Day Three at ALA 2008

Day three at ALA was my last day in California, after about four weeks of traveling throughout the state. By that point, I was very tired, and only managed to attend one program before heading home. The program I attended was called Hey! I Want to Do That Too! Gaming and the Elementary Age Child [...]

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Day Two at ALA 2008

I attended three sessions on Saturday, June 28, 2008: Kids and Ever-Cool: Find Them Together at Your Library (1030-1200), Metadata Mashup: Creating and Publishing Application Profiles (1330-1430), and Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the Information Rights of the Individual (1600-1730).
Kids and Ever-Cool: Find Them Together at Your Library

The main speaker in [...]

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ALA Annual 2008 101

Yesterday, Friday, June 27, 2008, was my fourth day in Anaheim and my first day at the ALA Annual 2008 Conference. Joe Osborn and I attended YALSA 101 (from 1600-1700) and Intellectual Freedom 101 (1700-1800).
YALSA 101
YALSA 101 was an introduction to the conference and YALSA as a division. I went to the ACRL 101 program [...]

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Delicious Library 2

I’m currently in California, been here since Friday (June 6), and will remain here until June 29. We’re here for conferences, mainly, as this week is WWDC08 in San Francisco, a conference for Apple Software Developers like my boyfriend, and the last week of my stay in this state is the (previously mentioned) American Library [...]

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ALA Annual Preparations

The last week of this month is the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Luckily, I’ll be in attendance for the first three of the five days the conference takes place (June 27-29).
In anticipation of the conference, I’ve compiled a list of programs that sound interesting to me.
Friday, June 27

9:30-11AM

Interviewing Strategies (ALA HRDR): interview strategies [...]

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