a few new interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights
While I wish, as per usual, that the URL and the web page were friendlier and that I could see what changes were made, ALA has released a few more council-approved interpretations of the Library Bill...
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Banned Books Week as seen through its funders’ eyes
More on the Chicago Defender. Here are my old Banned Books Weeks posts: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. I skipped 2005. It’s time for a review of Banned Books Week. This year...
View Articletwo worthwhile reports – ALA on ebooks and a digital curation guide
I’ve been trying to have as much summer as is possible with a messed up ankle. I just got through driving a friend’s Mini Cooper across the country (see photos here) and am heading back to the east...
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Barbara Gittings, that lady in the “hug a homosexual” booth
Just a photo that came across my stream, taken for Life magazine but not published there. This is from ALA, in 1971. I saw the photo and wanted to know more about it. As a former member of SRRT and...
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How to hold a blood drive in the spirit of intellectual freedom
It’s been fun being able to follow along with the ALA Midwinter conference on a bunch of different social media fronts. I was just reading the Stonewall Book Awards press release (congrats everyone)...
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asking for what you want, getting what you want
This has been a heady National Library Week for many librarians I know and me in particular. There’s been a lot of online agita and, unlike the way these things usually go, some things wound up...
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My Values Workshop for LLAMA’s Career Institute at ALA in Boston
I went to ALA for the first time in several years last week. I don’t think I’ve been to ALA since the Think Tank has been in existence. It was a great setup. Conference was in Boston. I was giving a...
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What I wanted to be when I grew up
There was an interesting thread on ALA Think Tank where people talked about what they wanted to be when they grew up. I never wanted to be a librarian, though I liked the librarians that I knew. I...
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My CNN editorial, how it all came to be
So I wrote an op-ed about the recent Macmillan/ebooks kerfuffle for CNN. Here’s how that all worked…. I got an email from Jane Carr (literary historian, daughter of a librarian, CNN opinion editor)...
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My ALA Conference
I am the Chapter Councilor for Vermont. This means I get to (have to) go to the annual and midwinter conferences and represent the great state of Vermont. I mostly like it. To be honest, I’ve liked it...
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ALA Midwinter Report 2022
Hello from your local Chapter Councilor to the American Library Association. This past week I attended Council Forums and Council meetings virtually and this is my report. Want to be a Councilor?...
View ArticleVermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA Annual 2020
I attended the American Library Association’s first virtual conference between June 17th and June 27th. This was the first ALA Annual with new Executive Director Tracie Hall who was replacing acting...
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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023
All documents for this meeting can be found here. https://www.ala.org/aboutala/virtual-llx-and-annual-conference-council-meetings Attendee report: 2653 attendees at LLX, 1711 are reg members (i.e. not...
View ArticleWhy the Resolution on Guaranteeing Virtual Participation in ALA Governance?
With SRRT Councilor Tara Brady, I sponsored a resolution about making ALA governance available virtually. Right now the bylaws say that Executive Board and Council meetings “may be held in either fully...
View ArticleVermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA Annual 2023
Hello — I recently got back from virtually attending ALA. Virtual attendance at Council meetings continues to work pretty well and I submitted one resolution. We had significantly shorter meetings this...
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