[CALIBK12] CALTAC Workshops

[Richard Moore]

    The California Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners is an organization dedicated to developing more effective library service. Its members are the elected or volunteer members of local library boards. About 800 strong, we gather at workshops and at the CLA conference to discuss public libraries and their role in a vibrant community. We lobby locally, in Sacramento, and in Washington to help create conditions where access to information and leisure reading can contribute to a healthy society. With the growth of technology, we are now on the front lines of bringing a variety of web-based activities to the public.

    CALTAC offers the opportunity for us to become more knowledgeable advocates for local libraries, literacy, and the California library system by educating ourselves, sharing success and expertise, and staying up-to-date concerning legislation of interest to libraries through our informative quarterly newsletter, CALTACTICS.

    CALTAC puts on two workshops each year aimed at public library trustees but of interest to librarians, friends, patrons and foundations: anyone interested in libraries. This year's workshops deal with the Future of Libraries.

    The Workshops for this year will be held in San Francisco on February 28 and Torrance on March 14.

    Joan Frye Williams, a dynamic force in public library advocacy and a consultant in library and information technology for Infopeople, will speak on Libraries in the Future: Trustees and Commi
ssioners Answer Questions -- Before Somebody Else Answers For Us. 

    Stacey Aldrich, our new California Deputy State Librarian will address Thinking in Future Tense. Stacey insists that, "The best way that we can predict the future is to be an active part of its creation."

    Registration information for each workshop is located here: http://www.caltac.org/workshops/

    Trustees have a unique point of view because they are volunteers and community leaders who represent their fellow citizens. They see the library as a public service that will enhance their community and provide learning opportunities for this generation and for generations yet to come.

    Please join us!            Richard K. Moore, CALTAC President



 


 Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
Huntington Beach, CA
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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It’s an enormous force for good. -- Barack Obama
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