I took two courses during spring semester at St. Cloud State University. One course was Reading Guidance for Young Adults (Information Media 625). This course focused on reading for the young adult student. Many books were read and discussed in class. I decided to get a number of these books for KMS' High School media [...]
I am a member of the MILE Cohort 2019. This four day institute brings together librarians and other library staff from across fields (public, academic, and school) and across the state and helps enable them to be the next generation of library leaders. The session that shines the brightest for me occurred on the third [...]
Thanks to Prairielands for providing funds supporting my trip to the national ACRL conference in Cleveland, OH. I attended a dozen sessions plus two keynote speakers. One session I'll highlight was entitled "Working at the Intersections of Information Literacy & Scholarly Communication." This panel gave me lots to think about regarding students as content creators [...]
I attended the 2019 ACRL conference in Cleveland (April 10-13). The first session I attended had a panel of three librarians who have implemented "escape rooms" as a way to introduce FYE classes to the library's physical space. Attending this class with my colleague Pam was fortunate, as we had many conversations over the next [...]
Thank you for the opportunity to attend LibTech at Macalester College on March 20-21, 2019. I went to several useful workshops, but two I thought stood out were Taking LibGuides to the Next Level and Digging Deeper Into Google Extensions. Taking LibGuides focused on small tweaks we can make to our LibGuides and websites like [...]
I attended the LibTech conference at Macalester College. The first session I went to -- "You've Got Mail: Tales of Form-Based Readers' Advisory" -- was put on by librarians from the University of Minnesota, but I can definitely see how such a program would appeal to public libraries. These librarians are essentially book matchmakers; patrons [...]
I recently heard another person who attended this conference say, "I found 'My People' there." This was my first time to attend and that was absolutely my experience, as well. There were a wealth of sessions on pedagogy and technology in higher education. Some of the sessions I went to: virtual reality, adaptive learning, student [...]
I have completed the e-course "Genealogical Research For Librarians" offered online through the American Library Association. This course was presented over four weeks by June Powers, a librarian from North Carolina. She recommended several book titles as recommended resources and then each week had a video presentation and additional readings for us to do, as [...]
I appreciate having the ability to go to MLA in St. Cloud. I was fortunate to present a program (Geek Squad by Default) that was well attended, as well as being able to pick up new ideas to bring back to my library. Working in a small rural library, it's good to get ideas from [...]
This was my first time attending a Minnesota Library Association Conference. The sessions I attended mostly focused on youth programming and collection development. One of my favorite sessions was Out-of-the-Box Book Clubs. One of the presenters runs a book club where everyone reads a book based on a theme, rather than reading the same book. [...]