Archive for 'Conference Blogging'
No Hand Sanitizer Found At ALA Exhibits
In advance of the American Library Association Midwinter Conference I reported that (scroll to the fourth item) 2009 was the year of hand sanitizer, and that little bottles of the stuff had surpassed pens as the number one giveaway item at professional conferences and trade shows.
So quite naturally I was curious to find out [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 25th, 2010 under Conference Blogging.
Comments: 6
One Search Box to Rule Them All
This guest post by Amy Fry, Electronic Resources Coordinator at Bowling Green State University’s Jerome Library, is a timely reflection on Midwinter and on current events that have us all wondering how to strike a balance between convenient access and dependence on a few powerful vendors.
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Discovery services, as you can imagine, were a big topic [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 22nd, 2010 under Conference Blogging, Technology Issues.
Comments: 1
A Visit To The ACRL Booth
It’s always fun to stop by the ACRL booth at ALA Conferences to see who’s hanging out and who’s actually staffing the booth. Here’s what the booth is looking like these days:
The folks staffing the booth when I stopped by were Kathy Parsons (far left) of Iowa State University (who I had the pleasure of [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 20th, 2010 under Conference Blogging.
Comments: 2
9 Out Of 10 Academic Librarians Surveyed Liked The Seattle Conference
Did you have the opportunity to attend both the 2007 Baltimore ACRL conference and the 2009 Seattle ACRL conference? If so, which did you like better? I did get to both and I really wouldn’t compare the two. I think each conference needs to stand on its own. You have different cities, a different crowd, [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 1st, 2009 under Conference Blogging.
Comments: 3
Tapping Your Inner Entrepreneur
Are you a Librarian Entrepreneur? You might be. Would you answer “yes” to these questions:
I am an opportunist.
I am a creative genius (or part of a creative work team)
I am persistent
I am customer focused
I connect the dots
I am passionate
I am a risk taker
According to my research in preparation for a talk at Inspiration, Innovation, Celebration: [...]
Posted by StevenB on June 24th, 2009 under Conference Blogging, Innovation, Uncategorized.
Comments: 7