Monthly Archives: January 2007

Da BEARS! 2

The Bears are going to the Super Bowl! “Super Bowl Shuffle” anyone?

ALA Midwinter 2007 – Tech in public libraries and hanging with APALA 0

After the OCLC event ended, I attended an open meeting for the PLA Technology Committee. I’m not a member yet, but they were very nice in allowing me to sit in and participate. The chair is Bill Ptacek, director of the King County Library, and there were about 10 others present. They covered a lot [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007 – social networking – best practices for libraries 0

After breakfast, I went over to the OCLC-sponsored event, “Social Networking–Best Practices for Libraries. The speaker panel included Jenny Levine and David Lee King, the authors of two blogs I’ve been visiting for awhile now. It also included Lisa Janicke-Hinchliffe from the U of Illinois. FYI, Jenny Levine has also blogged her notes from this [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007 – no iPod for me 0

I got an early start today with a 7am breakfast given by H.W. Wilson. I appreciate the free breakfast, but I wish it didn’t have to require me to get up before sunrise! H.W. Wilson gave a short 15 minute presentation on some of their new products for 2007, but let’s face it, most of [...]

ALA Midwinter 2007 – Friday recap 0

Well, it’s Friday night and I’m back at my hotel to relax before heading out to a reception/dinner. I basically spent the entire day at the Seattle Public Library for the Emerging Leaders activities. This morning I got up early and went to the convention center to pick up my badge holder, program guides, and [...]