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Power Up Your Learning Organization
After lunch on Thursday afternoon I found myself in: Power Up Your Learning Organization Handout Materials: http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070317PM.doc http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070620PM.docx http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070650PM.docx http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070723PM.docx http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070750PM.pdf http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070821PM.docx http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Gutsche_Betha_143757_Mar19_2010_Time_070932PM.docx Presenters: Kathleen Geisinger (WebJunction), Betha Gutsche (WebJunction), Michele Leininger (Pierce County Library System) and Jennifer Fenton, Washington State Library The presenters opened by offering a quotation whose source I did not catch: [...]
Brief session notes
Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Nicole Engard unfortunately was in the hospital and unable to present this program. David Lee King from Topeka and Shawnee County Library filled in. Right away, he proved a point about technology by whipping out his iPhone to film a short “get well” greeting for Nicole [...]
Conference Reflections – PLA Rocks
Although I still have seven sessions to summarize for you (unless fellow bloggers beat me to them!) over the next few days, I wanted to take a few moments to simply reflect on my experience of PLA 2010 in Portland as a whole. This was my first attendance at PLA, and owing to my recent [...]
Volunteering at the exhibit hall
Yesterday I volunteered at the PLA Membership Booth between the first and second sessions of the day. It was a lot of fun and a nice way to just chat with people who came by. There was one librarian from Chicago who said she was so happy to see young people entering the profession who [...]
Beyond Fact: Library/Museum Collaboration
The second session I attended on Thursday was: Beyond Fact: Libraries and Museums Making Science Accessible Presentation Materials – http://www.placonference.org/handouts/1560_Chun_Terrilyn_026390_Mar24_2010_Time_044539PM.pdf UNOFFICIAL Book Group Book List – http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/dcornwall/lists/1591609 The presenters from the Multnomah County Library, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OSMI) and the Multnomah County Health Department explained their grant funded collaboration aimed at [...]
Kadir Nelson
The Kadir Nelson Children’s Author Luncheon was wonderful! If you missed it, at least do yourself a favor and at least check out his beautiful work. Nelson discussed his development as an artist, from confident five-year-old and reluctant reader, to conceptual artist for film, to successful children’s book illustrator and author. Most illuminating was Nelson’s [...]
Confessions of New Library Directors
Despite the saucy title, this session had nothing in common with a certain Usher song. It was, nonetheless, a great session. New directors have many of the same experiences in a new job the rest of us have — lots of training, endless orientation sessions, meeting tons of new people, adjusting to a new role, [...]
Serving pregnant or parenting teens
I’m not sure what it is, but I seem to really enjoy the early morning sessions. Today the first one I attended was “Pregnant/Parenting Teens: Promoting Library Services Among the Underserved” with Maryann Mori, the director of the Waukee Public Library in Waukee, Iowa. She addressed the needs of pregnant and parenting teens, what libraries [...]
Oh, I Wish I’d Said…. (aka: Dealing with Difficult People)
My favorite session of the conference yet! Gail Johnson and Pam Parr started off my morning with laughter by waltzing through the dramatics of every day interactions in libraries. In dealing with difficult people, they outlined their session with 5 questions they would answer: Who are they? What was it really about? What do they [...]
Advanced Blackbelt Librarians
At my old library, I was known as a Ninja Librarian, so I attended this session with avid interest, eager to be further trained in the art of war this morning. Just kidding. Actually, my nickname was more related to a storytime I lead, rather than any martial arts skills I possess, but I really [...]
