What happens when you join ALA? I am not sure about other professional organizations. But at least in ALA, nothing happens unless you are awarded with some scholarships, fellowships, internships, etc. I called up and paid my membership fee. A few weeks later, I got the card with my ALA member number printed in the [...]
There is this table that has recently fascinated me. It is Microsoft Surface table. With both the commercial and the development version, this table looks absolutely fabulous to my librarian eyes.
What is Microsoft Surface table? Imagine a coffee table whose surface works like an iPhone responsive to touch with its full computing power.
I can see [...]
Some conference sessions are just irresistible because of their titles. For example, “Ultimate Debate: Has Library 2.0 fulfilled its promise?” Right? I know that “Electronic Resource Management Systems: The Promise and Disappointment” would have been just as irresistible to some librarians. If you deal with e-resources at work, whether you are cataloging them, acquiring them, [...]
When I was in a MLIS program, I was only vaguely aware of the fact that some academic librarians are appointed as faculty while some are not. Now that I work at a library where librarians are considered to be faculty (no tenure-track), publishing has become an issue of my interests lately. So I [...]
Here is the sessions that I have attended at 2009 ALA annual. I am already forgetting to the order of the sessions and the discussions that took place in each session. Hopefully, the presentations would be soon posted at ALA Connect so that I can take a look.
I also wish the detailed content and presentations/presenters [...]
I am opening this blog right after attending 2009 ALA annual conference in Chicago. It was my first ALA conference, and I was twittering for fun. From the twittering throughout the conference, I came to learn that an amazing number of awesome librarians are actively twittering and blogging in order to record their thoughts and [...]