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Whirlwind tour of Hennepin County Library
Meg Canada, who works as Librarian as well as in Assistive Technology & Teen Services Online for the Hennepin County Library (I hope I got your title right!), and is also a lovely friend of mine, graciously took the time on Thursday, March 27 to give me an epic-yet-whirlwind tour of not only the Hennepin [...]
Virtual Conference: Adobe Connect, Nancy Pearl, and the pinch hit
Nearly 200 people are registered to attend the PLA 2008 Virtual Conference (everyone who attends the PLA 2008 conference in Minneapolis can also log in now to participate, or later to gain access to the archives), and so far, everyone seems to be really happy with it. I was recruited to “host” the conference, which [...]
The mother load
If you want to see more of my time at PLA than I have posted here, you can check out my flickr photo set for more pictures and snippets!
Crouching Tiger, Global Reading
I was a bit leery when I read the course description for this workshop. I just didn’t believe there was any way to get the children at my library off the computer and excited about reading. I thought I had tried it all. I’m happy to say, I think I was wrong. The Global Reading [...]
Literacy-palooza
Please pardon my lack of posting yesterday; I couldn’t get my login to work. I promise to make up for it tonight with a series of posts about my first two days at PLA. I have to say, that I’m definitely filling the “way too excited about everything” niche. Wednesday, after our Party Bus arrived, [...]
Yakkety Yak
Others have already given great overviews of the opening session with John Wood, so I won’t go into that. I did want to share some of my personal gleanings that I plan to share with my library. Much of what he says can translate into how we can/could/should ? serve the poor in our local [...]
