TO: Derrie Perez
REFORMA Secretary/Recorder
FR: Susana Hinojosa
Chair, RNCII Planning Committee
RE: REFORMA 2ND National Conference
ALA Midwinter Conference Report
The RNCII Planning Committee will be meeting at the ALA Midwinter Annual Conference, San Antonio,
on Saturday, January 15th, 2-4pm for a business meeting. You are invited to attend. Please also check
the RNCII web page at: http://www.reforma.org/rnc2/ for the latest information on the conference.
Below are reports from the various RNCII Planning Committee Chairs. If you have any questions, want to make some recommendations, WANT TO VOLUNTEER, please contact the committee chairs or contact me.
Overview of RNCII Conference Basics:
by Susana Hinojosa, chair, RNCII Planning Committee
(shinojos@library.berkeley.edu)
HOTELS - contracts finalized with most of the hotels :
Clarion Santa Rita Hotel & Suites
Days Inn
Four Points Hotel
Holiday Inn City Center - (waiting final contract w/adjustment
in set-up costs)
CONFERENCE CENTER
In September the decision to move Exhibits to the Conference Center was made. In addition, the use of eight meetings rooms in the Conference Center was recommended. Contract for space in the Lower Exhibit Hall and for the eight meeting rooms was requested. Follow-up is being handled by our local contact , Jana Rae Oliver, Metropolitan Tucson Convention & Visitors Bureau (MTCVB).
REGISTRATION
Bid for handling conference registration has been received from Ernest Martin, ALA Assoc. Executive Director. Bid was in the range of $5000 for an estimated attendance of 500. Discussion will continue at this Midwinter with Mr. Martin. Given the high costs, negotiations have also been started with Bon Voyage Travel (Tucson) to handle airfare plus registration. Hotel reservations contract is under discussion with MTCVB.
REFORMA BROCHURE
Brigida Campos finalized text for the REFORMA brochure this last Fall. RNCII has printed copies and started the use of these in RNCII publicity and outreach. The brochure was first available at FIL and proved to be very popular. RNCII is only printing copies for use in conference planning. Overall printing plans for REFORMA need to be discussed at Ex. Board level.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Ms Sara Martinez Tucker, President and CEO of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund has agreed to be a keynote speaker at the RNCII Opening Session. Ray Suarez, now at NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, formerly at NPR Talk of the Nation has also been invited to speak at the conference.
REGISTRATION FEES
The Planning Committee is currently discussing the following
fee schedule.
| Early Bird | Advanced | On-Site | |
| Member | $55 | $65 | $85 |
| Non-member | $75 | $85 | $105 |
| Student | $25 | $25 | $25 |
| Exhibit Pass | FREE | FREE | FREE |
As much as possible fees are being kept low to encourage participation. It has also been recommended that the $105 On-Site Non-member fee be lowered.
A MIDWINTER RECEPTION has been planned to highlight and draw support for REFORMA and RNCII. This reception, currently in the works, will be held on Saturday, January 15th, 8-10pm, at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel (the conference headquarters hotel). Bill Gordon has graciously lent us his ALA suite for this event.
RNCII PRECONFERENCES
by Rafaela Castro, chair, Preconference Committee
A new preconference has been added to RNCII. This new preconference is "Serving Latino Communities: A How-To-Do-It Workshop for Beginners", August 3rd, 8:30-12:30pm. Fee: $40.
Description: A half-day workshop designed for professionals who want to initiate aggresive efforts to provide library services to underserved Latino communities. Handouts will be provided. Presenters are:
Dr. Camila Alire, Dean of Colorado State Libraries, Fort Collins, CO., and Orlando Archibeque, Social Science Bibliographer at the Auraria Library, serving the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the University of Colorado at Denver - co-authors of Serving Latino Communities: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians, New York, Neal-Schuman, c1998.
The first announced preconference "Electronic Resources for a New Majority" was described fully in the Summer REFORMA Newsletter. Both preconferences will be publicized via a new brochure which premiered at FIL and will be available at Midwinter.
Preconference Committee members are:
Rafaela Castro, Chair, Preconference Committee , Shields
Library, U.C. Davis (rgcastro@ucdavis.edu)
Richard Chabran, Director, Center for Virtual Research,
U.C. Riverside (chabran@clnet.ucr.edu)
EXHIBITS
by Carol Brey , chair, Exhibits Committee
The Exhibits Committee mailed packets of information to over 300 potential exhibitors for RNCII. These packets included information about Tucson and the conference, as well as information of interest to exhibitors and a registration form. We also asked these exhibitors to consider corporate sponsorship of some RNCII events. Exhibitors must indicate initial interest in exhibit space by January of 2000, with final payment due in June -- so we are looking forward to a large and successful Exhibits area at RNCII!
