Welcome to Connect @ PLA, a virtual community for PLA personal members to share knowledge and seek assistance from colleagues on any topic related to public library service. Post ideas, questions, links to interesting information—anything you wish to share or engage over.
Libraries across the country have been reimagining their community role and leveraging their resources and public trust to strengthen community-based learning and foster critical thinking, problem solving, and engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Just as 21st Century...
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a collection of books, films, and other resources chosen with a view to familiarizing the American public with Islam and the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations around the world. It is intended to address both the need and the...
Draft Mission Statement To foster science programming on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects in Public libraries. To increase awareness among public librarians of opportunities in science programming. To discuss how public libraries can affect science literacy.
The Open Group for Library History Reform is a new OPEN ALA Connect community for discussion of concerns and suggestions for improving advocacy within ALA and our communities for addressing Library History Reform in terms of gender and diversity issues. ALA conference committees and round...
This ALA Connect Space is designed to continue the conversation started on the ALCTS E-forum, Serials, Staffing and Workflow, held in the June 2011. Use this as a place to continue the conversation and share your documentation of workflows related to e-resources and serials.
To identify and promote useful qualitative and quantitative assessment measures that provide management information for the assessment of library collections both in the local setting and on the national and international level.. To promote better utilization of existing assessment measures...
To address issues related to collection management of electronic resources, their funding, negotiation and license agreements, and selection policies; to consider the adjustments an electronic environment requires of collection developers; to act as section liaison with other groups dealing with...