Create a Successful Staff Retreat

Denise van Zanten of Manchester City Library, Dianne Hathaway of Goffstown Public Library, Amy Lapointe of Amherst Town Library and Marilyn Borgendale of GMILCS, Inc. led this presentation about a successful staff retreat that GMILCS libraries had in February. GMILCS is a consortium of 12 public and academic libraries in New Hampshire.
Shared documents on the [...]

Discussion Group: Library Lifelines

This discussion group was led by Diana Comer (dean) and Louise Motta (librarian) from the Dorothy Salter Library at Salter College.
Louise describes herself as a non-traditional librarian (3rd or 4th career) serving mostly non-traditional students in a non-traditional library.
She described this project as a “Field of Dreams.” They started the library with a vision [...]

Get a (Second) Life!

For those of you who skedaddled early and missed this session, here are my own notes from the presentation by myself, Megan Fox, and Candy Schwartz.
“Second Life is a 3-D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents.”
Second Life Stats:

Total Registered Residents: 9,566,36 (compare to 4,878,127 in March 2007)
Logged In Last 60 [...]

Pimp my Firefox

http://www.librarian.net/talks/nelafox

State of the States

Funding is an issue in ALL New England States, but grant funds are responsible for the success of projects ranging from getting a toilet put into a small library in VT to hooking up with WebJunction for professional development needs. Representatives from all six New England States were on hand to detail some of their [...]