A Wandering Eyre

After two years of dreaming and wondering if ALA could pull it off, the ALA Unconference is tomorrow! Meredith and I worked hard on this project and it is something that we hope goes well and can be repeated in the future. So much about the process of planning the Unconference has been wonderful. What [...]

In an effort to get ready for ALA, I turned on the Twitter widget that creates a post from my daily Tweets. Sadly, it went a bit haywire. I will try to fix it today, but there may be another strange post tomorrow. The rumors are true. I am bringing Mr. Rochester and Baby Rochester [...]

Last night, we sent out the survey for the topics to be presented at the ALA Unconference and this morning there was a flurry of email in my inbox from people who can no longer make the Unconference. As a result, we have a very small waiting list. As of now, there is only one [...]

There are currently 63 people signed up to attend the Unconference at ALA Annual. The topics range from Web 3.0 to teaching teens about sex. Amazing! That fact that there are so many different kinds of librarians signing up with so many different ideas tells me that there are a lot of people out there [...]

It is time to be the presentation topic you want to be. Do you have a topic you want to discuss with others but can find no outlet? Have a new idea or project you want to share? At ALA Annual 2009, I (along with my frequent partner in crime Meredith Farkas) am helping to [...]

Today, I wrote my last post for ALA TechSource. I felt that I had to leave given my sporadic posting and it is so hard to sit down and write these days. Time to write is not the only problem. It is hard to write about tech trends when you never have time to read [...]

(I said Friday for big news, but I suppose I am unable to read calendars. This is the big announcement. Enjoy.) People fear and worry about the unknown. The PTB, Powers That Be, in most organizations perpetuate fear by having closed meetings, by distributing meeting minutes that have no substance, hiding or disguising the way [...]

I am very pleased that Jason Griffey, my conference husband and friend extraordinaire, is joining the TechSource Team. He is a super smart guy and is always amazing me with the things he knows and finds. I know he will have some very good things to tell us. Welcome, Jason. –Jane, loves to see her [...]

The not so good bits being two things I did not see but heard a lot about about one thing for which I was present and accounted for. Most of my complaints about ALA Midwinter are about things having to do with the division in which I spend most of my time: LITA. As we [...]

This is the round-up post minus the soapbox elements. In this post, I write about the things I liked about my trip and the things that made me feel good about ALA. There were, of course, some not fabulous things about Midwinter, but I am putting those in their very own post. Just for you, [...]