TLA PROMPTBOOK
TLA PROMPTBOOK is an infrequent, brief, and informative email alert for the members of Theatre Library Association; detailed information and announcements will be published in BROADSIDE as usual. We promise not to deluge your mailboxes with more e-clutter than necessary. The TLA-L listserv continues as a forum for unmoderated discussion of issues related to performing arts collections, open by subscription to TLA members and non-members alike.
If you are a TLA member in good standing and are not receiving the TLA PROMPTBOOK alerts, or would like to change the email address to which they are sent, please contact info@tla-online.org.
Recent TLA PROMPTBOOK Alerts
#44 - BROADSIDE 37/2 Winter/Spring 2010
March 9, 2010
The Winter/Spring 2010 issue of BROADSIDE, Newsletter of the Theatre Library Association is now available on the TLA Website.
Inside this issue:
* President's Report
* Broadside News Network
* Reviews of books by Janet Mansfield Soares, Michael Schwartz, Kenneth Turan and more
Follow these instructions to download it:
1. Go to: http://www.tla-online.org/members/loginrequired/broadsideonline.html
2. In the dialog box that appears... Attention TLA Members: To obtain login information, contact info@tla-online.org
3. Click on the cover image of the issue.
If you don't have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you will need to download it first--click on the link labelled "Get Adobe Reader" to do so.
Send a message to info@tla-online.org if you encounter any problems.
#43 - Conference Planner Wanted for TLA/ATDS Joint Venture
February 16, 2010
Wanted: Someone to assist in the planning and organization of a series of one-day conferences (mini-conferences) to be jointly sponsored by TLA and the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). The 2-4 mini-conferences would be held on college/university campuses on the same Saturday and would be organized on a regional basis, allowing people to commute to the conference site and home on the same day. There would be one session in the morning and a second one in the afternoon. Participants would be free at noon to find lunch on their own and the conference would adjourn at 5:00 or 5:30 pm.
As the TLA Conference Planner, you would work with Beth Osborne, Conference Planner for ATDS, and TLA/ATDS Liaison, John Frick. Principle duties would be the recruitment of TLA members who would serve as local arrangements co-hosts. The local TLA and/or ATDS hosts would provide the meeting site, select and organize the sessions, and advise participants on restaurants near the conference location. The mini-conferences are intentionally designed to be simple to organize for both the TLA Conference Planner and for the local hosts and conference sites will be chosen for their accessibility.
Anyone interested in serving as the TLA representative should e-mail John Frick.
#42 - Theatre Survey Seeking Editor for Re:Sources Column
February 2, 2010
Theatre Survey is currently seeking an Editor for its Re:Sources column, a regular feature that appears in every issue. As part of the journal's commitment to publishing historical documents, Re:Sources features essays, documents, and interviews that promise to become important sources of theatre history to future generations.
Responsibilities include locating appropriate collections, commissioning (in consultation with the Editors of the journal) contributions by librarians and scholars, and occasionally writing columns. Theatre Survey is published twice a year, and the editorship of this column typically lasts 2-3 years.
Candidates should send a cover letter and CV to Leo Cabranes-Grant, Associate Editor of Theatre Survey, no later than February 20, 2010.
#41 - TLA Launches New Website - www.tla-online.org
January 19, 2010
TLA's new website is now online--with a new design, a new logo, improved navigation, and a new address. Go to www.tla-online.org to check it out. Please update all bookmarks and hyperlinks to the TLA website.
We have retained all of the content from the old site, and also added some new features, including a guide to getting involved in TLA, an archive of recent PROMPTBOOK alerts, and, most strikingly, a slideshow of images reflecting the collections and facilities of some of our member institutions, with more new features to come.
The login to access TLA's online publications has also changed. For both BROADSIDE and the Membership Directory... Attention TLA Members: To obtain login information, contact info@tla-online.org
Contact info@tla-online.org with requests for assistance, feedback... or if you would like an image from your institution included in the slideshow.
#40 - BROADSIDE 37/1 Fall 2009
December 5, 2009
The Fall 2009 issue of BROADSIDE, Newsletter of the Theatre Library Association is now available on the TLA Website.
