I was able to attend the Fall SRP 2019 Resource Fair on Friday, Nov. 2 in St. Cloud at the Great River Regional Library. The Resource Fair is where I learn new ideas that go with the 2019 Summer theme: Showtime at Your Library. The St. Cloud librarians do a fantastic job with setting up [...]
Thank you so much for providing funding to attend the Minnesota Library Association Conference in St. Cloud October 11 and 12, 2018. Below are the sessions I attended that resonated with me and the work we are currently doing at the Marshall Lyon County Library. Why Not Library and Information Science? Exploring Undergraduate Awareness I [...]
Thanks to Prairieland's visionary scholarship program, I was able to attend the Fall ITEM conference in Alexandria, MN on October 26. It had been several years since I had the opportunity to attend and it was important to network with other school library staff across MN. Over breakfast, I spoke with the head of Minneapolis [...]
The 2018 MLA Conference had many selections of sessions to attend. I always wanted to leave the annual conference with ideas to plan and execute at the Glencoe Library. I attended the LSTA Grant with the discussion held on Pre-School STEM mini-grants. The presenters had outlines, written objectives on hand, example and plans for the [...]
I attended MLA in St. Cloud, MN on Oct. 11-12, 2018. There were a couple of sessions that really stood out to me and will be implemented into my libraries. Little Coders: Infectious (The Good Kind) had some ideas for preschoolers and why coding is important for them in today’s world. I already do fun [...]
The Minnesota Library Associations Annual Conference in St. Cloud was an excellent opportunity to catch up with colleagues. I am very thankful to Prairielands Library Exchange for the opportunity to attend. Below are some of the sessions that I attended. The Web is Lovely, Dark, and Deep was an eye opener of a session. Giving [...]
One of my favorite things about the MN Library Assoc. (MLA) conference is the opportunity to hear what other libraries are doing around the state and to bring those ideas back home and tweak them to fit our community and library spaces. This year I learned about: - the old Viking craft of lucet, which [...]
This year's MLA Conference was really fun and helped expose me to new programming ideas and resources, as well as some fantastic customer service suggestions and strategies. I attended both days, and I particularly enjoyed the session called "Teens are Human (and so can you)" which was run by staff at the St. Paul Public [...]
The MN Library Association was great again this year. Thank you Prairielands for the Scholarship to attend. The first session I went to was "Little Coders: Infectious (The Good Kind) Activities for Preschoolers". I was particularly interested in this session as I had just purchased some coding books for preschool through 2nd grade. They showed [...]
MLA 2018 was held in St Cloud , Minnesota and again it was a very good conference. I think the best session for me was Teenagers are Human and You Can Too! I learned a lot of ideas on how to communicate and handle teenagers, which I hope to do daily in our library. I [...]