As a future MLIS professional I am focused on the importance of service to others, promoting life-long learning and fostering community trust by encouraging social responsibility through Librarianship.
PTPL – A professional networking tool used by its members to network among professional peers who work in library technical services. This is a platform to share information among its members, have annual meetings, and offer opportunities for educational scholarships. It provides collaborative options among professionals with mutual interests who seek access to platforms, blogs, reviews, and trending hot topics within the library. I first attended a PTPL conference in 2015 as a guest, when I wasn’t a member and learned about the many opportunities available for networking and educational help. This is a great resource for technical service staff and librarians.
ALA Connect- This is a division of the American Library Association which provides valuable resources to its members allowing them to register for classes and events, and participate in the divisions, sections, and interest groups of ALA. I will connect with my peers and use its resources accordingly to accomplish daily tasks in the library and stay abreast of new technologies and trending changes.
This association was founded in 1905. The Virginia Library Association supports its members through outreach in newsletters, and scholarly journals. It also supports library education and offers training. Its mission is to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to information in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I will use the resource to obtain continuing education credits and inform myself and others by attending information sessions and using the articles within the scholarly journals and newsletters.
“ACRL is the leading resource for the academic and research library community. Our members have access to a wide array of benefits that increase their knowledge and expertise while building a network of peers necessary to support a successful career in the field.”(ala.org/acrl) This resource will help build upon the foundation of librarianships skills and provide access to one’s peers for community support and outreach opportunities that promote growth within the field.
RUSA is a division within ALA that serves all types of libraries. It is helpful to schools, academic, archives and museums. This resource holds a network that is there to help facilitate the growth of the Librarians knowledge, provide resources to enrich user services, enhance reference/research services, and put spotlight on genealogy and archives. This resource can also help catalogers and procurement teams with collection development. This division within ALA enriches all library collections providing access to much needed information useful to businesses, academics, schools and archives. RUSA (2022) Logo ala.org/rusa/sections“United for Libraries is a national network of enthusiastic library supporters who believe in the importance of libraries as the social and intellectual centers of communities and campuses.”(ala.org) Because I believe strongly in the cause I am a supporter. This resource plays an important role in the community to help foster the core values of librarianship. Without the community’s support and donations libraries will not survive. This gives me the opportunity to learn and grow and engage with like-minded individuals supporting a great cause.
Goodreads was established in January 2007. I have been a member since for years now. I receive emails from the resource to alert me to new and popular reads. This resource allows me to read other readers reviews and provides information on the author and its publisher. This resource also provides the latest news pertaining to upcoming books, subject matter, items that have been banned and offers access to blogs where others can leave reviews and comment. The mission of goodreads is to provide readers with book recommendations and allow them to share books they love with its members.
Penguin School & Library Teacher and Librarian Resources provides resources abut books for all ages. I found this site when looking for banned books. I use it to find books that will help stack my collection with young adult reading materials for the college English developmental courses. I find materials to recommend to the acquisitions team. for students These books will be used as supplemental reading materials for those students who need remedial instruction and speak English as a second language.
(LRTS) is a journal of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). It was created in 1957 until 2020. In 2020 the name was changed, and it is now known as Core. Core provides information regarding cataloging, acquisitions, digitization and collections management. You can also find peer-reviewed research papers, book reviews, letters to the editor and information that is helpful to libraries regarding operations. I will use this resource to better function within the library as a cataloger and use it when issues arise with technical processes.
“In the 140 years since it was created, Library Journal has been inspired by the belief that libraries transform lives, at every stage of life.”(libraryjournal.com) This resource provides a global network between its members in the United States and is part of the original building blocks of Libraries nationwide. It identifies trending topics in libraries and provides best practices that are used by libraries globally. I use this journal to stay informed of current topics in the library, how library spaces are being transformed and to find the latest technology being used in libraries.
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