Thank you so much for providing funding to attend the Minnesota Library Association Conference in Rochester October 5 and 6, 2017. Below are the sessions I attended that resonated with me and the work we are currently doing at the Marshall Lyon County Library. Minnesota Public Library Structures – Simplified While I already knew much [...]
Shetek Lutheran Ministries Retreat Center was a beautiful place to hold a retreat. I had a FABULOUS time attending sessions, networking with colleagues, and just enjoying the beautiful location. We had a couple of very informative sessions from Valerie Horton, Director of Minitex who informed us of all the innovative "pilot" projects going on at [...]
The retreat delivered everything they promised - a comfortable setting, challenging information and time for collaboration with colleagues. I especially appreciated the presentations by Valerie Horton that addressed trends and changes in library services. It was empowering and motivating and I feel more confident about taking risks and making mistakes. I also was pleased to [...]
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 [...]