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The meeting for my second ALA committee (LLAMA BES/LIFE=Library Leadership, Administration & Management Association, Building & Equipment Section/Library Interiors, Furnishings and Equipment Committee, whew!) took place this morning. The sole purpose of this committee is to generate programs for ALA Annual. Program planning takes about 18 months from conception to execution and has to go... more ›
Well, here I am at the Big Kahuna of library conferences, the ALA annual conference in Chicago. I arrived yesterday (Saturday) at the McCormick Place Convention Center at 1:25 PM hoping to attend a meeting at 1:30. Walking into the lobby outside the Exhibit hall (aka The Stacks) I tried to orient myself and find... more ›
As Lynn mentioned, I had an early start to the day by joining in on Bill’s Alibris morning run. It was a beautiful Chicago day and it was nice to be outside and running through Grant Park and along Lake Michigan. After I earned my t-shirt and trophy (which looks amazingly like the ones for... more ›
I started my day in the exhibits where I popped by to see Lauren and then went more systematically through the exhibits, which seem smaller to me this year from years past. I found an amazing microfiche/film/card reader that has some potential, picked up some posters, looked at and gave some input on a new... more ›
Here is Lynn receiving the Sirsi-Dynix ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers. Her award was presented by Linda Dobbs. Congratulations, Lynn! more ›
Sunday morning has started off with a bang. I didn’t get up quite as early as Susan who signed up for Bill’s Alibris 5K race in Grant Park, but my day started with the Sirsi-Dynix ALA-APA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Salaries and Status for Library Workers. Wanda and Ellen M. were there for... more ›
My day 2 at ALA began with my first ever committee meeting. I am on the Teaching, Learning and Technology committee of the Library Instruction Round Table. We had a good meeting and chose our next project. Plus it was really nice to put faces to names, as our committee gets most of its job... more ›
Sorry this post is running a day or two behind, but wifi is hard to come by during my days! I have mixed feelings about preconferences in general. I’ve been to a few good ones, but most I’ve attended were not worth the money as I feel they tend to be lots of people with... 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 started out bright and early this morning filling in for Wanda at a (free) Serials Solution breakfast where they announced the commercial release of their latest product “Summon,” a web-scale discovery service. This, finally, is the answer that libraries need: it “allows the researcher to quickly search, discover and access reliable and credible library... more ›