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Get your internet on at The Fairmont
Userful generously offered to host a free internet cafe here at PLA Spring Symposium. So, if you’re here at the conference, you can check your email, read the news, and post photos, you can do that in the Imperial Ballroom in the main Fairmont building. Kudos to PLA for continued support of internet access for [...]
Just settling in for the Spring Symposium!
I landed in San Jose about an hour ago, and I’m getting my act together to start coverage on the PLA 3-day affair. Kathleen and I will both be working on the podcasts of the keynote, author talk, and my wiki presentation, while I’ll be blogging the Customer Service in Public Libraries, 21st Century Style [...]
March of the Librarians
A humorous, documentary-style look at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Seattle by Nick Baker. Hit the play button to view (it’s 4min 58sec long, and totally safe for work).
Librarian of the Year to Keynote Spring Symposium
Susan Hildreth, president of the Public Library Association (PLA), is pleased to announce that Mary Baykan, Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year 2007, will present the keynote address at the Opening General Session of the PLA Spring Symposium. The session, scheduled for March 1, 2007 at the Fairmont San Jose, is open to all Symposium [...]
Podcast: Impromptu interview with Joseph Eagan
The evening of Saturday, January 20 was a typical party-hopping affair. First I hit the NMRT social at the Elephant and Castle in the Red Lion Hotel, organized by one of our own conference bloggers Heidi Dolamore, and somehow found myself in the company of many, many ALA Councilors amidst the new members, some of [...]
A wiki for public libraries: your feedback requested
I had the opportunity to run this idea by about 10 PLA committees on Sunday, January 21 at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, and everyone had really, really positive feedback, including volunteers to contribute people power and content, and ideas on related programs at the upcoming PLA conference in Minneapolis. You may have also seen a [...]
ALA Council
Hi everybody, I’m Heidi. Now that I’m back home in San Francisco, I finally have time to post about Seattle! My term as an at large member of Council began last summer, but so far that’s just meant that I got subscribed to the Council email list. The Council sessions at Midwinter were my first [...]
On my way home…
I left Seattle at 1:17pm PST this afternoon, and I’m currently waiting out my layover listening to the State of the Union address on my laptop via stream from the NPR web site, while I check email and work on a few more posts. Speaking of posts, you will likely see a few more posts [...]
Blogging the Booth, Part 2: Noon to One : Avoiding Eye-Contact
I should’ve learned from my own experience mommy-(and my-cat-fluffy-) blogging: Never promise a follow-up post “tomorrow.” Sure, you’ve got about one day’s wiggle-room thanks to the International Date Line, but that’s rarely enough time for anyone with a life (or, actually, small children. There are plenty of lives that make “forgetting to blog” a lot [...]
PLA Service Responses Discussion Forum @ Midwinter
The discussion just ended, and boy, was it enthusiastic and involved. June Garcia and Sandra Nelson ran the session like a well-oiled machine, working through all 17 service responses in 2 hours, which is, in my mind, very impressive. I want to say that there were 51 people in this room (one attendee was pleasantly [...]
