The Spectrum Scholars Midwinter Social will take place on
Saturday, January 24, 2008 at 7pm.
Location: Bayou Bob’s Restaurant and Bar

If you plan on attending, RSVP to Sandy Littletree, slittletree [at] gmail.com.

The Spectrum Scholars Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter 2009 will take place on

Sunday, January 25, 2009
10:30am - 12:00pm
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver, Marble Room

Michael Gutierrez has kindly agreed to take the lead on planning the Spectrum Scholars 2009 ALA Annual Program, but before the planning can commence, a brilliant conference program idea is needed.

If we all add at least one program idea using the comments option below, then we’ll have a variety of great options to choose from.  Take a look at the Program Handouts from previous years if you need examples of conference program topics.

The SSIG Annual 2008 meeting minutes are now posted on the Docs page. Take a look!

The Spectrum Dutch Dinner at ALA Annual in Anaheim will take place on

Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 5:30 pm
at the The Cheesecake Factory
321 W. Katella Ave. #100
Anaheim, CA 92802
*located at the Anaheim GardenWalk plaza on the corner of Katella and Clementine, just a few blocks from the Convention Center

Please send an RSVP to Sally Ma at sallyma16 [at] gmail.com by Friday, June 20 if planning on attending.

Congratulations to the Spectrum Scholars’ Interest Group Chair, Alanna Aiko Moore, for being named this week’s ACRL Member of the Week! Check out the complete profile and feel free to leave a congratulatory comment either here or on ACRL Insider’s site.

See you in Anaheim!!
Cheers.

Sally Ma has confirmed details for the Washington DC Area Meet & Greet:

Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 6:00pm
Las Canteras Peruvian Restaurant and Bar
2307 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Nearest Metro Station: Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan or Dupont Circle

If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Sally at sallyma16 {at} gmail {dot} com.

Meet & Greets allow Spectrum Scholars local to a given area to get to know one another and get together to eat or attend a regional event.

Here are the details on this year’s SSIG ALA Conference Program. Please advertise widely! On the Docs page there are three program flyers (all PDFs). Please use whichever one you feel is most appropriate for the intended audience.

Program Advertisement:

The ALA Office for Diversity, Spectrum Scholars Interest Group and the University of Washington iSchool would like to invite the next generation of library leaders to the following conference program at ALA Annual in Anaheim:

Leaders Wanted: Is an LIS Doctoral Program Right for You?
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Panel Discussion: 10:30am - Noon
*Followed by Lunch (Free; Registration recommended but not required.)
Options Fair: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Hyatt Regency Orange County
Panel will be in Grand B, Lunch & Fair in Grand E/F

Cultivating a diverse workforce is of great importance, but representation of librarians of color in LIS education, research, and executive level administration is paramount. Proven and emerging leaders in LIS education and practice will discuss the need for more doctoral students, the PhD process and its benefits.

A panel discussion is followed by an options fair that gives attendees the chance to discuss opportunities and funding with students and faculty from LIS PhD programs across the country! Lunch is provided for Options Fair registrants.

Panelists include:

• Dr. Clara M. Chu, Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Information Studies
• Elisabeth Rodriguez, President Graduate Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
• Cynthia del Rosario, Director for Graduate Minority Recruitment and Retention, University of Washington’s Information School
• Deborah Turner, President Graduate Fellow, University of Washington
• Dr. Herman Totten, Dean, University of North Texas SLIS
• Dr. Ken Yamashita, Deputy Director, Stockton-San Joaquin CPL

Moderated by Dr. Cheryl Metoyer, Associate Professor, University of Washington.

The Spectrum Scholar Interest Group business meeting at ALA Anaheim is scheduled for:
Sunday, June 29, 2008
8-10am
Hyatt Regency Orange County, Madrid Room

The meeting agenda will be posted on the documents page. Please leave a comment stating whether or not you’ll be able to attend.

Megan has updated this committee work space to migrate certain items from SSIG’s presence on the Spectrum Wiki and to enhance site functioning. He has requested that SSIG members review the following changes and provide feedback.

• If you look in the ‘About‘ section, added a little paragraph about the site above information about the Group. How does this read? Comments are encouraged.
• You will see a link to a ‘Members‘ page in the paragraph about ‘The Group’. This is our roster. On it are the names, titles, employers, and Scholar class of each member of SSIG. This info has previously been stored on the Wiki. if you didn’t put anything on the wiki, your information is needed for the roster now. Please review your entry. If anything is incorrect, let Megan know.
• How do you feel about including a picture on the Member Roster page?
• Additionally, if you cruise the main page of the SSIG site, you will see all of the posts. Under each post you will see an “Add This” button which allows you to share and bookmark entries. I was hoping to put a single one of these in the sidebar but I didn’t like the way it looked. I also don’t like how this looks though. What do the Group members think? Leave it? Kill it? Find something else? Facebook button for the Spectrum Scholars Group?

You can provide feedback via comments on this post, or by contacting Megan through the ssig list or at megan{dot}perez{at}gmail{dot}com.