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taxonomy vs. folksonomy
Lorraine here, with a quick thought from the YALSA blogger meetup. Some serious work on tagging and categorization is taking place at the YALSA blog and much of it is clearly needed – having standardized tags and categories make stuff findable (I assume that I need not elaborate further, o library-blog readers…) However, Beth Gallaway [...]
Hello!
Hi everyone! I’m Anne Robert, a children’s/teen librarian with the Jacksonville (FL) Public Library. I got to Philly early this morning (at 8am *yawn*) and have done a little sight-seeing. I recommend everyone visit Reading Market – the food there is delicious! I will write more about events happening at Midwinter the next few days. [...]
Heading to Philly
Right now, I’m writing to you by way of my Blackberry, on an Amtrak train that left Boston at 6am (I just passed New Haven), on my way to Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Our conference bloggers are also making their ways to the Midwinter meeting, and you will soon be reading their introductory posts, as [...]
PLA @ ALA Midwinter: schedules and bloggers
The Midwinter meeting in Philly is fast approaching! If you’d like the 411 on committee meetings, visit the handy chart on the PLA web site, sorted alphabetically by committee name. We are also still recruiting bloggers for the conference. No experience is required, but great writing skills are desirable. Drop us a line through the [...]
Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog: Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere
Jed Moffitt of the King County LIbrary System began the PLA-sponsored Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog with family stories that somehow led to a disclosure that the topic of social software in libraries is not so cutting-edge as it was eighteen months ago when the topic was chosen for the American Library Association [...]
Hello from D.C.!
Hi everyone! I’m Anne Robert, a children’s/teen librarian with the Jacksonville (FL) Public Library system. This is my 5th time writing for the PLA Blog, and I’ll try to cover as much as I can! I arrived in DC this afternoon and took in the sights. I went to the Library of Congress Open House, [...]
Checking In for the PLA Blog
Hi. I am Rick Roche, and I will be blogging for the PLA Blog for the next few days. I will be attending various programs of interest to staff from public libraries and reporting on for you. I will also be writing some on my own blog ricklibrarian and posting some photos on my Flickr [...]
The conference bloggers are landing…
…one by one. After many flight delays (apparently, this was a common occurrence yesterday), I finally got to my hotel at midnight last night. After a day which included a 7:30a breakfast meeting, registration, and crashing the Library Journal Movers & Shakers luncheon, I’m *finally* making my first post. On the docket for this evening [...]
HowTo: Blog for PLA
Many of the emails of interest I’ve received about our Call for Bloggers for the ALA Annual conference have asked, “What does blogging for PLA entail?” Here’s the basics on how PLA blogs conferences, and how you can be involved. Who can be a PLA conference blogger? As you might expect, our preference is for [...]
Call for Bloggers: ALA 2007 in Washington, DC
If you’re heading to the ALA conference in June, consider sharing your experience by writing for the PLA Blog. Whether you’re a librarian, student, trustee, director, or Friend of the library, an experienced writer with a blog of your own, or just dipping your toe into the conference blogging experience, we’d love to have you [...]
