This was my first time attending the LibTech Conference at Macalester College in St. Paul. The two keynote speakers presented topics that many of us don’t even realize or think about. Sarah T. Roberts discussed the many issues associated with Social Media and Bergis Jules shared the ethics of collection, use, and access to web [...]
2018 LibTech Conference was great. Our keynote speakers Sarah T. Roberts and Bergis Jules both really made me think about social media posting and the implications of each post, tweet, video upload, and more. The idea of commercial content moderation or CCM, a term Professor Roberts coined to define the field study around the large-scale, [...]
Another great year at LibTech! Both keynote speakers were excellent this year and made me think about topics in new ways. The first session I attended was led by Honna Veerkamp (St. Louis Public Library), who talked about ways to strengthen community partnerships. Honna has a very unique job (she's a Creative Experience Specialist) and [...]
For me, the Retreat was worthwhile for two reasons: 1. To hear Valerie Horton from Minetex speak. Not only was the topic valuable, but it was good to have her exposed to our situation, especially given that it was a small group and we got to chat more than a typical presentation like that usually [...]
SAMMIE gave me the opportunity to attend the 2017 Fall SRP Resource Fair in St. Cloud. There were 3 different sessions. The first one was for early childhood (birth-age 3), 2nd presentation was for school-age/tweens, and the final presentation was on teens/adult programming. Each section covered displays, passive and active programs, as well as hints [...]
I was delighted to be able to attend the "What's New in Young Adult Books" workshop in Sioux Falls, SD, as last year I was "blizzard-ed out" on the day of the workshop. The presenter was a 20 year veteran Teacher/Librarian, having experiences throughout the Middle School and High School grade levels. There were all [...]
Thank you for the opportunity of attending the SRP Resource Fair in Saint Cloud. The knowledge and resources shared have given me ideas to start planning for our SRP in Slayton as well as sharing with others in the Plum Creek network. The staff in Saint Cloud put together a nice presentation offering ideas and [...]
This year the annual MLA conference gave me a big boost to try some new ideas and programming at my libraries. Something that I cannot wait to try will be what I learned from session "Locking in Literacy: Using Breakout Boxes for Library programming". Breakout boxes are going to be a big hit in our [...]
The Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference provides the opportunities for me to connect with other public librarians around the state. More important are the sessions giving a variety of topics and presenters. I chose sessions which would provide information, resources and challenges to continue to provide the Glencoe Public Library with new or improved programs [...]
It's always good to know that your hard-earned life lessons are best practices and the things you suspected are true. Valerie Horton from Minitex reinforced the former; library services are changing as time goes by and it's important to react and adjust on the fly. I remember, many years ago, as a young librarian that [...]