Posts Tagged "ALA2005"

ALA 2006 attendence numbers

As of the ALA-APA meeting this morning, these are the total attendence numbers:
ALA 2006 New Orleans – Member registration:

Advance = 9,047
On-site = 2,765
Total = 11,812

As a comparison, these are the numbers from Chicago and Orlando:
ALA 2005 Chicago – Member registration:

Advance = 13,407
On-site = 5,591
Total = 18,998

ALA 2004 Orlando – Member registration:

Advance = 10,201
On-site = 3,137
Total [...]

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Smartest Card: What’s Your Story

Karen Hyman, Executive Director of the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, always has something interesting to say, and the humor in her delivery is just downright entertaining. After her fabulous presentation at the Smartest Card symposium at Midwinter, her presentation on telling a story to market, defend, or just talk about your library was [...]

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Council Wrap-Up and a Taste of Taste

My conference experience ended with a half-finished cab ride in which a limo opened its door as our cab pulled up to one of my cab mate’s hotel. No one was hurt (at least the fistfight between the drivers had not yet broken out when I decided to head north on Michigan). [...]

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Smartest Card: Talking the Talk

Smartest Card: Talking the Talk
Originally uploaded by AndreaMercado.
Peggy Barber and Linda Wallace, founders of the Library Communication Strategies, Inc. consulting firm, gave an excellent presentation on the beauty and brilliance of word-of-marketing for libraries.
When Peggy asked the crowd a few questions to start (there were about 66 people in attendence):
How many people in the room [...]

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Smartest Card: George Needham, VP Member Services, OCLC

George Needham, the neat freak
Originally uploaded by AndreaMercado.
George Needham talked to the Smartest Card crowd on Friday, Jun 24 about how environmental scanning – examining and evaluating your current culture and methods, and those of the competition – is key to forming a marketing plan. George also reported extensively on OCLC the report titled [...]

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DDR, Monday Night and Homeward Bound

After the YALSA Annual Meeting and President’s Program on Monday, I celebrated happy hour with librarians from NY and NJ. We decided to have a quick dinner, but upmteen blocks and an hour later, the next thing I knew, David Sedaris was going on stage and I was downtown eating wontons and orange peel shrimp. [...]

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Record-breaking 27,800 attend 2005 ALA Annual Conference

Wow!:
“Approximately 27,800 attendees and exhibitors attended the 2005 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago, June 23 to 29. This compares with 19,575 total attendees at the 2004 ALA Conference in Orlando.”

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Crossing International Borders

This session included presentations by five librarians who work in libraries that serve multi-lingual and multi-cultural populations.
Barbara Clubb of Ottawa Public Library started off the program by speaking about how OPL is required by the government to serve both French and English speaking populations. OPL offers bilingual reference and information services, programming, children’s services, speakers [...]

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Communication Skills for Managers

David Orenstein’s presentation, in his own words, was a “little schizophrenic.” Schizophrenic or not, he had some excellent information to share that he’s garnered over several years of management experience.
His talk started with an overview of salary advocacy and communicating the need for fair compensation in libraries. He led a multi-year fight [...]

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PLA President’s Program

Wow – after laughing hysterically with David Sedaris and an enormous crowd yesterday, it’s a bit of a wake-up call to be back at work, sorting through e- and print mail. Sedaris read a couple of his works (including a new one regarding a salon visit between a baboon and a cat; he’s writing [...]

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