ALA has issued a sixth draft of its “Librarianship and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Nurturing Understanding and Respect”.  Comments are being accepted.  I came across this working document through the ArchivesNext blog.  It seems that ALA’s Rare Book and Manuscript Section has commented on the document and The Society of American Archivists has been approached for comment as well.  If you have items that fall under the umbrella of traditional cultural expressions take a look at what is going on.

September is Library Card Sign Up month.   ALA has a variety of resources available to help you celebrate with kids and other free resources .

“The Association for Library Service to Children, Public Awareness
Committee (PAC) wants to hear about your success! Share program ideas
and resources by adding content to the Kids! @ your library(r) Campaign
wiki at: http://wikis.ala.org/alsc/index.php/Main_Page . They would  also like to
hear if you have used resources from the Campaign tool kit. Please add
content directly to the wiki or email information to Bethany Lafferty,
PAC Member, at balaff12@yahoo.com .”

Headed to ALA? The following Nylink vendor partners will be exhibiting at the upcoming American Library Association conference in Chicago (exhibits held July 11-14). Booth numbers available at http://exhibitors.ala.org/files/AN09-Current-Exhibitors.pdf (and in parentheses below). For more information about Nylink’s consortial discounts on their products and services, please contact Nylink at services@nylink.org or 800-342-3353.

• ABC-CLIO / Greenwood (#3918)
• Atlas Systems (#4416)
• Bowker (#4411)
• Cambridge University Press (#4634)
• Columbia University Press (#4734)
• Computype (#4445)
• Editorial Oceano (Oceano Digital for Spanish-language databases) (#2227)
• Emerald (#3251)
• Gale Cengage (#3911)
• H.W. Wilson (#2811)
• LexisNexis (#3624)
• McGraw-Hill (#4223)
• OCLC (#3923)
• Oxford University Press (#4419)
• Project Muse (#4415)
• ProQuest (#2826)
• RefWorks (#2826)
• Rosen Publishing (Teen Health & Wellness) (#4515)
• SerialsSolutions (#3026)
• Springer (#4523)
• TDNet (#2031)
• Thomson Reuters (#3616)

A few Nylink staffers will be heading out to Chicago also – Dave Penniman, Executive Director; Donna Dixon, Director of Member Programs and Ann Gunning, Member Services Librarian.

To everyone heading to Chicago – have a great trip!