This past June, I attended the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference in Philly. SLA, if you are unfamiliar, is an international association for librarians and information professionals from the corporate, government, association, non-for-profit and academic sectors. I attended the conference as the Chair of the Awards Committee for the Academic Division – this was [...]

At the SLA Annual Conference, candidates for the SLA Board of Directors were asked to answer two questions. The Division and Chapter Cabinet candidates presented their answers at the Joint Cabinet meeting. I’ve published my answers on the SLA Blog today. I’m copying them below. Catherine Lavallée-Welch- Candidate, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect Question #1 Tell us [...]

If you are, like me, attending the SLA Annual Conference in Philadelphia in June, you can use this button to let the world know:

Admission: I am an ALA member but have never attended the Annual Conference nor the Midwinter meetings. The ALA offices have submitted a white paper on the future on the Midwinter Meeting. It’s interesting to see how this meeting has greatly developed over the years, reaching up to 13,000 in attendance in recent years. That’s [...]

Tonight, I’m doing my first Pecha Kucha presentation for Lakeland’s Platform Art organization. I hesitated between two topics but the library side won. My tour du monde en 6 minutes 40 secondes (♥ RBO) will try to demonstrate how libraries are absolutely still useful and relevant. It will be mostly about public libraries but I’ll [...]

The 2009 SLA All Sciences Online Poster Session is starting today, Thursday October 15. The conference features posters originally presented last June at the SLA Annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The divisions sponsoring and participating in this conference are Biomedical & Life Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering; Food, Agriculture & Nutrition; Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics; Science-Technology. The online conference [...]

This sounds like a really interesting event: the STELLA Unconference in Denver will be January 8-9th, 2010 at the University of Denver. This meeting, organized by Joe Kraus from the University of Denver, is for any person interested in scientific, technical and engineering resources. The acronym stands for Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action. Registration [...]

ACRL has just approved the formation of a new Health Science Special Interest Group. The Interest Group will be added to the dues renewal starting in September. However, there is an existing Google Group. There will also be a meeting at ALA Chicago, in the ACRL Suite. If you are interested (even if not a [...]

As a collateral to my February 25th post, Peter Bromberg at the Library Garden blog, posts about Twitter etiquette at conference business meetings. The good and the (very) ugly. Although, sometimes I think new Twitter users don’t always realize the permanent nature of their tweets. And how very public they are.

The 9th Annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium is now accepting proposals. Deadline is March 3rd and the Symposium will take place in Maryville, MO November 6th 2009. Topics accepted are far-ranging and basically cover anything addressing the needs of both on-ground and on-line students and faculty in an academic library. I presented at Brick [...]

The early bird rate for the ACRL conference in Seattle is ending tomorrow, February 6th. Keynote speakers are Naomi Klein, Sherman Alexie and Ira Glass. Don’t forget to register! UPDATE: I forgot to mention that those who cannot attend in person can register for the Virtual Conference, with synchronous and asynchronous sessions.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Science and Technology Libraries Section is planning a two-hour program in Durban as part of the World Library and Information Congress 19-23 August 2007. The theme of the IFLA conference is “Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships” The conference is look for three papers [...]