Summer Edition of The Mountain Ledger is out!

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 11:00am—noon Mountain Standard Time

Meeting room will open at 9:00am MST for early set up and practice.

We will use Elluminate, a program for virtual meetings that features different ways to participate: audio, webcam, or chat. Marly Helm will send out instructions for participating in our virtual meeting.

Chapter Listserv

The chapter listserv's home has moved! It will now be hosted by the Univerity of Wyoming, and maintained by Jennifer Mayer. For details about subscribing and posting messages to the list, visit the Listserv page.

Thanks to Lisa Blankenship for maintaining the listserv all these years.

Winberta Yao Travel Award

Congratulations to Elizabeth ("Liz") Ehrnst, who has been selected to receive the 2009 Winberta Yao Travel Award!

Liz has been a member of ARLIS/NA since 2006 and is a brand new member of ARLIS/MW. Liz began her position as the Archives and Digital Collections Librarian at the
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center (in Santa Fe, NM) in August 2008.

Liz completed her Masters of Library Science degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2007. She will use her award to attend the ARLIS/NA annual meeting in Indianapolis.

The Winberta Yao Award can be used for the ARLIS/NA annual national conference or for the annual chapter conference. Application instructions and additional details can be found in the Winberta Yao Travel Award page.

*View Liz's Full Conference Report Here*

The members of the Travel Award Committee are Nina Stephenson (Chair) and Nancy Pistorius. Refer inquiries and applications to:

Nina Stephenson, Chair
Winberta Yao Travel Award Committee
Fine Arts and Design Library MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Email: nstephen@unm.edu