Regrets for June 7 & 14/accessibility advocacy

Dear Judy and EOWG Members:

Greetings from Denton, Texas.

My regrets for tomorrow's meeting (technical support for classes/work,
including the Texas Woman's U. Library School's Accessible web design course -
I will be distributing W3C Quick Tips cards...) and the  June 14th meeting.  On
June 14th  I will be at the American  Library Assn. [ALA] Annual Conference in
Atlanta, much, if not most, well, all of the time, advocating for accessibility

- accessibility of the ALA website - which according to ALA's own
Accessibility Policy - http://www.ala.org/ascla/access_policy.html  - SHOULD be
accessible. 

See for instance, the conference website:
http://www.ala.org/events/annual2002/

- networking at ALA's exhibits with vendors about accessibility of their
products such as online catalogs, databases ...

- networking at ALA's 2d annual Accessibility Pavilion 

- presenting a poster at the ALA Diversity Fair on "A for Accessibility:
Ensuring LIS Education for Diversity and Equity of Access"

- presenting as a panelist about recruiting people representing (what I call)
the universal diversity of doing things differently to the library and info.
science profession

- helping to honor our 3rd Century Scholar for 2002, Christine Baynes .. See:
http://www.ala.org/ascla/awards_current.html#century

I will need to order more Quick Tips cards to distribute ....

I am still investigating the accreditation process ...  My trip to ALA should
be helpful in this regard.


Thanks very much for your advocacy,

Ellen Perlow
Chair, ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee
The ALA ASCLA Century Scholarship Diversity Initiative
"Celebrating a New Century that Celebrates Diversity"
http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html
Annual Submission Deadline: March 1st
See Also: ALA HRDR Page: http://www.ala.org/hrdr/scholarship.html
Texas Century Scholarship: http://www.txla.org/html/awards/scholar/century.html 
Have YOU recruited/applied to be a Century Scholarship applicant today?
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Manager of Information Services
School of Library and Information Studies
Texas Woman's University
P.O. Box 425438
Denton, TX 76204-5438
Tel.: 940-898-2622  Fax: 940-898-2611
Web: http://twu.edu/~s_perlow/
E-Mail: eperlow@twu.edu

Received on Thursday, 6 June 2002 23:26:47 UTC