ALA-poking around in the ALA site, I discover online education possibilities, some of them free and the others a lot cheaper than driving to Clear Lake. These would be great for library in-service, to get comp time and just to be a better more current librarian. For example, I am pretty sure I need to watch "RDA: Benefits for Users and Catalogers" How about "Introduction Guide to Reference" General Editor Denise Beaubien Bennett and ALA Publishing staff introduce you to Guide to Reference, with more than 16,000 fully annotated entries describing essential print and web reference sources. Holy cow! I paid big bucks for less than that in library school. There's about 30 offerings just under school libraries including one on using books to counteract bullying.
Who knew? I always just looked at the reading lists.
TXLA also has cool and free continuing education, but the most interesting link is INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM http://www.txla.org/intellectual-freedom
YALSA WWW reading challenge, of course, and I am going to seriously check into it a.s.a.p.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wrestlemania1112 BUT I also blush to realize I missed Teen Tech Week which might have let me let them loose in the library to really use all their 2.0 plus acumen to my delight. Here's YALSA's take--Teen Tech Week is a chance for libraries to throw open their physical & virtual doors and show their communities all the great things they're doing for teens with technology. Here's mine--why limit it to teens? String around my finger for next year!! Virtual string, of course.
alsc-- I like the external relationships link. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/externalrelationships/organizations.cfm
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