We need to send out a shout of congratulations to Roy Degler.  He won the
Oklahoma Library Association: OUTSTANDING NEW LIBRARIAN AWARD. 
This award is granted to an individual librarian in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of librarianship and potential for professional development. The recipient of this award must have five or fewer [...]

The roundtables are forming.  Come into the MPLA Talk area to join a roundtable.   People have started posting comments and questions.  Come introduce yourself or post a comment in a roundtable.  Don’t know which one you want to join?  There is one that everyone should join – the hot tub roundtable.  You don’t have to [...]

I arrived yesterday to attend the Oklahoma Conference – my first state that I planned on visiting during my President year.
I thought I would give you some highlights of the conference.
I was greeted at the airport by Barbara Ray and her friend Carla, and that evening was the beginning of their conference – the OLA [...]

I was trying to think of something to blog about – as an MPLA staff member, I should contribute more to MPLA 2.0 than I do. I thought I’d share an interesting story from the conference last week – a story you likely only heard about if you were at the president’s suite party that [...]

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 [...]

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MPLA Leadership Institute

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 [...]