Posted in conference, tagged ALA, ALA Annual Conference 2008, Brandon Sanderson, children's services, copyright, Cory Doctorow, Eric Flint, intellectual property, marketing, metadata, Vernor Vinge on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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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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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Posted in conference, professional development, tagged ACRL, ALA, ALA Annual Conference 2007, children's services, conference, graphic novels, intellectual freedom, iSchool, libraries, Office of Intellectual Freedom, PLA, professional development, service, Syracuse University, YALSA, young adults services on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My experience at last year’s ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, was guided by the 2 credit course I took with Scott Nicholson, IST 600: Leadership and Organizations. Scott gave us some tips and required us to meet with a leader in the field at the conference. I met with Sari Feldman, Executive Director of [...]
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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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