One thing ALA has done at recent conferences is have thought-provoking movies. This year is no different. Monday morning the 27th there will be a screening of Unconstitutional, a full-length documentary about the USA PATRIOT Act followed by a panel discussion with people on differing sides of the USAPA debate.
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Clark Atlanta library school closes, follow-up meeting planned at ALA
Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information Studies graduated its last class of students and is now closed. The former library school is having a meeting at ALA Sunday, June 26, 2005, 5:30-7:30pm for people to talk about Clark Atlanta and discuss the school’s legacy. The Black Caucus of ALA has a bit more information. The loss of one of the only library schools at a traditionally black university is another blow against increasing diversity in the library profession. If you’re interested in this issue, you might want to keep an eye on Save Library & Information Studies. They’ve got a good collection of required reading and, it appears, a good designer. [thanks tim]
blogging at ALA
I have a very hard time both attending an event and blogging about it, or even reading blogs about it while I’m there. I appluad the people that try, certainly. Andrea and Luke the Librarian are trying to add some organized useful blogged conference reports to the ALA Wiki. They could always use some more hands to help out.
AL Online news feeds
American Libraries is on the RSS bandwagon and has a feed for their news headlines. It’s excerpts-only at this point, but send them feedback and tell them what else you’d like to see in feeds, Steven has.
save the date, blogger get-together at ALA
The folks from the It’s All Good blog are sponsoring a libraryland blogger get together at ALA, Sunday, June 26, beginning at 5:30 pm, final exact location TBD.