A Wandering Eyre

Five Weeks to a Social Library officially starts next week. We have preliminary meetings with our groups this week, to make sure everything is kosher and shiny. Today, I realized that we had forgot to mention the concept of “open conversation” and thus posted this to our blog space. The last time I was involved [...]

It was heart-wrenching, but we finally narrowed the field down to forty souls. They are a very interesting bunch, all over the map, lots of different kinds of libraries. They are eager as well; some of them have started posting their initial thoughts. It was such an awesome pool, I hope those not chosen choose [...]

At the moment, most of my free time is going towards reading through the 110 applications Five Weeks to a Social Library has received for the 40 slots available in the course. Some of the stories are simply heartbreaking. It makes me very thankful for the travel funding I receive at MPOW. We have been [...]

The deadline to apply to be a participant in the Five Weeks to a Social Library program is tomorrow, December 1st. You will find the application here. It is going to be awesome. I believe in this project because it is important that continuing education and training be offered FREE online to librarians. It can [...]