Public Library Section Needs Conference Volunteers

Hey public librarians, would you like a fun and easy way to meet people at the annual conference? The SCLA Public Library section needs helping hands to help run their booth between sessions. Volunteers would assist with selling raffle tickets and demonstrating e-readers, which would be a great networking opportunity for new SCLA members. Contact Georgia Coleman at gcoleman at myrcpl dot com for more information.

Midlands Tech's Library Offers Free Workshops

SCLA member Abbie Cook from the Midlands Technical College Library asked me to share with you about a series of free workshops offered by the library. 

Call or email Laura Baker at 822-3533 or bakerl@midlandstech.edu for more information

Poster Session Opportunity

Interested in presenting at the SCLA Annual Conference in October?  Submit a poster!


Applications are due on August 26!  From the SCLA website:

Poster sessions may present any of the following:

·               a description of an innovative library program or service

·               an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort

·               a report of a research study

 

Poster sessions consist of materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text placed on display boards.  During the conference time allotted for poster sessions, presenters informally discuss their projects with conference attendees.

Twenty-five (25) simultaneous poster sessions will be selected for presentation at SCLA 2011 in Charleston , S.C. Poster sessions will be presented on Friday, October 21, 2010 from 8am-9am.   

See http://scla.org/content/scla-annual-conference-2011 for more info.

Google+

Google+ remains in limited field trial for now, but that hasn’t tempered the buzz about Facebook’s new competition.  Users must be invited, but even with an invitation, you still might not get into the party for awhile. 


If you’re curious about all of the chatter, here’s the tour, plus a few notes from around Biblioterra:

David Lee King's "Google Plus - Should You and Your Library Be There?"
Sarah Houghton-Jan's "My Google+ Class @ the Library"
Roy Tennant's "Will Google+ Kill Facebook?"
Phil Bradley's "Searching on Google Plus for Librarians"