Posts Tagged ‘SLA2008’
Who wants to go to SLA 2009?
A year ago, right about this time, I happened to get an email from the Special Libraries Association Western Canada Chapter (or SLA-WCC) about their travel grant award for new professionals. All you had to do was be a member in good standing of SLA and the Western Canada Chapter, have graduated from a library […]
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Panic! at the library
Stephen Cohen at Library Stuff referenced an article in the Washington Times about the SLA conference in Seattle that I just attended. The author was (apparently) surprised at how far librarians have moved from being custodians of books to full fledged geeks. As I read the article, I started to hyperventilate. I wasn’t at any […]
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Going, going, green!
At SLA2008 in Seattle, one of the big initiatives was to make the conference as green as possible. There were no piles of bottled water to grab from, instead there were water coolers where you could fill up the new reusable water bottle you could receive courtesy of the Pacific Northwest chapter. Instead of handouts, […]
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Dangling conversations
Seth Godin published an interesting post on what every good marketer should know called “What do you know?” I particularly like the 8th bullet point: Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations. As a solo librarian I work hard to […]
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Tags: Marketing, SLA2008, Storytelling
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