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No more blog updates

Due to the recent changes at Ning, we no longer will be posting blog updates. FREE access via email or RSS subscription remains via our website, http://www.privatelibrary.typepad.com , and you now also can subscribe to our daily posts via your Kindle by clicking on http://tinyurl.com/ygbt7cw Continue

Added by L. D. Mitchell on November 17, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Come join us on ALA Connect!

Hi, Everyone -- ALA has its own official collaborative work/professional networking site now! Come join us over on ALA Connect at http://connect.ala.org . Non-members are welcome, too. We're moving conversations from Ning over there - hope to see you join in. Jenny Levine ALA staff Find me on Connect @ http://connect.ala.org/user/65016 Continue

Added by Jenny Levine on April 9, 2009 at 8:48pm — No Comments

Twitter

I'm Twittering! Follow: http://www.twitter.com/srharris19 Continue

Added by Steven Harris on February 5, 2009 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Introduction

Just wanted to post on my blog and say hello to everyone on the ALA Ning group. I'm a new youth services librarian in small town Virginia, gearing up for summer. My crusade right now is gaming in the library, so I am going back and forth with my advisory board about the Wii, trying to convince them that this is a great way to get the teens in. Wish me luck! Continue

Added by Jess on May 19, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

A New Blog

I'm starting a blog. Hmmm. What to communicate about? I'll start with travel books. Paul Theroux and Polly Evans have written enjoyable, interesting travel books. Continue

Added by Eileen Hardy on April 17, 2008 at 10:19am — No Comments

Usability testing

Anyone have a sample RFP for usability testing that they would be willing to share? Continue

Added by Susan Fisher on April 14, 2008 at 10:56am — No Comments

not much going on here...

I haven't found that I spend much time on Jing, but I do blog actively over at infomational.
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Added by char booth on October 25, 2007 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Florida Media Specialists

I'm taking the FL Teacher Certification Exam for Ed Media Specialist in 7 days! As the lucky 13th of October approaches, I'm freaking big time! Help! Has anyone in the state taken the test recently and can share some words of encouragement?? Is there anyone near Orlando who's looking at that date and is available to study with me??

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Added by Good Day on October 6, 2007 at 9:46am — No Comments

Happy birthday ALA!

ALA turns 131-years-old on Saturday, October 6 (and doesn't look a day over 60)! What would you give ALA as a present, if you could?

Feel free to be creative! Continue

Added by Valerie Hawkins on October 5, 2007 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Do American libraries have to remove "Alms for Jihad?"

From ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF): Can They Do That?

"Unless there is an order from a U.S. court, the British settlement is unenforceable in the United States, and libraries are under no legal obligation to return or destroy the book. Libraries are considered to hold title to the individual copy or copies, and it is the library

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Added by Jenny Levine on August 15, 2007 at 1:29pm — No Comments

Help Us Help You Collaborate Online

We've posted an online survey requesting feedback about our Online Communities service, as well as other collaborative software you've used inside and outside of ALA. We're hoping to use this feedback to evaluate the current OC product in order to decide if we should continue forward with it, start with something new, or find a mix of products. Or do something else we haven't thought of yet. Basically, we want to know what you need so we can help deli

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Added by theshiftedlibrarian on August 8, 2007 at 12:52pm — 2 Comments

New Osceola Library System Website

The redesign for the Osceola Library System is now up and running. Please feel free to take a look and see what you think.

http://www.osceolalibrary.org/ Continue

Added by Kelley Minars on August 1, 2007 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Librarians are cool--again?

According to a recent article in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/08librarian.html, a hipper crowd of shushers now reign where "bespectacled women with a love of classic books" once did. Wow! I love these articles because they make me feel somehow cooler than I am as I approach 50. The writer even extols hip, young librarians for their thrift store clothes. Wait a minute. I thought that’s why l… Continue

Added by Crystal Hammon on July 11, 2007 at 8:37pm — 1 Comment

Become an Emerging Leader

You can now apply online to participate in ALA's 2008 Emerging Leaders program, an initiative aimed at younger librarians who want to get involved with ALA and learn skills that will help them become leaders within the Association, our profession, and their own organizations.

Up to 120 participants (60 sponsored and 60 open)

ALA member, and
Young (under 35 years) or new librarians of any age with fewer than 5 ye

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Added by Jenny Levine on July 6, 2007 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Presentations from Annual 2007

We've started collecting links to Handouts, Podcasts, and other Post Conference Information given to us, provided by, or posted online given by speakers at the Annual 2007 conference. This will be a permanent archive to the content.

It will take a little while for this to fill in, and by all means, please help with this task if you know of something available that's not… Continue

Added by Jenny Levine on July 5, 2007 at 12:59pm — 2 Comments

Yahoo Avatars READ!

As recently noted by the Librarian in Black, ALA's Graphics staff is working with Yahoo to provide "READ" t-shirts for Yahoo avatars. LiB provides instructions for how to create an avatar and clothe it in one of these shirts, and you can then use the image anywhere you want (Ning, Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

I didn't know we were working with Yahoo on… Continue

Added by Jenny Levine on July 2, 2007 at 4:15pm — 2 Comments

RA resources for those of us who are no longer "cool young librarians"--but still wanna be!

Every time I attend an ALA conference, there's always at least one "blow my wig off" experience--one that makes me think, "Girl, you've got to overcome your introverted ways and get OUT there more, because there's LOTS going on that you don't have a clue about. If you're of the same ilk--an introvert who carefully manages stimulation from the outside world because you are so easily overwhelmed--you understand what I'm talking about.

Here's the session that rearranged a few molecules f… Continue

Added by Crystal Hammon on June 30, 2007 at 8:39am — No Comments

ALA Videos

I just discovered that it is impossible to add the videos that are on the ALA websites to Ning. None of them are posted to Google or to You Tube. Come on, ALA! Loosen up and make them available to the world!
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Added by Bill Drew on June 28, 2007 at 1:38pm — 5 Comments

ALA Council Wiki...with Content!

Heidi Dolamore has led the charge to create a wiki for Council, a task that at times seemed herculean. But her hard work (along with that of many others) is now visibly paying off as Annual 2007 ends. Check out the ALA Council Wiki to… Continue

Added by Jenny Levine on June 28, 2007 at 10:20am — No Comments

Back from D.C.

Well, okay, I wasn't that far away, but I am back. It was a great conference, as usual. We finished up our Emerging Leaders project with a poster session and a reception at the President's Suite. Woo-eee, fancy schmancy up there on the balcony overlooking the city.

More to come...
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Added by Cynthia Bischoff on June 27, 2007 at 5:27pm — No Comments