The Thursday session, ‘Keeping Up with Big Daddy: Meeting 2.0 User Expectations on , a 1.0 Budge’ offered wonderful advice on 2.0 tools. I highly recommend Jing, the screen capture tool. This is the best way I have ever seen to answer IM, chat, email, or embedded librarian reference questions. While a picture is [...]
The board met yesterday with main focus on the Leadership Institute. We will be discussing in the next coming weeks the idea of a 2.5 day intenstive workshop attached to the OLA/MPLA conference in 2010. This discussion was brought forth because of the lack of funding to have a full LI similar to the ones [...]
Academic Forum deadline has been extended to Tuesday, February 17th.
CALL FOR PAPERS! The MPLA Academic Section has posted a “Call for Papers” for its Professional Forum, to be held at the KLA/MPLA Joint Conference in Wichita, Kansas, April 1-3, 2009. The Professional Forum presents new ideas, innovations, and case studies in librarianship that benefit [...]
A Call for Poster Session Participants
KLA\MPLA is hosting a Poster Session at our joint conference – April 1st – 3rd.
We are sending a call out for participants for the Poster Session, which is scheduled for Thursday morning, April 2nd, from 8am-9am, in the Expo Hall. The Posters may stay up the entire day, but [...]
Round tables are forming!
We will meet 4:30 – 5:30 on Wednesday April 1st. We will gather together and form Round tables based on people’s area of interests. We will use the new MPLA 2.0 to continue the momentum that we begin at the conference. Come and help us begin a new chapter for MPLA.
We have some fun times planned for MPLA folks. We are forming the first ever Hot Tub Round-table. It is will be a time for us to gather and enjoy the company of fellow MPLA colleagues. We will be meeting on the Wednesday night at 8pm at the conference Hotel Hot Tub. One more reason [...]
CALL FOR PAPERS! The MPLA Academic Section has posted a “Call for Papers” for its Professional Forum, to be held at the KLA/MPLA Joint Conference in Wichita, Kansas, April 1-3, 2009. The Professional Forum presents new ideas, innovations, and case studies in librarianship that benefit the profession. Research methodology is encouraged, but not essential. MPLA [...]
Well, I promised our new community portal administrator (CPA? Too bad the pay’s not quite in that same league with other CPAs) I’d draft a blog entry to help make the community portal appear to have some activity, when members begin exploring.
We’re sprucing the MPLA website up in concert with rolling out the new member community – I think we’re going to call the electronic communities MPLA 2.0 –