Updated: 8/23/10
Would you like to get more involved in GLPA?
The Great Lakes Planetarim Association is great because of the wonderful professionals that are involved, and offer their skills and experience. Would you like to get involved, or get MORE involved? See the Get Involved web page for details and ideas.
Stay Connected through Social Media
Get updates throughout the year by joining us on Facebook, or following us on Twitter.
Tips for Keeping Your Planetarium Open
In these difficult economic times, planetariums are often facing closure. Are you doing everything you can to reduce the chance that your planetarium will be closed? GLPA wants to help! We're making our Tips Booklet on this subject available to all for free. We hope you can find it to be helpful.
TIPS For Keeping Your Planetarium Open
Electronic Mail Lists (Listservs)
Two lists may be of particular interest to GLPA members. Both are moderated to contain only material of interest to planetarium professionals.
- The GLPA email list is maintained by Jeff Hunt. To subscribe to the list, send an email with nothing in the subject or body of the message to glpa-on@ipsd.org. Once you are subscribed you may send postings to the list at glpa@ipsd.org.
- Dome-L is a worldwide list maintained by Rovy Branon. To subscribe,
go to:
http://groups.google.com/group/dome-l
Click "Sign in and apply for membership", and fill in the form.
Once subscribed you may send postings to:
dome-l@googlegroups.com.
Nomination Forms
The following links have information about each award, and a nomination form you can print, complete, and submit. The PDF files below require a free PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Fellow of GLPA: fellow-form.pdf (PDF file; 24k)
- Honorary Life Member: honorary-life-form.pdf (PDF file; 24k)
- Galileo Award: galileo-award.pdf (PDF file; 64k) [Deadline: June 1st]
GLPA Gift Shop
GLPA maintains a simple Gift Shop which carries a small selection of items. See the GLPA Gift Shop page for more information.