Inside ZSR
For the past two days (whenever I can!) I’ve been participating in the ACRL/LAMA Joint Virtual Institute. The theme of the institute is Leading from the Middle: Managing in All Directions. I participated in this because I gave a poster session on the student supervision model I developed in Microtext (this didn’t embed as nicely... more ›
Earlier this month Susan had sent an email to Lib-L about the Duke Center for Instructional Technology showcase. I’m always interested to hear what is now and interesting in instructional technology, and it’s hard to pass up a free opportunity to see what’s going on at another local institution. It was a wonderful one-day workshop.... more ›
As you might guess I spend the evening in the back of the room, live-blogging the talk. Kniffel was addressing a number of audiences: writers, librarians, and students, so he spoke on a wide array of topics. My notes focus on things that seemed relevant from the academic library perspective. Here’s the post. more ›
I was very excited to attend and present at Lilly South in Greensboro this year. LillySouth is a teaching and learning conference for college faculty, staff, and instructors. It was one of those conferences I heard about over and over in library school (in my Instructional Design classes) and everyone always had great things to... more ›
The LITA Town Meeting was first thing this morning. Part of my role as LITA’s Emerging Leader is to work with the LITA vice-president/president elect, and that kicks off with the Town Meeting. Our theme for the year is communication and marketing, and the group had some very interesting discussions. I have the big sheets... more ›
Sunday was busy, but didn’t feel nearly as busy as Friday or Saturday. I even had time for lunch!! At dinner Susan had said she was going to Top Tech Trends in the morning, and since my morning was a little bit flexible, I went too. We got the last two chairs together and both... more ›
Yesterday was pretty busy, so I didn’t get a chance to write up my notes for blogging until I got back to my hotel (without internet)… so here’s what I wrote up, posted in quick succession: I attended the LITA Interest Group/Committee Chair meeting where we got information about chairing responsibilities and saw a few... more ›
In an effort to keep the PD blog readable, I’ve been posting periodic updates to my own blog: emerging leaders leadership discussion mw2008 emerging leaders group meeting/leadership analysis emerging leaders group meeting emerging leader discussion on negotiation So far it’s been a good experience! We have developed an interesting project, so here’s hoping it goes... more ›
Is Library 1.0 Ready for Web 2.0: Library 2.0 ca 2007 Technology and Trends Roundtable Robert H. McDonald, UC San Diego, Director Strategic Data Alliances Supercomputer Center Met another Twitter friend! He’s the presenter. This is fun! Hired by Supercomputer Center because a large part of that is working with cultural heritage centers like libraries... more ›
Poet Mark Smith-Soto spoke and read poetry. Various NCLA folks talked about the state of NCLA. Attendance at this conference is over 1000. A number of awards were announced. GladysAnn Wells, director and state librarian of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records Full text will be included in conference edition of (I think)... more ›