Category Archives: announcements

Lauren for ALA Council

Many of you know that I am a supporter of ALA. Since first getting involved, I have found it to be a rewarding experience and have met many inspirational colleagues through the organization. I’ve also seen that there are things that need to change to align the organization with the expectations of people today. As [...]

Looking forward to the TechSet!

Hi everyone! I’m excited to let you know that my book, Wikis for Libraries is due out next month! It’s part of a great collection of books, The Tech Set, edited by Ellyssa Kroski and published by Neal-Schuman (as a joint project with LITA).
This book is for those who have been thinking about implementing a [...]

My First ALA Learning Post!

I’m very excited to have joined the gang over at ALA Learning, and today was my first post! We’re starting the new year with getting to know you posts, so that’s what I have over there. Here’s a little of what you will find:
What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?

I’ll teach pretty [...]

Top Tech Trends…

Hey y’all…  looks like it’s public now…  I’m going to be on the LITA Top Tech Trends panel at ALA Midwinter 2010! I am super excited about the conversation and the other folks on the panel.  It should be a lot of fun for all involved. As always, there will be ways to participate from [...]

Movers & Shakers 2009

The past few days have been a whirlwind. At ACRL I was able to  attend some great talks, meet some facinating people, and help with a few presentations myself. I had hoped to get a lot of my own work done in the evenings or between sessions, but found the conference itself was engaging enough [...]