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The Impact and Benefits of Learning 2.0 Programs in Public Libraries Michael Stephens PLA Learning 2.0 Presentation View more presentations from Michael Stephens. MS’s presentation about the research gathered for his CAVAL 2009 Fellowship. Setting the stage: Things are changing quickly… social media/tools are increasing and people are using them at an astounding rate… Those [...]
Oh I wish I said that: Dealing with Difficult People Gail Johnson & Pam Parr Link to the presentation (pdf). [LB note: wonderful presentation - great presenters! Very entertaining!] Five Questions: 1. Who are these People? 2. what’s it really about? 3. what do they want? 4. What do you Want 5. What do you [...]
Tomorrow I wake up bright and early to attend the annual Public Library Association’s annual conference in Portland! I’m looking forward to attending this year! Some sessions of interest: – Top Ten Tech Trends – The Impact and Benefits of Learning 2.0 Programs in Public Libraries – Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library [...]
I participated in the Online Northwest conference this year. It was a nice opportunity for professional development and it took place right on the OSU campus. I attended several sessions, but the one I enjoyed most was Jen Klaudinyi’s presentation on the Cooperative Library Instruction Project (CLIP): Collaboration and Curriculum Integration: Presenting shared information literacy [...]
I could not attend ALA, but I followed along via the tweets about the conference (#ala09, #ala2009), tweets about sub-meetings and presentations (i.e., #toptech, #unala2009, #acrl101, etc.), and watched ustream videos and cover-it-live events (i.e., lita’s top tech trends). I even heard about ALA on NPR (Librarians go wild for Gold Book Cart). But just [...]

