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Tla District 10 Conference
1.
2. TLA EB Report
Strategic Plan
Demonstrate the value of libraries and librarians—Key
action steps:
1. Identifying stakeholder groups and cultivating
champions
Toolkit
Reporting system
2. Organizing and equipping librarians and library
supporters to advocate for libraries
3. Organizing the existing toolkits to promote libraries with
components about the value of libraries and librarians
4. Compiling data that libraries and librarians can use to
demonstrate value [Texas survey]
5. Highlighting best practices using social media
3. Conference
Fort Worth – April 24-27, 2013
Promoting Our Values, Proving Our Worth
• Schedule will be posted soon to www.txla.org/annual-conference
• Opening General Session – J.R. Martínez – Full of Heart: My Story of
Survival, Strength and Spirit
• Friday, April 26 – Dan Ariely, Duke University – The Honest Truth
About Dishonesty
• Saturday, April 27 – Neil Richard Gaiman
• Other speakers – Joyce Valenza, David Lankes, Buffy Hamilton, Jamie
Larue, Mike Eisenberg, Gary Strong, José Aponte
• Authors - Sharon Creech, Tony Díaz, Lois Lowery, Carmen Tafolla, Jack
Gantos, John Corey Whaley and many more
4. Election News
• President-Elect
• Sharon Amastae
• Cindy Buchanan
• Representative-at-Large on the TLA Executive Board
• Jennifer LaBoon
• Marty Rossi
Submit TLA membership by February 1 to vote
5. In addition….
Visit the TLA website at www.txla.org for information on
events, services and news
Check out
• TLA CE page at www.txla.org/CE for webinars and workshops
• Advocacy toolkits, talking points and more at
www.txla.org/advocate
• Flyers available at www.txla.org/district-meetings —scholarship
information, awards, MyTLA social media, and TALL Texans
Leadership Institute
Texas Bluebonnet Award Program Committee-deadline to
apply for membership is November 15, 2012
6. Contact
María Elena Ovalle
TLA Executive Board, Representative-at-Large
Coordinator, Library Services
Region One Education Service Center
1900 West Schunior, Edinburg, TX 78541
(956) 984-6055 (W); (956) 821-2363 (Mobile)
movalle@esc1.net; meovalle@yahoo.com