Category Archives: professional development

On Not Attending Conferences

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
I realized today that I haven’t attended a conference since the fall of 2008. This brought me up short. I think of myself as attending about two national conferences per year, but apparently that’s not the case any more and hasn’t been for quite a while. I’ve heard from others who haven’t traveled to a [...]
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That’ll be Different

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Tomorrow and the next day, I’m attending a conference. A virtual conference. A virtual conference in a Second Life environment. I’ve heard of having newbie orientation to large conferences (ALA and ACRL do this, for example), but I’ve never attended those. I did, however, attend the newbie orientation session for this conference and learned such [...]
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Low-Key Cooperative Continual Professional Development

By Iris | Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2009
A few years ago, my library decided to start a cooperative blog where we’d alert each other to developments in the wider world of librarianship, highlight interesting things we’d learned, and generally help each other keep up. There was enthusiasm, there was drive, there was an interesting blog… and then it died. As far as [...]
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Mini-Immersion: A Shameless “How We Done Good” Post

By Iris | Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Well, last night ended up being un-fun and not very restful, and today started out with a low-grade fever (now gone, so things are looking up). So while I’m confining myself to laziness for the rest of the day, I thought I’d lay out this Mini-Immersion idea in its more logistical details. The Two-Fold Inspiration Many [...]
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Have Interest – Will Adopt New Conference

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
For the last couple of years, I’ve been wondering just which conference I should adopt as “my” conference. I want it to be one where the sessions are thought provoking and where I’ll get to hang out with people I know and like and are interested in things I’m interested in, and where I can [...]
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