Library Ties

Over the last 30 days, there have been lots of blogs posts, tweets, LM_net postings, etc. over the petition on the White House website started by California librarian Seanean Shanahan. There was a considerable amount of effort put forth by many in our field to get to the need 25,000 signatures. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. […]

This trip was not on my official list of states to visit this year, but as I am a native Hoosier, I had to attend my own state conference. The Association for Indiana School Library Educators is an association of the Indiana Library Federation. It is much like the structure AASL has to ALA. Most […]

After a few days at home after AASL, it was time to take off again and I headed to Lansing, MI for the 38th Michigan Association of Media Educators’ conference. Michigan is in the same AASL Region as Indiana, so going to their conference was so wonderful! There were many folks who were President of […]

  WOW! I could probably sum up my feelings of AASL’s 15th National Conference and Exhibition conference with just one word. But, as my English teachers in high school reminded me often, short and succinct were not always my strong suit. I’ll have to say it was such an honor and a thrill to be […]

I’m a little behind in sharing some of these adventures, so working on playing catch-up today. I had the pleasure of visiting the Connecticut Association of School Librarians in Hartford, CT on Monday, October 24th. They held a one day conference in collaboration with the Connecticut Educators Computer Association. This was a whirlwind visit, as […]