ILA Board meeting

Posted on April 11, 2008 by stevepoppino

Well, Anne sent me a flash drive after only 2 posts (!) so I owe one.
Today I’m in the quarterly ILA Board meeting.  Plans for the annual conference are progressing.  It will be held in Idaho Falls.  There will be two preconferences (map cataloging and partners for consumer health reference), and a reception Wednesday evening [...]

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Virtual Reference

Posted on April 10, 2008 by stevepoppino

Virtual reference is a novel and sometimes challenging way to offer reference service to the public.  Two of us at the College of Southern Idaho take part in AnswerXpress, along with librarians from Ada Community Library, Boise Public Library, and BSU.  We help each other out by covering a regular “desk schedule” every week, and [...]

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Library Advocacy

Posted on April 9, 2008 by stevepoppino

Thanks for inviting me to join this blog. I’m a digital immigrant, so this is a bit of an experiment. Thinking about it though, I guess I’ve been sending blog-like messages over LIBIDAHO for several years. Back in 2006 and 2007, when I was active in the ILA’s Advocacy and PR Committee, periodically I sent [...]

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