Library Ties

During Midwinter we did a major push to encourage folks to sign the petition for school libraries. Below are some video interviews that ALA President Molly Raphael and I made to help explain the importance of the petition. I want to thank Molly as well as the Division Presidents who made sure to spread the […]

I am a little late (should have done this last week!), but I did want to write a little bit about the ALA Annual conference in New Orleans. It was hot down there…the temperature most days was in the mid-90’s and it just would start raining at almost anytime. I kept busy with AASL Board […]

Here it is almost a week since I got home from San Diego and ALA Midwinter 2011 and I’m finally get a few free minutes to reflect back on the conference. When I got home, I quickly became engrossed in all the day-to-day things that need to get done as well as getting caught up […]

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 […]

While at the SLJ Summit in D.C., it was announced that Sara Kelly Johns, former AASL President and Library Media Specialist from Lake Placid, NY will be running for President of ALA. This is an exciting opportunity to place a school librarian at the helm of the largest professional organization for librarians. So, I encourage […]

DAY 2 Yesterday I kicked off the day with a run through the exhibit hall. We ran through about 1/3rd of the hall hitting various vendors and catching up with friends and colleagues. From there I headed to the AASL President’s Program. The program was kicked off by awarding the Spokane Mom’s the Crystal Apple […]

Bright and early I left Indianapolis (7:00am) and arrived in California around 10:00am. After getting settled in the hotel, I took a nice long nap. Working for C.L.A.S.S. this week on top of the early wake-up call this morning (4am) had just worn me out. ALA started for me with American Association of School Librarians’ […]