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Calling all public librarians attending any of the following Midwinter Institutes Friday, January 19, 2007:

• Reading & The School Library Media Specialist Institute (AASL)
• Managing the Changing Research Models in the Humanities Institute (ACRL)
• Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop Step-By-Step Institute (ALCTS)
• The Complex Edifice: Analyzing Your Dream Library Institute Days 1 and/or 2 (LAMA)
• Behind The Genealogy Reference Desk: Want Land, Will Travel Institute (RUSA)
• Definitely Digital: An Exploration of the Future of Knowledge on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Assocation for Library Collections & Technical Services Institute (ALCTS)
• Podcast vs. Libraries Podcasting and the New Culture of Personal Broadcasting on Campus Institute (LITA)
• Building Teen Communities Online (YALSA)
• Business Librarianship 101: Core Competencies for Business Librarianship Institute (RUSA)
• Advocacy Institute (ALA PIO)
• Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness: Using ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation Institute (ACRL)

As you know, we’re running an open call for bloggers for the ALA Midwinter 2007 meeting, and we’d love to have public librarians who happen to be registered for these Midwinter Institutes share their thoughts and what they’ve learned here on the PLA Blog.

Even if you don’t want to blog the rest of the conference, we’d love to have your contributions for these sessions, especially since there is so much that public librarians can gain from other parts of librarianship.  And, well, you’ll probably need to write up notes for when you get back to your libraries to fulfill a professional development requirement, so why not share them here, as well? 

Interested?  Send us an email with your name, title, library, and email address, as well as the Midwinter Institute you will be attending, and we’ll get you all set up and oriented for posting your content here on the blog.

Tags: ALAMidwinter2007, blogging, conferences, PLA, PLA Blog

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