Assingment #1- News Report

Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #1: News Report
“JCLC Steering Committee Pushing Ahead to 2012” By Marcellus Turner. August 5th, 2008. <http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/august2008/JCLC2012.cfm>

Recently during the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meetings in Philadelphia several of the committee’s had responsibilities defined, and each individual committee nominated a major conference committee. Since there was such a commitment and every committee and some organizations seemed to really be involved and concerned Presidents of the five Caucuses proceeded to sign the JCLC Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In addition to graciously signing the MOU that the committee’s and organizations had been working so hard to get signed they also contributed their promised financial deposits for money to help planning seed money for future conferences. A Memorandum of Understand or MOU is basically when a document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two different groups or parties. In this case it was different committees.
The committee that is promoting the JCLC2012 (what the meeting was held about) has ever so graciously but together two members to represent them from two of the ALA-affiliated associations of the librarians of color. The First Joint Conference of the Librarians of Color was in October of 2006 and was held in Dallas, Texas. At their first conference of Librarians of Color they felt that it was only appropriate to have the theme of this meeting be “Gathering at the Waters: Embracing the Spirits, Telling our Stories.” This conference offered more than 100 programs and poster sessions for all of the Librarians who were lucky enough to attend this conference. Some of the topics that they touched upon were minority recruitment, early and adult literacy, collection development, and delivery of service to communities of color were just some of the many topics that were touched upon.