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While I was at ALA I attended the BIGWIG unconference and had a great conversation with David Lee King and other unconference participants about the ideas of experience economy and community development within your digital community. For example, consider the idea of Build-a-Bear (those creepy overpriced bears that you stuff on your own). It costs [...]

It’s always a bit sad to leave conference. You make new friends, see old friends, and generally have a sleepaway camp feel about the whole event. At least that’s how I feel about the time spent.
Yesterday I went to the ACRL Science and Technology section (STS) program on innovation in science learning and the ACRL [...]

Just a quick note from Anaheim to say that our ACRL 101 program went off without a hitch. I am so pleased and proud of the work of all of the Emerging Leaders in my group. Planning a national conference program was a totally new thing to me but I think it’s a skill set [...]

Webvisions is officially done and over with. It was an awesome time. I think I will have quite a lot to say, but I’m going to attempt to break things up into smaller, segmented posts. We’ll see how that goes—my conference writeups are always sorely lacking and out-of-date.
From my standpoint as a librarian, Webvisions was [...]

Oh jeez. It’s ok if you laugh at me for this, I promise.
I just found another something for which I just have to apply. It’s nothing as huge as EL 08, but is really cool and important to me. So yeah, I will once again be frantically cranking out letters and applications. This is for [...]