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Loida García-Febo

Joint REFORMA Northeast, AILA, APALA, BCALA, and CALA mini-conference
May 7, 2008

For the 4^th year in a row the Northeast Chapter of REFORMA is teaming up with AILA, APALA, BCALA and CALA to present its widely successful mini-conference. Every year since 2005, the event welcomes librarians, support staff, professors, publishers, distributors and students.  They come from the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, everywhere! Everyone wants to make the Mini-Conference weekend, a New York weekend. There is no registration fee. Lunch is free. There is a maximum capacity of 75 people.

 If you’d like to attend, send an email to sisterama1@yahoo.com.

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Pictures from the 2007 Joint mini-conference:

 

DRAFT AGENDA

2008 Joint REFORMA Northeast, AILA, APALA, BCALA, and CALA mini-conference

Friday, May 16, 2008

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Instituto Cervantes

211 East 49th Street
New York, NY 10017
Tel.: 001 212 308 7720
Fax.: 001 212 308 7721

11:00                     Library Tour

12:00                     Lunch & Networking

Sponsors: Greenwood Publications,  Baker & Taylor

1:00-3:30              Introductions & Welcoming!

                                Key Speaker: Daniel Figueredo

Director of the Library and Media Center at Bloomfield College. He is editor of Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (Greenwood 2006) and co-editor of Encyclopedia of Cuba (Greenwood 2003). He has taught Latin American literature at Montclair State University and Bloomfield College, and regularly contributes to Booklist, Multicultural Review, and other publications.

                                1^st Panel Discussion – Technology for the underserved

§         Hong Yao, Associate Coordinator, Collection Development, Queens Library

§         Technologies @ Hartford by Louise Blalock, Chief Librarian of the Hartford Public Library

§         Technologies used to aid patrons at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, Resource Center- by Mary Ahenakew,

                                2^nd Panel Discussion – Surviving the American Workplace

§         Challenged to Lead, Hong Miao, Public Services Librarian, Marywood University Library

§         STEP, Skills Training & Employment Project at BPL by Kerwin Pilgrim,

§         Expectations of employers and applicants in a multicultural society by Phyllis Hodges, Research Associate, Library and Information Service Credit Suisse Securities

                                Reflections and conclusion of the Mini-Conference
 

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