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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.

One of the quickly organized conversations at Midwinter this year was the Code Year Meetup, which took place Monday morning in the Networking Uncommons.

Even though the romance genre has a popular focus, the four authors in the “From Sweet to Sexy: What’s Happening in Contemporary Romance” panel asserted that it can still have life-changing value.

Many librarians love to use open-source software, but are reluctant to contribute their code back to the community. At LITA’s Drupal4Lib Interest Group discussion, Chair Nina McHale presented the results of a survey of librarians that tried to find out why.

In the well-attended “Do I Own These Ebooks or Not?” session, Kansas State Librarian Jo Budler spoke to the ALA Washington Office’s Carrie Russell about her experiences when the Kansas Digital Library Consortium’s ebook contract was up for renewal, and the vendor proposed a 700% cost increase, and more importantly, would have eliminated the consortium’s ownership o

Check out this collection of three short interviews with Emerging Leaders Jovanni Lota, John Jackson, and Yuan Li. They share their thoughts on their bright futures.

Jennifer Martin, senior associate provost and dean of the Graduate School at Texas Woman’s University, offered her perspective as a non-librarian advocate for the university’s library at the Advocacy Institute Workshop. “I see libraries making a difference in the development of human capital, and I think we need to think about it in that way,” she declared.

Two pieces of information regarding American Libraries’ annual Library Design Showcase.

American Libraries is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Library Design Showcase, our annual feature celebrating the best new and newly renovated or expanded libraries of all types.