Started Friday with a great session on being a good boss. Here are my notes: Be a Good Boss Cathy Hakala-Ausperk from Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library Kimberly Bolan Cullin from Kimberly Bolan & Associates Presentation slides you’ll never be a truly great library director unless you know how to fix a toilet educate yourself [...]
Categories: Conferences,Libraries,Professional Development
Tagged: management, supervision
Wifi was not working for me so I ended up being a “have-not” at this morning’s Top Tech Trends program. So I typed up notes and here they are! Apologies if I got anything wrong, but there were a lot of ideas being thrown around! Thanks to everyone on the panel. Michael Porter libraries need [...]
Categories: Conferences,Libraries,Technology
Tagged: "top tech trends", lita, pla10, pla10ttt
Natalie Merchant performed at the PLA 2010 conference this afternoon and, while she mostly performed songs from her upcoming album, she ended her session with an encore performance of “Kind and Generous.” Before she began the song, she talked about the importance of the local public library during her childhood and she dedicated the song [...]
Categories: Conferences,Libraries,Music
Tagged: kind and generous, natalie merchant, pla10
Yesterday, I flew into Portland for day 1 of the 2010 PLA National Conference. This is my third time attending PLA and I’m especially excited about this one because I served on the programming committee. I hope the people who attend the conference go back to their libraries full of ideas, inspiration, and excitement about [...]
Categories: Conferences,Libraries
One of the best things about attending conferences is meeting others and being inspired by their work. This happened for me today in a big way when I visited the temporary storefront library in Boston’s Chinatown, which has not had a permanent branch library since 1956! A group of us from APALA received a great tour from [...]
Categories: Conferences,Libraries
Tagged: alamw10, boston, chinatown, storefront library
