Dear Colleagues,
With the ALA Annual Conference just around the corner next month, the IRRT Membership and Engagement Committee is diligently preparing for its program, scheduled for Friday, June 27th. This event is specifically designed for international librarians attending the ALA Annual.
International Librarians Orientation
Friday, June 27, 2025**
2:00pm – 3:30pm Pacific**
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 119 A B
During the orientation session, we host a gift drawing for our international visitors. From our past experiences, we have found that our international colleagues particularly appreciate gift items from fellow libraries and librarians, especially those items with the library's name, logo, or other library-related messages. If you have such items to donate, could you please share them with us so that we can give them out to our international guests during the orientation session?
There are three ways to send your donations:
First, you can mail your gift items to ALA HQs if the mail arrives by Monday, May 26.
Mail to:
c/o International Relations Office
Attn. Delin Guerra
ALA American Library Association
225 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1300
Chicago, IL 60601
Second, you can bring them directly to the event location (Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 119 A B) before the event. The program starts at 2:00 pm, so if you can bring them between 10:00-1:30 pm, it will give us some time to prepare.
Third, you can also drop the items at the ALA Office in the Convention Center, table 8, starting on Thursday morning, June 26, and continuing through Friday, June 27, at 12:00 pm.
It would be very helpful to plan and organize the event, if you let us know ahead what you will donate, using either the International Librarians Orientation - Google Form,
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1IzVzF4gkIY1_BIs2fKtbuXFAcs7X8pEALdM5naiPo8g/edit
or send an email to Peter Bae at p.bae@bowdoin.edu .
Thank you in advance for donating items and for your continuous support of IRRT!
Sincerely,
Karen A. Bental
Tatiana Usova
Chairs, IRRT Membership and Engagement Committee Committee
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Delin Guerra
Program Manager
American Library Association
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