If you haven't come across the book, “Revolting Librarians Redux” yet, you really owe it to yourself to pick up a copy. It's got a huge range of essays (plus poems, cartoons and more) on all manner of library-related topics. If nothing else, the Appendix linking different types of librarians to their star signs is […]
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CLA Update
Just reading the CLA Bulletin and it sounds like they'll post speaker's presentations as they receive them (although that's currently a non-existent link so who knows?) But anyhow, if something shows up there, one of my complaints will have been unfounded (though I'd still love to see full video streams of all the sessions – […]
CLA Session Notes – "Systemic Barriers to Library Use: Libraries Engage the Socially Excluded"
These are my notes from probably the best session I attended at CLA (okay, it tied with Michael Geist's session on copyright but those were two totally different things. Or were they?) To put it in perspective, I wrote maybe a page in my notebook at most sessions I attended. I took six pages at […]
CLA Conference – Holly's Take
[2008-03-21 – Holly is a classmate who I think posted her impressions on our class's private Yahoo! group and who gave me permission to reprint them here.] The good:Sessions – “Is one stop shopping all we dreamed it would be? The Single search interface in action”This was great, it was a LAC librarian and two […]
Captain Copyright Saves The Day at CLA
Access Copyright's “Captain Copyright” campaign raised some hackles at CLA and had a few of us subverting the promotional materials that Access Copyright had at their booth by modifying the stickers they were giving out… For anyone who doesn't know, Captain Copyright is a character created by Access Copyright to promote copyright to students and […]
Some CLA-related Blog Posts On Other Sites
Bloglines Search Result for “Canadian Library Association” A couple favourites from the above list of results…Summary of Stephen and Avi Lewis Opening Keynote Presentation(via the Green Kangaroo) Dumb Things I Have Done So Far at CLA(via Inspyration) Why The CLA Should Have Their 2010 Conference in Whitehorse(via Laurie the Librarian) …and the CLA conference in […]
Twelve Ways To Improve The CLA Conference
Am I ever going to do a post where I'm happy about something instead of suggesting how to change and improve it? (Probably not…) Obviously these suggestions come heavily from the perspective of a student and a first-time CLA attendee. Twelve Ways To Improve The CLA Conference1. Don't charge students to attend 2. Don't have […]
CLA Conference – Paul & Kelly's Take
Here's the report that a couple classmates sent to our class listserv with their take on the CLA conference… —The good:The 2 best presentations we saw were on Thursday, one on recruitment in Academic Libraries, and the other was a debate on whether we as librarians have made ourselves obsolete over the past decade. The […]
A Few CLA Photos…
Shea had the camera while being a tourist (and we didn't think to take our old-fashioned film camera which still needs to have its current roll finished) so I didn't take as many shots at CLA as I normally would have. Here are some though… A couple from the Thursday night pub crawl… Three previous […]
Misadventures at CLA – Day Four (Saturday)
Just back from the CLA conference (it officially ended up Saturday but we stayed an extra day to do some sightseeing and so we'd have a full day to drive home instead of rushing on Saturday.) Turns out this was a wise decision as I'll explain later… Saturday, I was again up very early and […]