Tag: professional associations
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Wrap-up from #OLASC14 Presentation
On Friday (January 30th) I presented at the OLA Superconference 2014 here in Toronto. My co-presenter Kim Stymest and I presented a session called “Beyond LinkedIn: New technologies for career development”. It was well attended! And people had great questions. I’m glad it’s done (I was so nervous!) but it was super fun and professional…
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#slatalk: round-up
I mentioned the #slatalk event I was going to participate in last week… And then it happened. And it was fun! A round-up of the event:
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“The best piece of career advice I received is…”
Thursday night I participated as part of a panel set up by the SLA Student Chapter at the University of Toronto’s iSchool. The theme of the night was, “What’s the best career advice you’ve ever gotten?” One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to take more risks, and this dovetailed a bit with what I told…
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CLA Sessions Accepted!
Just so ya know I work with the bestest CLA committee eva, and we have TWO count ’em TWOOOO sessions accepted at the CLA Conference in Halifax in May, 2011. Yay, us! Here are the blurbs:
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How to shush with style: Marketing at the library
A few days ago I posted at the Re:Generations blog about marketing in the lie-berry. I mentioned that a few of the sessions I attended At the OLA Superconference in February focused on this topic, and the closely related topics of outreach and communications. In particular, I was rather smitten with a session by some…
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Imma Re-Pra-Zent
Update: The event was great! We set it up so that the content was largely driven by the students questions, and I think it worked…. I was there until 9pm talking with some of them. It was a very curious, impressive group. People: The future of library land in is good hands! I am participating…
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SLA Name Non-Change
The Special Libraries Association has voted to keep it’s name, and not change to Association of Strategic Knowledge Professionals. I’m a member, and I found the whole debate really interesting. Question to you, fair reader: What does Special Library mean to you? How about Strategic Knowledge Professional? Lie-berry and non-lie-berry people alike are welcome to…
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OLA Access article.
So I wrote this article for the OLA Access magazine, and it’s available online here. The central thesis of the item is: “Attention students: Do stuff besides schoolwork, OK? You will get a job that way.” I could write a follow-up now, proving this thesis, with the supporting evidence being, “Hey look, I got a…