Inside this issue:
* Book Awards Ceremony
* Election Results
* TLA Plenary at ASTR-TLA
* TLA at ALA
* Reviews of Helen Mirren's In the Frame, William Demastes' Comedy Matters, and more
Follow these instructions to download it:
1. Go to: http://www.tla-online.org/members/loginrequired/broadsideonline.html
2. In the dialog box that appears... Attention TLA Members: To obtain login information, contact info@tla-online.org
3. Click on the cover image of the issue.
If you don't have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you will need to download it first--click on the link labelled "Get Adobe Reader" to do so.
Send a message to info@tla-online.org if you encounter any problems.
#39 - 2009 Membership Directory Is Now Available Online
November 22, 2009
The Theatre Library Association Membership Directory, updated for 2009, is now available on the TLA website. Follow these instructions to download it:
1. Go to http://www.tla-online.org/members/loginrequired/directoryonline.html
2. In the dialog box that appears... Attention TLA Members: To obtain login information, contact info@tla-online.org
3. Click on the cover image of the Membership Directory (If you don't have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you will need to download it first--click on the link labelled "Get Adobe Reader" to do so).
Send a message to info@tla-online.org if you encounter any problems.
#38 - Executive Board Election Results
October 21, 2009
Six Board members were elected at TLA’s Annual Business meeting on October 9th. Phyllis Dircks, Beth Kattelman, Stephen Kuehler, Brook Stowe, Angela Weaver, and Sarah Zimmerman will serve three-year terms from 2010-2012. Colleen Reilly was elected Treasurer for the same three-year term.
TLA President Kenneth Schlesinger welcomes our new Board members, as well as Dircks, Kuehler and Weaver, who are returning. He gives special thanks for the service and contributions of departing members Beth Kerr, Tobin Nellhaus, and Ellen Truax. He would also like to acknowledge the generosity of Interim Treasurer Angela Weaver, who agreed to stay on one additional year.
#37 - Are You Interested in Serving As a Book Awards Juror?
October 14, 2009
The TLA Book Awards Committee is seeking one awards juror to serve a six-year term beginning in January 2010 as part of a team of three jurors charged with selecting the annual Theatre Library Association Award. Established in 1973, this Award is given each year to the best English-language book about recorded performance, including motion pictures, television, and radio published in the United States during the previous calendar year. Candidates should have a solid grounding in current cinema, television and radio publications and scholarship and are strongly advised that the position is quite labor-intensive, especially in the Spring of each year. For more information, please contact TLA Book Awards Chair Brook Stowe by Dec. 1st.
#36 - TLA-sponsored Events at the 2009 ASTR/TLA Conference
October 12, 2009
2009 ASTR/TLA Conference: Theatre, Performance, and Destination
November 11-15, 2009
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Registration, program and more at: http://astrconference.org/
Archival Tour (Coordinated by Lowell Fiet on behalf of ASTR and TLA)
Friday, November 13, 11AM-2PM
Tour of University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (main) Campus for a presentation by the director of the Seminar Room that houses the UPR collection; meeting with retired professor Victoria Espinosa, whose task it has been over the past decades to collect and catalogue the holdings. Tour may include the recently re-opened University Theatre, the Caribbean Regional Library of the Main José M. Lázaro Library, and the National Archive of Theatre and Film of the Puerto Rican Atheneum. Limited Availability; Bus transportation to be provided by University of Puerto Rico.
TLA Plenary Session: “Playing the Pilgrim”: Scholars, Collections, and Archival Destinations
Saturday, November 14, 11AM
Chair: Colleen Reilly, Slippery Rock University
* Sharon M. Carnicke, University of Southern California, Hispanic Performance and the Politics of Statehood: The Three Kings of Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico
* Lofton Durham, Western Michigan University, Researching Jacques Milet's Destruction de Troie: Historiographic and Archival Vectors of Late Medieval Theatre and Drama
* Elinor Fuchs, Yale School of Drama, From Historical Archive to Theatrical Interpretation, Or How We Got Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines
* Francesca Marini, University of British Columbia, From Venice, Italy, to Venice, California: Research Travel, Belle Époque Italian Playwrights, and the Accidental Discovery of Love (Francesca has withdrawn from the panel due to unforeseen circumstances but the abstract of her paper will be distributed on her behalf.)
Last updated: March 9, 2010