All Sessions

Enjoy light refreshments and the company of members of the AASL Independent Schools Section (ISS). Advance tickets are required. Exact location will be noted on your event ticket.

The NMRT Mentoring Social gives participants in both the NMRT Conference Mentoring Program and NMRT Career Mentoring Program a chance to meet in person. For Conference Mentoring participants, this is a further chance to exchange conference survival tips and make a definite professional connection at Annual. For Career Mentoring participants, the social provides an opportunity to cement the mentoring relationships developed during the previous nine months of careet mentoring. All participants in NMRT's Mentoring programs are encouraged to attend even if their mentoring partner cannot attend the social.

Find out what's going in ALCTS and meet ALCTS members and leaders

EBSCO-sponsored awards to recognize contributions of community college librarians. Pre-registration is required for dinner. Social hour begins @ 6:00. Tickets and registration to be handled through ACRL.

This year ALAPlay combines gaming, comics, costumes, and your favorite Time Lords (and ladies)! We invite attendees to dress up in the style of the Doctors, Companions, aliens, and artifacts of Doctor Who OR with the gleaming gears, goggles, corsets and hats of the steampunk aesthetic. Feel free to combine the two (as fans know, Doctor Who has built in quite a bit of steampunk flair to its (?) universe over the years.) We welcome all kinds of costumes, from the simple to the more elaborate: we'd love to see fans takes on a Tardis dress or perhaps a Dalek hat. There are some excellent gender swapping opportunities out there as well -- why not a Time Lady instead of a Time Lord?

The point is to have fun! Games and activities will be provided by the Games and Gaming Round Table (GameRT) while the costumed fun will be led by the Graphic Novel Member Initiative Group.

Did we mention there will be prizes? Because there will. All attendees can enter our raffle at the door for exciting prize packs from a variety of publishers.

Oh, and this year we're kicking off a conference ribbon game called These Aren't the Droids You're Looking for (http://ala12.scheduler.ala.org/node/4292). To play, you'll need to come to ALAplay to get your game packet and ribbon.

COWBOY UP!

WHERE: THE RANCH - Restaurant & Saloon
http://www.theranch.com/

ADDRESS:1025 East Ball Road Anaheim, CA 92805

TIME: 10PM TILL THE SUN COMES UP

HOSTED BY YOUR PARTY PEOPLE:
JP OF @8BITLIBRARY & @PCSWEENEY and the ALA Think Tank

TWEET IT:
http://on.fb.me/J74cHZ

PARTY:
HARD!

THIS EVENT IS NOT SPONSORED BY ALA. WE DIG ALA, BUT WE KEEP IT 8BITSTYLEOFFTHEBOOKS, YO.

Are you looking for ways to become more involved in your profession, and to meet and network with other reference service providers? Visit the Reference Services Section (RSS) Open House to learn more about the work being accomplished in RSS. RSS officers and members will be available to answer your questions and suggest possible committees of interest, and you can visit committee tables where members will be available to talk about current projects. You are welcome to stay from 9am-10:00am to sit at a committee table while they conduct their meeting. Refreshments are sponsored by EBSCO.
RSS officers and members will be available to answer your questions and suggest possible committees of interest, and you can visit committee tables where members will be available to talk about current projects. You are welcome to stay from 9am-10:00am to sit at a committee table while they conduct their meeting.

Join the bookmobile and library outreach community for lunch with Gerald Chertavian, Founder and CEO of Year Up, a non-profit organization that provides intensive professional education to urban young adults. The author luncheon is an opportunity to socialize and network with outreach colleagues. All ticket sales will end on June 14—tickets will NOT be available from the registration desk. Mr. Chertavian's participation is made possible by Viking Press, Penguin USA.

This gathering is held at a local restaurant allowing colleagues to network over lunch.

Sponsored by the American Psychological Association, posters are presented showcasing research and instructional innovations in the area of education and behavioral librarianship.

Join the RUSA Emerging Technologies in Reference Section (MARS) for our annual Happy Hour! The MARS social event of the year, the Happy Hour is ideal for anyone interested in meeting “Martians” and learning about the work of MARS in a relaxed, festive environment. All are welcome. Eat, drink, and mingle just steps from the Convention Center: the Anabella Hotel,
1030 W. Katella Ave (adjacent to the Convention Center). Complimentary appetizers and cash bar.

