SELA

📢 Editor needed for The Southeastern Librarian, our official open-access, peer-reviewed journal. ✅ 3-year term (starting Jan. 2026) ✅ $1,200 yearly stipend ✅ SELA membership required 📩 Apply today with letter of interest, CV, & 2 recommendation letters for lcs0017@uah.edu.

The TN Library Association 2025 Conference is April 8-10 in Chattanooga! 📚 Theme: Back to Basics 🎤 Keynote: Karin Peabody on Differentiated Leadership & workplace anxiety 📅 Full schedule: tnla25.sched.com

A huge thank you to everyone who presented, attended, and helped make the LLA/SELA Joint Conference such a success! We can’t wait to do it all again - save the date for our next Joint Conference with Kentucky in October 2026! #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

Congrats to Sarah Simms & Deidra Douglas! Sarah received LLA’s Academic Award, and Deidra earned the Lucy B. Foote Award for special librarianship. Kenya Iverson honored SELA Pres. Laura Slavin, Past Pres. Crystal Gates & Pres.-Elect Kristin Rogers for their work on #SELA2025!

And the winners are…SELA’s Bruce Almighty! Then Dude, Where’s my Tardis and Biggest Winners. Congratulations!

Jeremy is emceeing our Trivia and Kristin keeping score as teams Bruce Almighty, Biggest Winners, Unforeseen Circumstances, and Dude, Where’s my Tardis go head to head tonight! #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

Head on down for SELA’s Trivia Night starting at 6! Test your knowledge, enjoy some friendly competition, and support a great cause in the Riverview Room. Don’t worry if you didn’t register! Admission available at the door. #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

Day 2 of #SELA2025 is off to a fantastic start with sessions on censorship, outreach, and innovation. 📚✨ Don’t forget: 🍽 1 PM – “The Director Is In” panel discussion 🎉 6 PM – SELA Trivia Night #CenturyofService

Tonight at The Phantom of the Library Awards, SELA President Laura Slavin presented the 2025 Joint Conference Resolution. SELA celebrates its collaboration with LLA for a successful conference & thanks the team who made it possible. #SELA2025 #CenturyofService

✨📚✨ Day 1 of the LLA/SELA Joint Conference Is here! 🎉 🔥 Can’t-miss events: 🗣️ Sessions on leadership, digital literacy, and community engagement 🎭 Tonight’s Awards Ceremony & Reception (Phantom of the Library theme!) Click the photo for more. #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

Head on down to the hotel’s Kingfish Restaurant in about an hour to pay at the door!

The LLA/SELA Joint Conference starts today! 🎉 Join us for pre-conference sessions on grants, strategic planning, and book bans, libraries, and the law. Plus, don’t miss the library tour, ribbon-cutting, and the #CenturyofService with LLA celebration! #SELA2025

Conference Parking & Volunteers Needed! 🚗 Hilton Capitol Center •$37/day valet •$18 for 0-12 hours valet Hotel Indigo Baton Rouge Downtown •$33/day + taxes valet (24-hour access) Self-parking near the Hilton 🔹 We need volunteers! volunteersignup.org/T4YL8

📖✨ We’re celebrating 100 years of LLA in true Gatsby style! Join us at The Tunnel, an authentic 1920s speakeasy on your best 1920s style, for the LLA/SELA After-Hours Party during #SELA2025! 📅 Thursday, March 20 ⏰ 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. 💰$10 at the door #CenturyOfService

Take a look at the LLA/SELA Joint Conference Online Auction at 32auctions.com/LLA2025 #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

A huge shoutout to our LLA/SELA Joint Conference sponsors: EBSCO Lockstep Technology Group Press L. Robinson Sr. THANK YOU! There are still volunteer spots for attendees available. Your help makes a big difference! Sign up: volunteersignup.org/T4YL8 #SELA2025 #CenturyOfService

HUGE Thank You to our sponsors for supporting the LLA/SELA Joint Conference! LSU SIS - Awards Ceremony & Reception The Library Interiors Group – Friday Exhibit Hall Refreshments tutor.com – Conference Bags We’re looking for volunteers - volunteersignup.org/T4YL8

The Alabama Association of College & Research Libraries hosts a Virtual Unconference on July 24 - where you create the sessions! 🎤💡 Join the conversation & shape the event by taking this survey: uab.libwizard.com/id/5f61a4912b1…

🎉 Our SELA/LLA Conference is packed with exciting events! 📅 March 20 – After-Hours Party 🎶 (1920s theme) 📅 March 21 – Awards Ceremony 🎭 (“Phantom of the Library” ball) 📅 March 22 – SELA Trivia Night 🧠 💡 Plus, we need volunteers! Sign up here: volunteersignup.org/T4YL8

2025 Joint Conference - Register Now Let's celebrate A Century of Service together! 📆 Conference Dates: March 20-22, 2025 Location: Hilton Capitol Center, Baton Rouge, LA Registration savings with code SELA25 through March 8 @ llaonline.org/event-6031187 #SELA2025 #CenturyofService