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 [...]
The annual meeting of the Association of Librarians and Archivists at Baptist Institutions will be held on June 3-4, 2009 at the Southern Baptist Convention Building in downtown Nashville. The staff of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives will host the meeting.
The preliminary agenda for the meeting and the registration form are now [...]
I realize that I did not print out contact sheets for my presentation from the Tuesday afternoon session, so I have included the presentation below. It contained several links, and I wanted to make those available in case some of you would like to examine them. I have also tried to link to definitions for [...]
ALABI 2008 at Mercer University is now in the books. I sincerely enjoyed spending time with everyone who attended. I am always encouraged by the camaraderie and collegiality that exists at our meetings, and this year was no different. Every year I walk away from this meeting thinking, “I love being an archivist. I love [...]