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ALA 2007: Swap’n'Shop, Special Collections, Hot Outreach Tech
ALA 2007: Swap’n’Shop, Special Collections, Hot Outreach Tech This week, we’ll be highlighting various ALA events that might be of interest to our readers, whether you happen to be attending ALA, or just keeping up with the conference here on the PLA Blog. Swap & Shop: Celebrate PR! Sponsored by LAMA Sunday, June 24 11 [...]
ALA President’s Program 1/22/06
There was a lot going on in this program above and beyond the title of “The Future Of Our Profession: Educating Tomorrow’s Librarians,” but I will try to stick close to the original title topic. There are three questions that Andrei Codrescu put to himself when considering the future of librarianship: 1. How is a [...]
ALA’s Captionist Patricia Graves
ALA’s Captionist Originally uploaded by rochelle, et. al.. Many of you have probably been at an ALA program that was being live-captioned. I’m someone who tends to look at the captioning screen, rather than the people talking, and have made great sport of mis-captioned material. I hadn’t given much thought to the person who was [...]
I missed Forum on Education for Librarianship…
… and I really am disappointed that I missed it. However, I ran into a colleague on Saturday who had attended the forum as she was running out to lunch, and we chatted a bit about it. Overall, it sounds like it was a good session, or at least there were good parts to the [...]
A Blogger at Every Table
While looking at the posts by the prolific bloggers at the Midwinter Meeting (not just PLA, but YALSA, LITA, etc), I came to realize that the content represented a theory espoused by Kathleen de la Peña McCook about libraries within communities. McCook is known for her civic activism and “Librarian at Every Table” mantras. In [...]
Jackie and Molly, Best Books for YAs
As far as I’m concerned, I was still at the conference (aack, rookie mistake…I mean meeting) while I was on the plane from Dallas to Seattle. I sat next to some lovely folks who spent most of the four hour flight talking about books they liked. When they found out I’m a librarian, they got [...]
Random thoughts on ALA and San Antonio
1. Sun in January! Yippee! 2. A discussion group that has no agenda other than the subject topic can quickly turn into a good hour and a half discussion. 3. In San Antonio, people think 60 degrees is cold. 4. Wifi comes at a cost around here. Only free wifi near the conference was in [...]
ALA Council Session I
Since I’m running for Council Member-at-Large (Heidi Dolamore, vote for me!), I thought I should take a look and see what I’m getting myself into. There were less than ten non-Councilors observing the meeting, though there were plenty of chairs on the off chance a mob of folks obsessed with the Sturgis rules for parliamentary [...]
Sunday’s theme was “crashing”
Sunday morning I crashed the OCLC breakfast, mostly to meet my friend from NC. Per usual, I was running late and only caught the last fifteen minutes, and then sat in on the roundtable discussion at the general table. The conversation was veering towards 24/7 so I excused myself before I said something bad, and [...]
Home again, home again
Charlie Ticket gets me home Originally uploaded by Andrea Mercado. Unfortunately, today was my last day at the conference in San Antonio. After days of being sick trompsing through rain and cold, just to spite me the weather in San Antonio today was warm and *gorgeous*, and I came home to cold and *snowy* Boston. [...]
