Category Archives: professional development

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 I [...]
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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 of us [...]
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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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Reflecting on ACRL

By Iris | Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2009
This time around, ACRL was a better experience than last time, thanks in a large part to those of you who introduced yourselves to me, and to several of my LSW friends who spent a great evening together on Saturday. As I sat in the closing keynote (with IRA GLASS, people!!! Now that’s how to [...]
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Settling in for ACRL in Seattle

By Iris | Published: Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I love Seattle. This is only my second time here, but it’s just such a pretty city. And seriously, the entire down-town area smells of coffee, which strikes me as the perfect smell for a city. I’m sitting here listening to announcements before the opening keynote and hoping that this conference will strike that tricky balance [...]
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