Some ideas and concepts I gleaned from this year's MLA Conference were: Project Management - make even tedious internal projects such as inventory fun by adding small celebrations at the half-way point, handing out silly reqrd stickers, having a contest to guess how many items have been inventoried at certain points. Locked Box Challenges--I'd heard [...]
Enjoyed the conference. Well organized and stayed on schedule. Lunch on Thursday - not the best.
My favorite session was a surprise to me, the PLD meeting. Once they finished discussing business, the board members did a round robin discussion. In general, I'm not fond of round robins. Too often, I hear things that could be shared in a simple e-mail, or found on a Facebook page. In this case, I [...]
MLA 2017 Annual Conference: I always find it so important to attend library conferences, which gives me an opportunity to meet with other librarians in the state, connect with other librarians in similar sized communities/libraries, and learn what is going on in other areas of the state. I attended numerous sessions, and learned practical strategies [...]
I was so excited to attend my first MLA last week in Rochester, MN. I was so impressed with the quality of the sessions and the Mayo Civic Center. It is impossible to pick my favorite session, but I can narrow it down to two: Escape the Library: Creating and Hosting and 'Escape the Room' [...]
I attended the Minnesota Library Association Conference on October 5-6, 2017 in Rochester, MN. It was a very good conference. I enjoyed learning about library programs across the state and getting the chance to meet librarians from around the state. My favorite sessions were "Queering the Stacks," "Let's talk about serving patrons with dementia," "Summer [...]
I attended the MLA Annual Conference in Rochester this past week. There were many break out sessions to choose from and I enjoyed the ones I attended. The best one I went to was put on by the Children & Nature Network and was called "Planting the Seeds of Learning: The Library as a Nature [...]
I attended the 2017 MLA Conference in Rochester, MN on Oct 5-6. The theme of this year’s conference was “Radical Librarianship.” I work in Pioneerland’s technical services division and therefore I attended a good number of sessions geared toward technical services. I think it is assumed that technical librarianship has little room to push the [...]
MLA-Rochester was a great conference. I have highlighted a couple of my favorites. Would Trader Joe's Hire You? Lessons from the Best Retailers was quite refreshing. This session discussed the customer experience, from greeting everyone that walks in the door to going that extra mile for our customers. And of course, hiring the best employees [...]
I attended MLA in Rochester this past week. What a great conference! I enjoyed every session I attended. I especially enjoyed they one on Dementia. I think this is a big topic right now and really has moved to the for-front for libraries and looking for information. I talked with the presenters about how they [...]