Inside ZSR
I left for ALA Thursday, a day earlier than most, primarily because Friday is the key meeting day for the Black Caucus. We began the morning with a new board members orientation. During the orientation I lead a discussion on the duties and responsibilities of an Executive Board member. The session continued with other segments... more ›
Thanks to those who responded to the querry I posed within my first NCLA post. I look forward to discussing your answers with each of you. I hope others as you get a chance will consider responding as well. Thursday morning of NCLA featured several of our LAMS sponsored programs. Beginning with Dr. Larry White,... more ›
I am down in Greenville, attending the North Carolina Library Association’s 58th Biennial Conference themed, “NC Libraries: Serving Knowledge…Serving You. “Tuesday was a day for morning travel eastward on a most rainy and dreary day to conference headquarters for a Library Administration and Management Section (LAMS) sponsored pre-conference that outlined strategies and goals used in... more ›
I began this conference day with a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the Bank of America directly across the street from my hotel. BCALA officers gathered to have account signature cards changed and signed according to specific instructions as given to our treasurer by his New York branch of Bank of America. So there we stood... more ›
I walked over to see Lynn receive her most deserving award early yesterday morning and the weather was absolutely beautiful.After the award program I ran out to serve on a focus group hosted by PROQUEST to discuss the future of microfilm.I joined representatives from eight other universities, includng Duke an NCCU, each enticed to share... more ›
This morning after reading the BCALA schedule of weekend activities I noticed that an update on the 7th National Conference was to be given at an 8:00 a.m. session entitled “Orientation to the Black Caucus.”I quickly offloaded my free breakfast to Susan and proceeded to the session.I was really glad that I did.Participating in the... more ›
I arrived in Chicago on Thursday just in time for a 2:30 p.m. meeting with my co-chair, Roberta Webb who is actually located right there in Chicago.Roberta and I are tasked as conference planning co-chairs for the 2010 Conference of African American Librarians to be held in Birmingham, Alabama. We had a most productive session... more ›
Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration, an entrepreneurial conference for librarians planned by several librarians from UNC-G and Mary Beth, Mary Scanlon and myself from WFU. Mary Scanlon introduced the concept of using google docs to store the many discussion ideas, program proposals and other detailed planning documents. She graciously served as the groups official note keeper throughout... more ›
My second day at SAMM lasted only until noon, but was full of several interesting sessions. I began the day hearing Jason Battles from the University of Alabama, share insights on “Building Environments and Tools to Engage Library Users.” The problem as he states it is that libraries wait until new products, new web pages... more ›
The final SOLINET annual meeting is being held in Atlanta Thursday and Friday morning at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. The SAMM 09 conference entitled, the Changing World, Changing Libraries featured as open keynoter the Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, Dr. Tom Frey. Frey thinks our society is always... more ›