Generously sponsored by EBSCO Publishing.

Join us to celebrate ASCLA's annual award recipients, and then participate in organized networking festivities to meet colleagues who share your interests. From ebooks to prison libraries, from collaboration to LSTA, from special populations to independent consulting--we have a topic for you! This event is open to all. Co-sponsored by ASCLA and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA).

Off-site event

Join us for the '6th' Newbie & Veteran Librarian Tweet-up at the ALA 2012 Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA!

New and budding librarians are super welcome as well as many semi-veteran and veteran librarians! Come meet awesome people and learn and discuss all things library/librarian-y over great music and drinks. Then we will walk together to the After Hours Social after the Tweet-up!

>>Meet at Bar Louie inside the Shops at Anaheim GardenWalk (321 W Katella Ave #212)
Directions from the Convention Center:
http://g.co/maps/x45xn

>>RSVP at http://twtvite.com/ala12_twtup appreciated to notify the bar in advance. : )

Rock Bottom Remainders announces that Anaheim will be their last ever concert

The Rock Bottom Remainders band has announced that the concert at ALA Annual Conference, part of their “Past Our Bedtime” tour, will be their last ever. This news was released with the sad news that their founder Kathi Kamen Goldmark (who was to have performed with them at ALA) passed away in late May. It is a special honor for ALA to host this landmark event.
“By day, they’re authors. Really famous authors. But once a year they shed their pen- and-pencil clutching personas and become rock stars, complete with roadies, groupies and a wicked cool tour bus.” The ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash proudly welcomes the Rock Bottom Remainders for this special last-ever performance at 2012 ALA Annual Conference on Saturday, June 23, 8:00pm in the Anaheim Convention Center Arena.
The Rock Bottom Remainders band has included some of today's most shining literary lights. Among them, they've published more than 150 titles, sold more than 150 million books, and been translated into more than 25 languages. Scheduled to appear now at the ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash are Stephen King, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Matt Groening, Scott Turow, Ridley Pearson, Greg Iles, James McBride, Roy Blount, Jr., and Sam Barry. Roger McGuinn of The Byrds joins the band as special musical guest.
Of the upcoming ALA concert, Dave Barry, co-lead guitarist says, “We love the ALA, and we love librarians. We love them so much that, for this performance, we're going to try to actually learn the songs before we play them.”
The group, founded by Goldmark, first appeared at the 1992 American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim. Hailed by critics as having “one of the world’s highest ratios of noise to talent,” the Remainders have no music videos and no record contracts, but do have around 160,000 hits on Google. They have one original song, “Proofreading Woman,” and have generally performed covers of favorite songs—you can find videos on YouTube.
The money raised from this year's Bash will provide scholarships for graduate students in library and information studies, including Spectrum. Tickets are $25 (nonrefundable) and are going fast. You must register for the conference (or log in if you have already registered) in order to purchase tickets.
Find out about the many other ALA Annual Conference & Exhibits highlights—speakers, events, networking opportunities, and more. And for general information about the meeting in Anaheim, CA, June 21-26, 2012, visit us at www.alaannual.org. Register now!

Bring your concerns to the SRRT Membership Meeting. If you are new, learn about what SRRT does and how to get involved. If you have been involved, meet some new people. Relax at the social. Enjoy some appetizers, cash bar, entertainment.

Come out late after the BASH and #partyhard After Hours with the ALA Think Tank crew and LibrarianWardrobe.com. We have the outside patio at Fire & Ice where the grill is open late and the DJ will be spinning through midnight, at least. Librarian Wardrobe wants you to show off your duds to win some best-dressed awards and strut it on the catwalk in a walkoff contest at 11:30p for the 1st annual LW @ ALA Style Jam! We'll be going until they kick us out at 2am.

RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events/182381161884007/

Fire and Ice Grill - Anaheim Garden Walk
321 West Katella Avenue # 315

All member breakfast, section business meeting, welcome of new members and officers, continuing education activities.

This gathering is held at a local restaurant allowing colleagues to network over lunch.