The Exhibits material is also now available at the RNCII web page.
The Exhibits Committee has been working closely with the Local Arrangements Committee to plan events that will attract people to the Exhibits, including: exhibitor breakfast; no-conflict exhibit time; author signings and readings; door prizes/giveaways; prizes for best booths.
We are also planning poster sessions on a varietiy of topics to be presented in the Exhibits area. If you are interested in providing a poster session, please contact a member of our committee for an application form
Applications forms will also be issued via REFORMNET in the near future.
We welcome any additional suggestions or ideas regarding exhibits at RNCII.
Members of the Exhibits Committee:
Carol Brey, Chair, Director, Thomas Branigan Memorial
Library, Las Cruces, NM (cbrey@las-cruces.org)
Norice Lee, Librarian, Dona Ana Branch Community College
(nlee@lib.nmsu.edu)
David Myers, Assoc. Dean of Libraries, New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, NM (myers@nmsu.edu)
Verla Peterson, Assist. Director, Thomas Branigan Memorial
Library, Las Cruces, NM(vpeterson@las-cruces.org)
Suzie Husband, Tucson-Pima County Library (520-791-4391)
AWARDS COMMITTEE - RNCII Library School Award: The Power
of Education
by Lily Castillo-Speed, chair, Awards and Publications
Committee
The RNCII Library School Award Committee (or Award Committee for short) is planning the process for honoring a library school during RNCII. The deserving library school will be ALA accredited and will be exceptional in the following areas as they relate to Latinos in the U.S.:
Lillian Castillo-Speed, Chair, U.C. Berkeley (csl@library.berkeley.edu)
Susan Freiband, University of Puerto Rico
Arnulfo Trejo, Hispanic Books Distributors, Tucson, AZ
Ninfa Trejo, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Judith Valdez, Auraria Library, Denver, CO
FUNDRAISING
by Rhonda Rios Kravitz, chair, Fundraising Committee
(rrioskravitz@csus.edu)
We have successfully raised about $20,000 to date. We still have a ways to go to meet our $70,000 goal. This money will be used to pay speakers, fund special programs, pay for scholarships to bring library school students to our conference, and lower the costs per person for meals at our special events.
There are many things you can do to help us meet our targeted goal. It's easy and fun!
- Make a donation to RNCII if you haven't yet done so
The Local Authors Committee has contacted the following authors who have agreed to participate at RNCII: Miguel Juarez, Byrd Baylor, Patricia Preciado Martin, Demetria Martinez, Ofelia Zepeda, Felipe Molina, Minnie Valenzuela, Albert Rios, and Bobbie Salinas. The committee is arranging for two author luncheons. The Tucson Unified School District Bilingual Education Department can sponsor Bobbie Salinas-Norman, a children's author. She recently won the Tomas Rivera award for literature. Ofelia Zepeda, a Native American author, will also be asked to speak at an author's luncheon. She has recently been named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow. The other authors will be available to sign books and also to speak in the exhibits area.
The Hospitality Committee will be meeting with Karen Tulgren from the Metropolitan Visitor's Center to inquire about hotel and travel arrangements.
Three receptions/and or dinner events are being planned by the staff. The first BIENVENIDOS RECEPTION will be held at the Main Library on Thursday night. The Friends of the Tucson-Pima Public Library will sponsor this evening event. The AWARDS/CULTURAL NIGHT will be held at the Music
Hall on Friday night. Entertainment will be provided. We are exploring the possibility of showing the movie Luminarias after the ceremonies are over and extending the invitation to the local community. The director of the film has expressed an interest in participating. We are also exploring the idea of a reception for an art show at the Tucson-Pima Arts Council before the Awards/Cultural night activities. The DINNER/DANCE EVENT will take place at the Holiday Inn on Saturday night. Costs of these events for conference participants has not yet been determined.
The following are Local Arrangements RNCII committees:
Co-Chairs : Amanda Castillo (acastil1@ci.tucson.az.us)
Bob Diaz (jdiaz@bird.library.arizona.edu)
Exhibits and Local Craft Vendors: Suzie Husband (shusban1@ci.tucson.az.us)
Registration: Yvonne Espino (yespino1@ci.tucson.az.us)
Local Authors: Mary Kasulaitis (mkasulaitis@pimacc.pima.edu)
Hospitality: Donie Gignac (dgignac1@ci.tucson.az.us)
Bievenidos Reception: Liz Miller (lmiller1@ci.tucson.az.us)
Awards/Cultural Night: Elaine Valenzuela (evalenz1@ci.tucson.as.us)
Dinner/Dance: Ramona Grijalva (rgrijal1@ci.tucson.us)