On Thursday and Friday, April 14 and 15, 2016, Plum Creek Library staff met at Shalom Hill Farm for a staff retreat. I attended the Friday sessions and had a wonderful experience. I got to put faces with the PCLS libraries and staff that I had not met before. I feel that I learned, and/or [...]
Spotlight on Books is a small conference that gives great benefits. The format provides opportunity for national authors and illustrators to give presentations, Minnesota authors to highlight their work and librarians to share information about their own libraries and resources. There are books to review and purchase and there is time to meet librarians and [...]
I attended Spotlight on Books on April 8th & 9th, 2016, in Walker, MN. Spotlight on Books is northern Minnesota's best kept secret! I highly recommend that everyone attend this wonderful author event. You will be able to hear and interact with many, many authors that will educate and inspire you. The main authors we [...]
I recently attended the conference Spotlight on Books 2016 in Walker, MN. This was my first time attending this conference. It was a great opportunity to meet several authors and illustrators, including Carrie Ehlert Newman, Eric Rohmann, Candace Fleming, Anton Treuer, Consie Powell, Peter Schultz, Aime'e Bissonette, Linda LaGarde Grover, Rebecca Hahn, and Cheryl Minnema. [...]
The SAMMIE Summer Reading program on April 1, 2016 was really helpful and definitely gave me the chance to try new things! We played three different board games, which was nice because it gave me the chance to try the games before buying them. Two of them were pretty difficult to play (but I'm sure [...]
This year’s Teen Summit was a fun event. It started with Lunch, which was pizza, cookies and carrot cake. Lunch was followed by a presentation about teen non-fiction. Some of the books that where highlighted are; Fatal Fever: Tracking down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow, The case of the Vanishing little brown bats: a Scientific [...]
Attending the LibTech Conference 2016 was a fantastic opportunity. The amount of information was both exciting and staggering. I loved seeing the ways in which librarians are using technology and helping give access to technology to their patrons. Coding Clubs for Kids are a great opportunity to give children an understanding of an important process [...]
The 2016 LibTech Conference was another exceptional experience that I feel very fortunate to be able to attend. Thank YOU SAMMIE for continuing to make conferences, workshops, and training opportunities available to all of us through your scholarships. The Keynote speakers were excellent this year. Keynote speaker Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD, challenged all of us [...]
Thank you to SAMMIE for the scholarship to attend the Library Technology Conference at Macalester College. In addition to being able to present about digital archives with colleagues from MSU, Mankato, Winona State University, and PALS, I had the opportunity to attend six other sessions. Here's one snippet from each session: 1) My first session [...]
It's hard to imagine that a workshop could get any better than this! How about that for a first line in a report? One of the many items discussed in this workshop was "First Lines and Openers" - and we got some great ones. In fact, it was an entire day of discussing, learning about, [...]