New Members Round Table President Linda Crook talks about her Midwinter, including attending and reading at the Martin Luther King Jr. Sunrise Celebration.

Nicole Pagowsky interviews Emerging Leader Erica Findley about how the EL experience is going so far and what project she’s working on. Erica was also at Midwinter as a correspondent photographer for the popular blog Librarian Wardrobe.

After getting home from the conference, I had posted on Facebook yesterday that for anyone else having conference withdrawal, #libchat was about to start on Twitter (libchat is a weekly, informal discussion on Wednesdays from 8–9:30pm EST for any librarian or info professional to participate in; people submit questions to the moderato

Today’s town meeting consisted of a brief introduction followed by three separate discussion groups that focused on different issues. To facilitate participation from those who were not able to come to Midwinter, we streamed audio from three of the discussion tables and used ALA Connect’s chat feature to solicit comments from and interact with the listeners. We got a lot of positive feedback on this, and it took one conference call, some member-owned equipment, and wifi to get it done.