The new WAAL Directory should be printed and distributed next month. This Institute provides academic librarians with a concentrated course in information literacy theory, pedagogy, and management. Up to 90 librarians will be able to attend. The Institute will be held at Edgewood College in Madison, June 3-8, 2001. In January, the committee sent a letter, application form and a fact sheet about the conference to all Wisconsin academic librarians.
More information is available on the Web site.
Legislative Liaison Evelyn Payson Evelyn encouraged everybody to attend Library Legislation Day in Madison on February 13, 2001. This was an increase of 23 members from the year before. Last year, the committee contacted all people who hadn t renewed and urged them to join. Most people left because they had retired, left the state, or were no longer employed as librarians. Some people mentioned that it was too expensive.