iSchooler blog about ALA

11Jul08

ALA 2008 has come and gone and a number of iSchoolers were there.

ALA President for 2007-2008 Loriene Roy posted the talk that she gave at Jim Rettig’s inaugural banquet on July 1.

Good moments became good days, months, until a good year passed. It was a good year to be an ALA President.

Read her whole speech, including a long list of ALA’s accomplishments for the previous year.

Over on the Kilgarlin Center Blog, Suzy talks about one of the Preservation Discussion groups that she went to, which involved discussing the “launch of a new website devoted to providing a free resource for preservation education”.

As part of the new Gaming in Libraries initiative, Joe Sanchez attended Gaming Night, which sported a mix of video and board game for ALA attendees to play.

Gaming Night was a lot of fun and it served in connecting the traditional board gamers with the newer video-gamers and I think both groups gained respect for each other and saw more similarities than differences.

ellie <3 libraries has detailed write-ups of many of the panels that she went to, including one called Privacy: Is It Time for a Revolution?. The panelists addressed the questions: Does privacy still matter to information seekers? Do they care and if they don’t, should they?

Do we need to care about our patron’s personal information when they’re so ready to give it up on those social sites?
Well they’re deciding when and where they give it up.
Private is not the same as secret – your parents did something private that’s not a secret or you wouldn’t be here.

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