The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library Association
a Louisiana library visit
I’m sitting in the San Antonio airport, waiting for the second of my three flights home. I have all kinds of exciting conference sessions to blog about, but in the meantime, I wanted to point to a few of these pictures of hurricane and flood damage in Louisiana libraries. On Friday, Heidi Dolamore and I [...]
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 [...]
Good CLENE Fun
Although it wasn’t very well attended (as I’m thinking ALA New Orleans has generally turned out to be), the annual Continuing Education Round Table’s session Saturday afternoon was very worthwhile. CE trainers, teachers and coordinators are often called upon to energize a meeting with an “icebreaker,” often a koosh-ball throw (“Oops, sorry about your coffee!” [...]
Doin’ “it” by the book
Of course we librarians are fighting our stereotype down here in New Orleans. They’re selling a T-Shirt on Bourbon Street that says “Librarians do it by the book,” and the nature of the street suggests what “it” is. At a bar last night, I overheard a young man ask a young woman if she was [...]
Rural Library Support Guide
First cool takeaway, A Small But Powerful Guide to Winning Support for Your Rural Library. Available online from these handy URLs: http://ala.org/rural http://ala.org/tribal http://ala.org/native or specifically at this page: Toolkit for Winning Support
Bienvenue to New Orleans!
Hey y’all! I’m Anne Robert, a children’s librarian who works with the Jacksonville (FL) Library. I am a native Louisianaian; I lived in Baton Rouge (about 90 miles north of N’awlins) for 22 years. It’s great to be back in New Orleans – except for the humidity (one thing I don’t miss!). I arrived here [...]
LITA debate on the future of search and libraries
LITA hosted a debate between Roy Tenant, Stephen Abram, and Joseph Janes about the future of search and how libraries will be affected. Will libraries have a place in society in the future? Will Google take over the world and leave us in the dust? It fascinates me that this conversation keeps coming up. I [...]
from the Rocky Mountains to the Big Easy
Thursday morning I got up, dumped the hiking gear out of my backpack, filled it up with laptop, notebook, a few issues of The New Yorker, and my ALA schedule, and drove up to Cody to pick up my business cards and catch the plane. My name is Laura Crossett, and I live and work [...]
ALA Council orientation
eli Originally uploaded by heidi/quiddle. Hi everyone. I’m Heidi, Youth Services Librarian with the San Mateo County Library in San Carlos, California. I also keep a blog, quiddle. I was just elected to ALA Council, so I’ve got a lot of organizational meetings on my plate. This morning was Council orientation, where I learned all [...]
Orientations and the like
I started the official portion of the conference with two orientations. The first, an intro to New Orleans, its artists, its troubles and its beauties; the second an introduction to ALA conference life in general for us newbies. Many Voices, One Nation was an amazing kaleidoscope of readings, poems, dance, music. The Guardians of the [...]
