Going to the AALL Annual Meeting in Boston? Use Facebook?

Then be sure to check out the Local Arrangements page on Facebook!

https://www.facebook.com/events/186091468161721/

The site is for people who are comfortable using Facebook to get details about events, connect with other colleagues who will be attending, arrange for a roommate, etc.  Please feel free to add a message to the site or suggest it to your colleagues.   If you have a Facebook account, all you need to do is be logged in, and then click on “join” from the events link above.  Then you are free to post away!  Members of the Local Arrangements Committee will be monitoring posts and answering questions as they arise – and the Facebook site will be connected with the other AALL websites.

It’s not too early to start thinking ahead!

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SNELLA Scholarships

SNELLA is offering a scholarship to the AALL Annual Meeting, which will be in Boston from July 21-24, 2012.  Information on the conference is available from AALL’s Conference site <http://www.aallnet.org/conference>.  If you are interested in applying for a scholarship, please fill complete SNELLA_Scholarship_Form_AALLmeeting by April 15th to allow enough time for the scholarship committee to review.   The amount of the scholarship to workshops will be at the discretion of the Scholarship Committee, in consultation with the Treasurer of the Association. Those amounts awarded may vary, reflecting the registration fee, location, and length of the meeting. No award shall exceed $500.00.  At this time, please direct questions about the scholarship application to Camilla Tubbs.

SNELLA is also offering two scholarships for institutes and/or SNELLA sponsored or co-sponsored programs using a separate form:  SNELLA_Scholarship_Form_nonAALL.  As with the AALL conference, the amounts awarded may vary, reflecting the registration fee, location, and length of the meeting – but no award shall exceed $500.00. Under extenuating circumstances one institute scholarship award may be applied to a second AALL award in any given year.  There are two conferences coming up in Connecticut that may be of interest:

The Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference will be taking place on Monday, May 7 and Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at the Mystic Marriott Hotel and Spa in Groton, CT.  Conference details and registration is available here: http://www.ctlibraryassociation.org/content.php?page=CLA2012

SNELLA is co-sponsoring the Hartford Bar Association’s inPractice Conference, which will take place on May 3, 2012 at the Hartford Hilton Hotel.  Special registration details for SNELLA members are soon to follow – But you can view the conference schedule here: http://inpracticect.com/

If you are interested in applying for a non-AALL Meeting scholarship, please fill complete the attached form by April 15th to allow enough time for the scholarship committee to review.  At this time, please direct questions about the scholarship application to Camilla Tubbs.

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January Newsletter Now Online

Be sure to check out the latest issue of Obiter Dicta, our chapter newsletter.  Thanks, Jeff, for doing such a great job putting it together for us!

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SNELLA Winter Meeting & Dinner

Please R.S.V.P. by January 10th if you plan on attending!

WHEN
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Board Meeting at 6:00 p.m.
Dinner at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE
Amici Italian Grill in Middletown
280 Main Street
Riverview Center
Middletown, CT
Phone: (860)346-0075
(Directions)

DETAILS
Cost will be $30.00 for SNELLA members; $35 for non-SNELLA members and guests. Bring payment with you to Amici. The menu is your choice of chicken milanese, eggplant parmigiana or shrimp scampi as an entrée . Dinner will include two appetizers, a garden salad, and a dessert. Select your entrée at the dinner.

There will also be a cash bar.

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