Inside ZSR
This year I decided to take a late flight into Los Angeles, arriving in the middle of a beautiful night and enjoying a pleasant less hectic shuttle ride into Anaheim. It was BCALA business as usual though on Friday morning. I naively thought that we’d be done with my portion of the morning agenda by... more ›
My midwinter adventure began with a 5:30 departure from Greensboro. This required a 3:20 alarm and resulted in a long, really tiring first day in Dallas. With BCALA meetings for most of Friday, I soon decided this had not been a wise decision. Saturday was off to a much better start. The ACRL Personnel Administrators... more ›
This may be about the 4th ALA I have attended here in New Orleans. However, something was so very different about this one. It took me a while to figure it out, then it hit me, it was the loud noise and over abundance of people stumbling all around. My hotel was too much in... more ›
On Friday afternoon after my BCALA filled morning, I attended the OCLC symposium entitled “Transformational Literacy: preparing user’s for life’s transitions.” Keynoter Dr. Mimi Ito, discussed principles for libraries to consider that help create environments that encourage lifelong learning as well as the critical role librarians play in this. The future is already here, it... more ›
Stephen Town, University Librarian at the University of York, UK, Tuesday’s opening keynoter, reminded librarians that library assessment has been mostly about quality and quantity, but not about value. However, libraries are under pressure to prove their value. Value he defined as the quality or fact of being excellent, useful or desirable. But what is... more ›
The 2010 Library Assessment Conference themed, Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, is the third in a series of planned conferences devoted to building an assessment culture and community within libraries. Held every two years, the conference is co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. This... more ›
I spent last weekend with several WFU colleagues from both campuses in an Institute for Dismantling Racism (IDR). We were joined by students from the Divinity School, and other representatives from the Forsyth Health Department, ECHO and the Green Street Baptist Church. One undergraduate WFU student was also in the group. The Institute was facilitated... more ›
Well into our conference, good news continued with regards to on-site registrations. Registration numbers continued to climb upwards totaling late this afternoon to 375. YEAH! I had stressed early in the planning stages when I heard about plans to have a local high school choir perform as a part of the opening ceremony. When their... more ›
Tuesday found me and other planning committee members settling in to the Sheraton Hotel in a hot sweltering Birmingham, Alabama. The afternoon was spent putting a face with the service provided. We met everyone from the chief bottle washer to the general manager, who co-incidentally managed the Adams Mart in Winston Salem prior to joining... more ›
With two very long days of board meetings and conference planning behind me, I settled down to center my attention on two different tracks held during the conference; assessment and staff development. The assessment sessions were sponsored by the Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation Section of the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA). The assessment first... more ›