ALA President Reception @ BPL
January 17th, 2005 by Steven M. CohenAfter watching Malcolm Gladwell and others speak, we headed over to Carol Brey-Casiano’s reception at the BPL Social Sciences library. 3 PLA Bloggers were present and we had the chance to speak to Brey-Casiano after shooting some pictures.
I asked Brey-Casiano is she would be willing to talk-up the PLA Blog at her various meetings and she seemed welcome to the idea. I also cornered Keith Michael Fiels at the turkey station, even though we had already spoke about the blog earlier in the week, and he agreed to do the same. Actually, I was told by a colleague that Fiels told her that I was the “nice young man who is running the blog.” Well, thank you very much Mr. Fiels.
Continuing Andrea’s and Rochelle’s point about reframing the profession, I think that blogs can do a great deal in pushing more content, events, scholarships (Andrea told me this morning that she wished she knew about a scholarship that was available when she went to library school: a blog may have helped her gain this knowledge), and much more. Blogs can move the power (read: knowledge) into the hands of more people, not just a selected few. Blogs can help re-energize librarianship by getting more people involved in the profession. Blogs can reframe. Granted blogs can’t do it alone, but they can surely help.
The fact that the “young crowd” was chatting it up with the “older librarians” at the president’s reception says alot about this reframing.
Tags: ALAMidwinter2005, conferences
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