MLA has designed a very special continuing education event for Missouri library staff.

Presentation Academy is a unique, hybrid training experience designed to boost your presenation skills, especially focused on encouraging and support library staff to provide successful workshop and conference presentations. The entire academy will include multiple events: a four-hour in-person workshop offered at several locations, followed by a series of one-hour webinars offered this summer, and concluding with a preconference at the 2016 annual MLA conference. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to attend all three facets of the Academy.

Registration is open for the four-hour Presentation Academy workshops taking place in May in seven locations (Daniel Boone Regional Library – Columbia – May 12, 9am – 1pm) around the state (content is identical at all sites, so register for the location and date best for you).  The cost of the sessions is just $15 for MLA members or $40 for non-members. 

At the May workshop, participants will: 

·         Develop ideas for conference proposals

·         Explore different presentation formats and choose the best one for your ideas

·         Engage in small-group discussion on presentation strategies

Learn more about the Presentation Academy, on the MLA web page: http://molib.org/presentation-academy-registration-opens-friday-april-1st/, or register directly at www.2016mlaworkshops.ezregister.com.

Please save time on April 14 to attend the ACRL Scholarly Communications Roadshow, to be hosted at the Memorial Union by MOBIUS, the MU Libraries, UMKC, and Washington University. Sessions will run from around 9:30 to 4:30. Registration is free. Proposed agenda and registration information coming shortly!

Appropriate for all liaisons and others working in scholarly communication, the goal of the program is to empower participants to help accelerate the transformation of the scholarly communication system. Participants will engage in a structured interactive program focused on:

1. Access
2. Emerging opportunities
3. Intellectual property
4. Engagement

The workshop will help participants in very practical ways, such as: prepare for library staff or faculty outreach (i.e., working with faculty on publication agreements, interacting in their roles as liaisons, and developing programming for faculty and/or graduate students), contextualize collection development decisions to internal and external stakeholders, and initiate or support new models for scholarly communication in their libraries.

Our presenters will be:

• Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Associate Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University
   
• Anali Maughan Perry, Associate Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, Arizona State University Libraries
   

http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/scholcomm/roadshow

For more information, contact Anne Barker.