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 [...]
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On March 4th, I participated in a virtual job shadowing project on Twitter organized by the Florida Library Association. The objective was to help recruit new librarians by showing them what librarians did during the day. Also featured were public librarians, a hospital librarian, a trainer/ independent worker and a library cooperative director. You will find below the tweets [...]
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 [...]
The American Institute of Architects selected eight recipients for the 2009 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. For each winning library, I tried to link to the website and to project details, via the architects’ sites and/or via the Architectural Record, if available. Arabian Library, Scottsdale Public Library, Scottsdale, Arizona richard+bauer architecture, LLC about the project C.V. [...]
Phil Bradley wrote a post on his blog about the possible uses of Twitter in libraries. My library has an account on Twitter (@usfplib). I simply feed the RSS of the library’s blog into it. Since my blog covers events, people, new resources, hours, services etc. I’m pretty well covered. I’m wondering though if it [...]
As the first USF librarian at the Lakeland campus (now Polytechnic), I opened the USF Polytechnic Library in January 2007 and have developed its various services.
I've held positions as information broker, Internet consultant and academic librarian in Canada, the US and Europe.
A blogger since 2001, I've created and maintained several sites in, and outside, of the biblioblogosphere.
I'm active in SLA, and currently serve as on the boards of the Academic Division and the Florida-Caribbean Chapter.
