ASSOCIATION OF LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS AT BAPTIST INSTITUTIONS
MINUTES of Business Meeting, June 3, 2010
Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Resource Center
Georgetown College
Georgetown, KY
President Kent Millwood brought the meeting to order and called for reports:
Audit Committee:
Mary Fox and Kathy Hillman reported that the financial records were in good order.
Executive Secretary/Treasurer:
Bill Sumners presented a printed financial report to those [...]
The ALABI 2010 meeting in Georgetown, Kentucky, was graciously hosted by the staff of Georgetown College. The Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Center at Georgetown College is a wonderful facility, and the Mary Margaret Lowe, the Library Director of Georgetown College was a wonderful host.
During the conference, Mary Margaret treated attendees to a presentation entitled [...]
Attendees to the ALABI 2010 meeting had the unique privilege of hearing Eric Ames, Kathy Hilman, and Dr. Doug Weaver, all of Baylor University, make a presentation entitled, “Cooperative Digitization: Possibilities, Pitfalls, and Prospects.” The slides from their presentation are offered below.
The registration form and accommodations information for the 2010 ALABI meeting are now available on the meetings page. Please notice that the preconference workshop is
The agenda should be released sometime later this week. The following topics will be addressed at this year’s meeting.
Preconference workshop: Records management
Basic digitization techniques
Using social media for outreach and promotion in [...]
The officers of ALABI (Association of Librarians and Archivists and Baptist Institutions) would like to announce that ALABI will have its annual convention at Georgetown College, in Georgetown, Kentucky on June 2-3, 2010. The main topic will be The Digital Archivist: Records Management Across the Institution. The program is still coming together, but we expect [...]
During ALABI 2009, ALABI President Kent Millwood led the breakout session on User-centered Practices in Libraries. Kent has graciously compiled notes used for the session and provided them for members of ALABI. Kent has some great content here, and he provided an excellent bibliography to help interested ALABI members pursue becoming even more user-centered.
The [...]
The minutes from the 2009 ALABI meeting are now available. They can be found on the meetings page, or you can click here to access them directly.
A hardy thank you to Eldonna Deweese for taking good minutes and distributing them in such a timely fashion!
The 2009 annual ALABI conference was held at the Southern Baptist Convention building in Nashville, June 3-4. Sixteen attended the pre-conference workshop – “Exhibits on a Wing and Prayer: Effective Displays on Limited Budgets” – presented by Taffey Hall and Allan Lefever. There were 26 conference attendees.
In addition to the wonderful pre-conference, there were several [...]
I want to thank everyone who participated in this year’s ALABI meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the course of the next few days, I will try to post some of the exceptional presentations that our speakers brought this year.
One of the presentations that we heard this year was from Paul Roberts, the Director of Patron [...]
One thing always looms larger than anything else in the minds of Certified Archivists: recertification points. Yes, recertification points. Those little slips of paper that help one avoid ever having to sit through the CA exam again .
This year, ALABI can assist you in your quest for those recertification points. A pre-conference workshop is [...]