CLENE HAPPY HOUR AT ALA

CLENE HAPPY HOUR AT ALA
Friday, July 10th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Potter’s Lounge in the Palmer House Hilton Hotel
17 East Monroe Street, Chicago 60603

Calling all CLENE members, and all those interested in staff development and training.

You’re invited to the CLENE Happy hour at ALA for a few hours of networking, conversation, and a whole lot of fun! Our Happy Hour coincides with LITA Happy hour, so you can hang and network with two great groups at once! Hope to see you there. (Cash Bar)

CLENE Programs at ALA Annual 2009

CLENE has a lot of wonderful stuff going on at ALA: Programs, Preconferences, a Discussion Group, and more! We hope to see you at one of our programs and, as always, you’re invited to join us at our Board meetings; to participate, observe or just drop in to say hello.

PRECONFERENCES on Friday July 10

• AM Preconference: Making it Stick: Designing, Delivering, and Surviving Presentations: A polished and memorable presentation requires skills that depend on your ability to work with, influence, and persuade your audience. This interactive hands-on workshop will help you understand and develop rapport with your audience; develop active content in your presentation; help you learn to be comfortable in front of your audience; and understand when and how to use support materials.
  Speakers: Lori Reed, Employee Learning Coordinator for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library; Paul Signorelli, writer/trainer/consultant for libraries and nonprofit organizations (Paul Signorelli & Associates).




• PM Preconference: Punch it up with Pictures: Presentations with visual power: Are your presentations riddled with bullet points? Visual images often speak louder and more succinctly than words. In the tight format of a PowerPoint presentation, strategic use of images can convey more meaning than bullet points and text. The presenter skills you learn in the morning workshop on delivering an unforgettable presentation will shine brighter when your support materials complement rather than compete with you. This workshop will help you to understand how visuals communicate, show you where to find free-use images, and share some best practices for editing and adding images to your presentations.
  Speakers: Tony Tallent, Director of Libraries & Arts for the City of Boulder, Colorado; Michael Porter, Interactive Strategy Manager for WebJunction; Betha Gutsche, Learning Initiatives Developer for WebJunction.

PROGRAMS BY DATE

Friday, July 10

• Making it Stick: Designing, Delivering, and Surviving Presentations, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. Location: MCP W-476
• Punch It Up With Pictures: Presentations with Visual Power, 1:00 pm – 04:30 pm. Location: MCP W-476
• CLENE HAPPY HOUR AT ALA
  Friday, July 10th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  Potter’s Lounge in the Palmer House Hilton Hotel
  17 East Monroe Street, Chicago 60603

  Calling all CLENE members, and all those interested in staff development and training.

  You’re invited to the CLENE Happy hour at ALA for a few hours of networking, conversation, and a whole lot of fun! Our Happy Hour coincides with LITA Happy hour, so you can hang and network with two great groups at once! Hope to see you there. (Cash Bar)

  
  

Saturday, July 11

• Creating a Culture of Learning in Your Library, 1:30-3:00. Location: HRM Conf. Ctr. 10 a/b
• How To Develop a Mentoring Program, 3:30-5:30. Location: MCP W-178b

Sunday, July 12

• Training Showcase: Best Practices for Continuing Library Education, 1:30-3:30. Location: MPS S106

Monday, July 13

• Staff Development Discussion Group, 1:30-3:00, MCP W-470a

BOARD MEETINGS

• CLENE Board Meeting I, Saturday, July 11, 8:00-12:00. Location: MPS S101b
• CLENE Board Meeting II, Monday, July 13, 8:00-10:00. Location: MPS S101b

ALL CLENE EVENTS BY DATE

Friday, July 10

• Making it Stick: Designing, Delivering, and Surviving Presentations, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. Location: MCP W-476
• Punch It Up With Pictures: Presentations with Visual Power, 1:00 pm – 04:30 pm. Location: MCP W-476
  
• CLENE HAPPY HOUR AT ALA
  Friday, July 10th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  Potter’s Lounge in the Palmer House Hilton Hotel
  17 East Monroe Street, Chicago 60603

  Calling all CLENE members, and all those interested in staff development and training.

  You’re invited to the CLENE Happy hour at ALA for a few hours of networking, conversation, and a whole lot of fun! Our Happy Hour coincides with LITA Happy hour, so you can hang and network with two great groups at once! Hope to see you there. (Cash Bar)

  
  
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Saturday, July 11

• CLENE Board Meeting I, 8:00-12:00. Location: MPS S101b
• Creating a Culture of Learning in Your Library, 1:30-3:00. Location: HRM Conf. Ctr. 10 a/b
• How To Develop a Mentoring Program, 3:30-5:30. Location: MCP W-178b

Sunday, July 12

• Training Showcase: Best Practices for Continuing Library Education, 1:30-3:30. Location: MPS S106

Monday, July 13

• CLENE Board Meeting II, 8:00-10:00. Location: MPS S101b
• Staff Development Discussion Group, 1:30-3:00, MCP W-470a

Hotel Abbreviations

• MCP-McCormick Place West
• MPS-McCormick Place South
• HRM-Hyatt Regency McCormick

CLENE Meetings: Join us!

A message from CLENE President Stacy Schrank and CLENE VP, Pat Carterette:

Dear CLENE Round Table Members,

CLENE Board members and some members-at-large have been meeting virtually each month since January (using OPAL web-conferencing software) to discuss ongoing round table business and projects. This has been a wonderful way to communicate with each other.

