ACRL Immersion '10 Program

Friday, December 11 is the application deadline for the ACRL Immersion '10 Program. Complete program details and application materials are online at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/infolit/professactivity/iil/immersion/immersion10.cfm.


The ACRL Immersion ’10 Program provides four-and-a-half days of intensive information literacy training and education for academic librarians. Applications are being accepted for Immersion ’10 Teacher and Program tracks, to be held at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., July 25-30, 2010

E- book readers

Grant to purchase e-book readers to loan out to our students, faculty, and/or staff.
Need your recommendation....
Suggested products to look at include, but are not limited to: Kindles, Nooks, the Sony Digital Readers, and others that we may run across.

Somethings to keep in mind....
Amazon Kindles  -Kindle 2 and Kindle DX
Sony Readers- Reader Pocket Edition and  Reader Touch Edition

ALA 2010 Annual Conference

The American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

June 24-29, 2010

Washington Convention Center

801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Harvard Graduate School of Education APA 6th

An online tutorial developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education School to teach the fundamentals of APA style now reflects 6th edition changes to APA’s Publication Manual

ACRL Proposals for 2011 in Philadelphia

Proposals are now being accepted for the ACRL 2011 National Conference to be held March 30 - April 2, 2011, in Philadelphia. Contributed paper, panel session, preconference, and workshop proposals are due May 10, 2010. Cyber Zed Shed presentation, poster session, roundtable discussion, and Virtual Conference Webcast proposals are due November 1, 2010. Submit proposals via the online form.

APA Replacing incorrect first printings ...

... but the jury is still out on who, when, where, and how this will get accomplished.

Keep your eyes and ears open on your various listservs.

Original story: Chronicle

Errors in our APA 6th book

I checked our copy of the Publication Manual of the APA and we do have the earlier version of the 6th edition with errors .
Look at the sample one-experiment paper (figure 2.1) page 41 . The words “Running head:” in the header is at the top of every page, this is the the wrong version.
This is the correct version:

http://www.apastyle.org/manual/related/sample-experiment-paper-1.pdf

Here is a link to the Reprint Corrections

http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-reprint-corrections-for-2e.pdf

We'll have to go shopping or see if funds are available now.