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New Members Round Table President Linda Crook talks about her Midwinter, including attending and reading at the Martin Luther King Jr. Sunrise Celebration.
At the Newbie and Veteran Librarian Tweet-up, Sarah Dahlen talks about her Midwinter work, including sessions with Reforma and the Stonewall Book Awards.
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...
In this video, Members Andromeda Yelton and Shana McDanold talk about how the Code Year discussion progressed and about the Interest Group they are forming through LITA - they were able to...
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...
If you missed the fair-use panel presented by the ALA Washington Office at Midwinter, you may want to check out ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy and get access to policy briefs,...
Check out the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards YouTube channel for video reactions to this year's awards. Plenty of author videos to watch. Don't miss Mo Willems on "I Broke My Trunk"...
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...
Booklovers ended yet another Midwinter Meeting Monday afternoon sipping tea and dining on finger sandwiches while listening to a group of authors tell stories and read from their works before...
In a session that ended nearly two hours early Tuesday, Council III took action on measures that covered such issues as the refusal of some publishers to sell ebooks to libraries and the...
ALA Council approved programmatic priorities in line with the ALA Ahead to 2015 strategic plan and as a guide to the preparation of the fiscal year 2013 budget, as presented by Treasurer Jim Neal (...
With a voice that echoed the melodious tone in sermons and speeches delivered by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin, an ordained minister, addressed the theme...
Monday was the #CodeYear meetup at Midwinter, where we talked about the new LITA Interest Group (IG) that’s in the process of being formed (the petition went around to be signed), good and bad...
“We live in serious times,” Richard C. Harwood, president and founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, told the audience at the start of his presentation at the ALA...