We would like to encourage all CLENE members to participate in our virtual monthly meetings. This is a great way for members to connect, communicate and collaborate.

Below is our online meeting schedule for the remainder of 2009. CLENE virtual meetings run from 2:00-3:00 EDT.

• Wednesday, June 10
• Thursday, July 16
• Wednesday, August 12
• Thursday, September 17
• Wednesday, October 14
• Thursday, November 19
• Wednesday, December 9

I strongly urge you to attend the June 10th meeting. We will be discussing a proposed name change for the CLENE Round Table and we want your input!

A recent survey sent out to people involved in training, staff/professional development and continuing education suggested that most people, including CLENE members, have no clue what the CLENE acronym stands for.

The proposed name change is from CLENE Round Table to the LEARNING Round Table. Learning is what we do, what we’re passionate about and what we promote. We’re not all trainers, we’re not all educators but we’re ALL learners... and learning is what brings us all together.

ALA’s deadline for requesting a name change is June 12th. Please join the virtual meeting on June 10th and put in your two CEnts worth before it’s too late.

If you can’t attend the next virtual meeting, please send comments or questions about the name change to Stacy Schrank, CLENE President (sschrank [at] metrolibrary.org) or Pat Carterette, CLENE Vice-President (pcarterette [at] georgialibraries.org).


Join the CLENE virtual meeting in OPAL a few minutes prior to each meeting: http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs423c62c43df0

If you’ve never used OPAL before, be sure to run the set-up Wizard. Here is a link to a document on how to use OPAL: http://www.opal-online.org/OPALgettingstarted.htm

Thank you for your continued support!

Stacy and Pat

P.S. The next issue of the CLENExchange is coming soon and includes a listing of all the CLENE events taking place in Chicago. Hope to see you there!

PRESENT AT ALA at the CLENE Training Showcase!

PRESENT AT ALA at the CLENE Training Showcase!
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/clenert/trainingshowcase

Does your library have a staff training or staff development program you’re proud of? Is someone from your library attending ALA this summer?

If so, you’re invited to participate in the CLENE Training Showcase where you can share information about your program AND learn about the best practices of other libraries and organizations. There is NO COST to participate! All you do is stand by your table and talk about your cool program with people who stop by. It’s really fun! Applications are due on April 1.

The CLENE Round Table Training Showcase will be Sunday, July 12 from 1:30-3:30 pm. The planning committee is on the lookout for libraries, library organizations, presenters, speakers and vendors to participate – anyone who has a great training or staff development program they’d like to share. CLENE is all about sharing ideas (and stealing ideas ?)so this Training Showcase is the perfect venue. If you have any questions, please give us a call!

The Showcase normally attracts between 200-300 attendees over a period of 2 hours – all of whom are interested in training and staff development. The number of participants(presenters) varies from 20-30. It’s a really fun event with refreshments and lots of door prizes. Each participant has a 6’ draped table on which to put a portable table-top display unit, handouts or other related materials.

Please see CLENE Round Table Training Showcase website for more information. There’s a link on the main page for the Training Showcase Page with even more info about the Showcase, along with two online application forms – one for those wishing to participate and one for those want to be a sponsor or a donor.

There are a few photos from last year’s Training Showcase in Anaheim in the Dec. 2008 CLENExchange Newsletter.

For more information, contact either Pat Carterette, pcarterette@georgialibraries.org or404-235-7124 OR Melissa Lattanzi at lattanzm@neo-rls.org or 330.847.7744, extension 12

Congrats to Pat Hogan!

Congrats to CLENE Treasurer Pat Hogan! She has been elected by ALA Council to serve a three-year term on the ALA Executive Board, beginning at the end of Annual Conference this summer.

CLENE members have long benefited from Pat's intelligence, wisdom and caring. We're glad to see that ALA Council has recognized her and placed her in a position that will allow all ALA Members to benefit as we have.


(PHOTO: Patricia M. Hogan, Stephen L. Matthews, and Courtney L. Young)

CLENE's Facebook Page

News from Dawn, co-editor CLENExchange

Do you have FaceBook? If yes, you can now become a fan of CLENE. Check out the new page, and add any pictures or other stuff you have: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-IL/CLENERT/121809315231

TechnoratiTags: ALA, CLENE, CLENERT, Training, Staff Development, libraries

December CLENExchange now online

Hello CLENE Round Table Members,

We are pleased to announce that the December issue of CLENExchange is now available online, on both the CLENE wiki http://clene.ala.org/clenewiki/index.php?title=CLENExchange_Newsletter and the ALA CLENE website http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/clenert/newsletter/newsletter.cfm .

Please feel free to distribute the link widely -

Additionally, if you are a CLENE member and have suggestions for articles, we want to hear from you! Contact us at clenexchange.editor[at]gmail.com !

Kimberly Chapman & Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen, Co-Editors

CLENE meetings ALA Midwinter-Denver (with locations)

CLENE meetings at ALA Midwinter-Denver

• Strategic Planning Meeting
  Friday 1/23/2009, 03:30 pm - 05:30 pm
  Convention Center Room 608
  
  
• Board Meeting I
  Saturday, 1/24/2009, 08:00 am - 12:00 pm
  Convention Center Room 107
  
  
• Training Showcase Planning Meeting
  Sunday, 1/25/2009, 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  Convention Center Room 113
  
  
• Board Meeting II
  Monday, 1/26/2009, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  Convention Center Room 204
  
  
• Staff Development Discussion Group
  Monday, 1/26/2009, 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  Convention Center Room 602