Well, the month of October has been a little busy on the traveling front. Besides the Great Lake Independent Booksellers Association Conference that I wrote about earlier this month, I’ve been a few other place.
My next trip was to Phoenix for an advisory board meeting for Capstone Digital. This was such an interesting board to be a part of because of the diverse group of individuals. We all come from different perspectives and backgrounds. It certainly made for great conversations. I left Phoenix and flew to New York and gave a full-day workshop for the School Library Systems of Genesee Valley, Monroe 1, Monroe 2-Orleans, and Wayne-Finger Lakes on school library leadership. It was a great day with a wonderful group of librarians.
The next adventure was up to Chicago for several meetings related to my position as President-Elect of the American Association of School Librarians. I along with the other 10 President-Elects of the 11 divisions of the American Library Association, spent a full day of training at ALA headquarters. A variety of good ideas were shared as well as training by the ALA lawyers and 2 hours of training on how to work with the media. It was a great time to meet the other President-Elects of the divisions as well as Molly Raphael, ALA President-Elect, and I look forward to working with them all. Then we had two days of meetings of the AASL Executive Committee. We did find a little time for some fun by going to Second City one night, too.
This weekend I’ve been in Hampton, VA for the Virginia Educational Media Association Conference. This is the first time I was invited to give a keynote speech and my topics was school library leadership. I have to admit I was a little nervous, but I think it went pretty well. Lots of great folks here in Virginia and I’ve enjoyed the chance to get to know them. I stayed for most of the conference, and enjoyed many sessions including the closing keynote from fellow Hoosier Anita Silvey who has just started a new blog. She has such great stories about children’s literature to share. Allison Zmuda was also here presenting, and enjoyed getting a chance to catch-up with her for a few minutes, too.
So, its been a lot of learning, a lot of meeting new friends and colleagues, and a lot of fun!
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Hooray on your VEMA keynote — and with Silvey and Zmuda, no less! Hope you get to catch up on sleep this week!