My first conference presentation

So I’ve survived my very first professional conference presentation. I think it went well. When I occassionally looked out into the audience while I was speaking, I saw heads nodding and faces smiling. Good sign.
It was a bit surreal listening to the translator speaking into the microphone at the side of the room while I [...]

Preparing for catastrophes at PLA 2008

When I’m at library conferences, I tend to seek out everything that is related to international librarianship and disaster recovery and prep.  This afternoon, I’ll be attending a session at PLA 2008 about Catastrophe Readiness and Response: Proactive Roles for Public Libraries (see session 220) which should be interesting.  I have to say, however, that [...]

Emerging Leaders ‘08, World Cafe

Members from last year’s Emerging Leaders ‘07 Cohort and EL ‘o8 met together today to discuss how ALA can engage young and new librarians into the American Library Association (ALA). The format of the discussion was the World Cafe facilitation model, which I found to be highly engaging. The key is to ask [...]

Emerging Leaders ‘08

I attended the full day workshop for the Emerging Leaders ‘08 yesterday and left feeling energized and ready to get more involved with ALA.  So I guess it’s working!
The presentation from Maureen Sullivan was great, though I wish there had been more role-playing and active training in the concepts she was talking about.  And I [...]

REFORMA National Conference III in El Paso, TX

I attended an RNC III Conference Planning meeting last night and am really excited about the long awaited 3rd national REFORMA conference.  I’ve never been to El Paso, but I think it’s proximity to the Mexican border will be a wonderful opportunity for librarians and people in interested in libraries and books from Mexico and [...]

ALA Midwinter Philadelphia

I will be attending ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia as part of the Emerging Leader ‘08 cohort. I will be trying to attend as many IRRT and REFORMA events as possible, but am afraid that I won’t have time for too many. Stay tuned for my posts of the event.