Carol L. Schuetz, Editor
Message from the BRASS Chair
Hello BRASS!
As shown in the committee reports below, everyone is gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference. There’s fresh snow on the mountains here in Utah, so spending ALA in Las Vegas is sounding pretty good to me right now.
Here’s a list of some of the BRASS events to look forward to:
- Preconference: How Business Librarians Support Entrepreneurs
- A status update and draft release by the Working Group of the RUSA/BRASS Guidelines on Financial Literacy Education in Libraries
- Academic Libraries Forum: Business Information Literacy Instruction: Scalability, Assessment, and Philosophy
- Publishers Forum: Hitting the Jackpot: Sources for Local and Regional Business Information
- Our traditional BRASS Discussion Group
- The BRASS Annual Program: Mad Men: The Business of Advertising
- Don’t forget our Friday night members’ reception and Monday night dinner!
Also at Annual we’ll officially recognize this year’s recipients of the BRASS awards and grants at the RUSA Awards Ceremony and Reception:
- Celia Ross, Gale Cengage Learning Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship
- Ilana Barnes and Tao Zhang, BRASS Emerald Research Grant
- Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet, Business Expert Press Award for Academic Business Librarians
- Katharine Macy, Gale Cengage Learning Student Travel Award
Keep an eye out on BRASS-L for the full BRASS program/event guide. I hope to see you all in Las Vegas!
Andy Spackman
BRASS Chair, 2013-2014
andy_spackman@byu.edu