AALL Centennial Celebration Toolkit:
Library School Events: Get Involved
Get involved with the library school near you, become active in future librarians careers. Locate the nearest library school to your law library. Go to: http://www.ala.org/ to locate the list of ALA accredited programs; find the one(s) closest to you. Then call the Dean of the school and ask to be involved.
Several ideas for being included in your local master program are:
- Volunteer your library for internship.
- Offer to give day seminars, "A day in the life" of a law tech services librarian, a law reference librarian and so forth.
- Offer to give tours of your library.
- Offer to come to career day, if one at the school, and talk about law librarianship, bring librarians from different departments.
- Offer to become a mentor to library student.
- Visit the library school during Banned books and give a talk on the first amendment and its history.
- Join with library schools on awareness programs about the Patriot Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other legislation that affects libraries, and their patrons.
- Participate in the library school's national library week.
- Sponsor a book drive with the library school.
These are just a few suggestions. Put your thinking caps on, be creative, and find a way to become involved in library school students' studies and lives.