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. [...]
Teen Summit / March 28 - Slayton / March 29 - Willmar
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 [...]
A co-worker and I attended the Elm Expo on Saturday, November 5 at the Mankato location. The sessions that I attended were EBSCO, ELM for Public Libraries and E-books MN. My co-worker attend ELM Basics and Learning Express Library. We gained some valuable information to make use of at our library. We were very glad [...]
The 2016 ARSL (Association for Rural and Small Libraries) was held in Fargo, ND this year. What a wonderful conference! This is my all-time favorite to attend. Lots of great information and the best is networking with other librarians experiencing the same thing you are. They understand exactly what you are dealing with and are [...]
I highly recommend attending the ARSL conference the next time it returns to the Midwest. LIbrarians from 40+ states spent 3 days learning from experts, including each other. I'm grateful to SAMMIE and our library Board for the opportunity! If anyone wants more info on any of these topics, I have a lot of notes! [...]
I had the fantastic opportunity to attend the 2016 ARSL [Association of Rural and Small Libraries] conference in Fargo, ND, with several of my colleagues. Next year the conference will be held in Utah; sadly, not nearly so accessible from SW Minnesota ...Slides and resources from the sessions will be available on the ARSL website [...]