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2024 UELMA Awards – Call for Nominations

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2024 UELMA Awards

The Utah Educational Library Media Association (UELMA) is seeking nominations for its 2024 Awards in the categories of:

  • Certified Teacher Librarian
  • Library Paraprofessional
  • K-12 Administrator

These awards recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of educational library media in Utah.

If you know of a Certified Teacher Librarian, Library Paraprofessional, or K-12 Administrator who has gone above and beyond in their service to students and the library community, now is the time to nominate them for this prestigious award. This is a great opportunity to recognize the hard work and dedication of those who are making a difference in the lives of students and educators.

To submit a nomination, visit the UELMA website and fill out the nomination form. Be sure to provide detailed information about the nominee’s contributions to the field and how they have impacted the library community. Nominations will be accepted beginning Tuesday, January 16, 2024, until Friday, February 2, 2024, so don’t hesitate to nominate someone today!

Thank you for your support in recognizing those who are making a difference in the field of educational library media.

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UELMA & UCET Join Forces for 2024 Spring Conferences

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We are so excited to finally announce the news about our upcoming 2024 UELMA Conference and the fact that we will be joining forces with UCET for an incredible event that is sure to change your educational experience!

Check out the event details below and a joint message from UELMA President Gretchen Zaitzeff and UCET President Matthews Winter announcing and explaining the decision to combine forces. Then read through a couple of posters with the different keynote and featured along with information about some of the different educational strands we’re looking to host for sessions. And if you’re feeling up to it, use the QR code on the final poster (or go to https://ucet.org/2024proposals) to submit a proposal to present! Proposals are being accepted until October 15th, 2023!

What: 2024 UCET/UELMA Conference

When: March 19th – 20th

Where: Salt Palace Convention Center – 90 S W Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

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Thank you!

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On behalf of the Utah Educational Library Media Association, we want to Thank You for attending the 2020 UELMA Annual Conference, LIbraries are for Everyone, on March 6, 2020 at Weber State University.

In order to make next year’s conference even more successful we request that you fill out conference evaluation survey. You will also be able to request an attendance certificate for re-licensure points and USBE credit at the end of the evaluation.  We thank you in advance for your comments and suggestions and we assure you that each will be given consideration so that future conferences and events will be even more of a success. We hope that you found the conference informative and worthwhile. No matter if you were an attendee, presenter, exhibitor/sponsor, or all three, your presence helped to make this event a great success!

As a reminder, if you were a presenter, please remember to upload your session resources to your Sched page so late attendees can access them online. Please refer to the sched help document on how to do that.

UELMA continues to function as an organization because of the support from you! We look forward to our 2021 conference and in order to receive updates and information, please subscribe to our page, UELMA.org.

Sincerely,

The UELMA  2020 Conference committee

Keynotes

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What do the authors Ellen Oh, Karl Beckstrand and Frank Cole all have in common?

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Ellen Oh is the co-founder of We Need Diverse Books, the groundbreaking, grassroots non-profit organization that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

She is also the author of the award-winning Spirit Hunters series for middle grade readers and the Prophecy trilogy (Prophecy, Warrior, and King) for young adults.

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Publisher and speaker Karl Beckstrand is the bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator of 21 multicultural/multilingual books and more than 60 ebook titles. He has a B.A. in journalism from BYU, an M.A. in international relations from APU, and a broadcast & film certificate from Film A. Academy.

Since 2004 he has run Premio publishing focusing on multicultural YA fiction, e-book mysteries, nonfiction/biographies, Spanish language & bilingual picture books (with ESL/ELL pronunciation guide), short stories, wordless books, Up-lit, and activity STEM books (astronomy, zoology, ecology) feature diverse characters in vivid color.

Frank L. Cole was born into a family of southern storytellers and wrote his first book at age eight. Highly superstitious and gullible to a fault, Frank will believe in any creepy story you tell him, especially ones involving ghosts and Big Foot. Currently, along with his wife and three children, he resides in the shadow of a majestic western mountain range, which is most likely haunted. Potion Masters The Transparency Tonic is Frank’s 11th published book.


All three will be at our conference on March 06. Will you? Register and get more information on our UELMA.org and Conference pages.