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LAMA Preconference @ ALA2008: Learn to Live a Balanced Scorecard
An announcement from our friends over at the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA): LAMA MAES is sponsoring the pre-conference workshop “Living the Balanced Scorecard” Friday, June 27, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm during the ALA Annual 2008 conference in Anaheim. The workshop will feature Joe Matthews, Director of Mathews and Associates and author of [...]
Meg Cabot, You’ve Gone Too Far!
From the preconference luncheon featuring YA author Meg Cabot: On libraries: “I spent so much time in the library as a kid. The library had air conditioning, vending machines, spacious bathrooms, and books. I thought it was heaven. I could read whatever I wanted! I spent so much time escaping into the world of fiction.” [...]
Sweet to Super Hot
I thought I’d try something different for my first preconference session, so I attended Romance Readers Advisory 101. I sat in the back row with the other three guys. Romance fiction is often ridiculed as over simplistic, formulaic, and anti-feminist. However, over 64 million Americans read romance novels last year, and romance accounts for about [...]
Deadline extended for 3M Leadership Institute
PLA has extended the application deadline for the 3M Leadership Institute to November 16. Applications may be submitted through an online form available at www.pla.org. PLA will notify applicants of their acceptance by the end of November. Presented by PLA and 3M, a PLA partner, the Leadership Institute is a daylong preconference focused on developing [...]
Learn to be a change agent within the profession! Special preconference opportunity…
PLA and 3M, a PLA Partner, will be offering a special daylong preconference focused on developing leaders and creating transformational change agents within the library profession. Participants will learn how to set a change strategy, how to handle various challenges, and what innovations can be most productive in implementing, driving and defining change. The preconference [...]
Introduction from Steve Butzel
Hi! My name is Steve Butzel, and I am head of the reference department and the library webmaster at the Nashua Public Library in Nashua, NH. I am also the coordinator of our library’s reference desk blog. This is my first time attending ALA Midwinter, and all I can say is that I have been [...]
CORRECTION: An invitation to a GODORT ANNUAL Preconference
[Upon original posting, I mistakenly filed this under the ALA Midwinter 2007 category, when the even is actually happening at ALA Annual 2007. Many thanks to Chuck for pointing out the discrepancy!] Received from Charles Malone, Government Information Librarian at Western Illinois University via email today: On behalf of GODORT and its International Documents Task [...]
