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Thoughts on Being an ALA Emerging Leader

Thoughts on Being an ALA Emerging Leader

It was an interesting ride, being an ALA Emerging Leader in the Class of 2009. The upshot: I got to work with a great group of people, create some cool videos, and met a lot of really interesting librarians. The downside (downshot?): I’m not really any more interested in getting active in ALA committees than I was beforehand (and that, I think, is really the point of the whole thing). That said, I recommend the program to other emerging librarians…

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Notes from the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Notes from the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

Thanks to the Friends of the Washington State Library and the Washington Library Association, I was the lone staff-person at the Washington State Library who got to sneak off to Chicago last week for the American Library Association Annual conference. Attendance was pretty good at the event (I think even more than last year), but I imagine these were mostly east-coast attendees and less folks from Washington State.  As such, I thought I would share my notes (pardon their lack…

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