leading the development and assessment of the newly-launched mentoring program for the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Attend this webinar to learn about assessment of mentoring programs, including what to assess, and how to determine if the program’s goals were met. This webinar will be useful for mentoring program coordinators, as well as individual mentors and mentees.
Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/9bXhwXr43c6Vr3Ar2
Building Lasting Connections: Beyond the Business Card
Thurs. June 14, 2018
11:30am PST / 12:30 MST / 1:30pm CST / 2:30pm EST
Dale McNeill, Assistant Director for Public Service at the San Antonio Public Library discusses the key ingredients and importance of building lasting professional relationships when there’s not necessarily a clear benefit or obvious opportunity in mind. Paolo Gujilde, APALA VP/President-Elect, will assist in facilitating this webinar that will be valuable to new and veteran conference attendees alike.
Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/2AWZuvjBN8A2opJU2
Speakers:
Regina Gong is the OER Project Manager at Lansing Community College (LCC) in Michigan. She has been leading and managing LCC’s OER initiative since 2015. Regina is well-known in the open education community and has done numerous national presentations and webinars on OER. She is a staunch advocate of openness, equity, and access through her involvement as Executive Council member of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) where she serves as VP for professional development. She is also in the MI Statewide OER Steering Committee; Program Committee member for the 2018 Open Education Conference, and an OER Research Group Fellow for 2017-2018. Regina obtained her Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at Wayne State University and will be starting her Ph.D. in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) Program at Michigan State University (MSU) in Fall 2018.
Check out the LCC OER LibGuide at http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer, and you can follow her on Twitter @drgong.
Dale McNeill is the Assistant Director for Public Services at the San Antonio Public Library, a position he has held since 2012. He provides management oversight for the public portions of the San Antonio Public Library; he is one of the executives in the City of San Antonio in that role. Before working at San Antonio Public Library, Mr. McNeill provided direction for public service as the Director of Public Library Services at the Queens Library in New York City, including 61 branches and the Central Library, including the Archives. He served there for 7 years. For the 10 years before that, he worked for the Dallas Public Library, including 6 years as Public Services Administrator, providing direction for the departments of the Central Library, including local history. He earned the Master’s degree in Library Science from LSU and the BA in education from Phillips University, Enid, OK. Mr. McNeill currently serves on the executive board of the Texas Library Association. His term on ALA Council ends after the 2018 Annual Conference. He is a member of ALA’S Committee on Accreditation and of APALA. He’s been attending National and State Library Conferences since 1986.