Monthly Archives: April 2008

What I Learned at PLA 2008: Part 3 0

Okay, wrapping things up here (btw, these have not been in order of attendance): A few key points from the “Need to Lead” program sponsored by the Urban Libraries Council and its Executive Leadership Initiative: ELI is based on action learning – learning is most effective when involved in a real-tim, actual project learning how [...]

What I Learned at PLA 2008: Part 2 0

More notes lessons, inspiration, ideas, questions from PLA 2008… From George and Joan‘s presentation, “It Ain’t Necessarily So: Challenging the Assumptions of Legacy Librarianship” librarians have never been the first or second choice to get information how does the library add value to an open information economy? enhanced discoverability – engines, not opacs, crawl-able databases, [...]