Prairielands

Thanks to SAMMIE for funding to support my trip to Baltimore, MD, for the Association of College & Research Libraries national conference. I attended a variety of learning experiences including panel presentations, conference paper presentations, roundtables, keynote speakers, and poster presentations. I was also able to attend a pre-conference session focusing on Universal Design for [...]

The 2017 LibTech Conference at Macalester University in St. Paul, MN was FABULOUS! I find myself thinking about the various sessions days perhaps weeks afterwards. I think about what I see and listen to and I think about how I can incorporate some of the various ideas and programs into our library. Makerspace Mornings in [...]

This was the first time I attended the Libtech conference. I totally enjoyed it. I was on the waiting list and was later contacted that my name had come up to attend. Great information to bring back to my library. Opening speakers were great, especially the second day! It was amazing to see how work [...]

I was excited to attend this conference because I received a scholarship from the folks at LibTech that covered the cost of registration. I haven't attended this conference before, but it's VERY popular and usually fills on the first day that registration opens. I attended a lot of interesting sessions that really got me thinking. [...]

What a treat to attend the Association of Rural & Small Libraries annual conference in our neck of the woods! Love my How FAR Can You Go? 'North of Normal' cloth tote bag. The ear flap hat design is very clever! I guess the 'North of Normal' moniker is an official City of Fargo marketing [...]

TIES was full of rich learning opportunities. You can see snippets at #TIES2016. Monday morning's keynote by Dean Shareski focused on "Whatever Happened to Joy?" View his TED talk: https://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Whatever-Happened-to-Joy-in-EduIn addition on Monday, I attended several breakout sessions. One session was on coding taught by Mrs. Kalthoff from St. Cloud. She has both plugged and [...]

I attended the Summer Reading Resource Fair @ the St. Cloud Public Library on Friday, December 9. It was a nice "kick-off" to the upcoming 2017 summer library program. It helped get me excited and motivated to begin plans for next summer's program. St. Cloud Public Library staff did a nice job of hosting this [...]