Hope for ALA pt 1/3: ALA/LITA Elections
Hope for ALA pt 2/3: Why I Love ALA Connect
After attending ACRL (for the first time), I think there’s something to talk about there, too.
ACRL was a cosponsor of the first virtual conference I ever attended. That was three years ago, and it seems like every year since then, [...]
The last official program I participated in on Saturday was my panel, Mapping Your Path to the Mountaintop. Steven Bell organized the session, and he, John Shank, Brian Mathews, and I were on the panel. The session was about strategic career planning, but early on Steven was wise to begin discussion about how to make [...]
Kate McCready and Cecily Marcus of University of Minnesota
I got here a bit late after the focus group, and it was just a half an hour, so here are my notes:
Humanities social sciences: about resources used
Scientists about who they worked with
Looking for efficient ways to deal with online materials
If you’re going to do something someone else [...]
Next up this morning was participation in the ACRL Focus Group for people under 35. It was a really good talk, several people in the room said it was the best thing they had attended at the conference. Some of the themes that emerged:
Under 35 people chose to enter this field while the field was [...]
This morning I co-hosted a roundtable with Lauren Ray of the University of Washington. I had no idea what to expect of a roundtable, but it turned out well! Roundtables are held twice at ACRL in a very large room. The room is packed with tables, and each topic gets one. Our table’s discussion focused [...]
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