YALSA
Badges? Do we need your stinking badges? Karen and Christie discuss the YALSA initiative to enter into the realm of digital badges
YALSA Discussion Last week, School Library Journal reported that YALSA was soft launching a project to offer badges to Young Adult Librarians. If you don’t know about badges, they are a tech trend where you receive a digital display – a badge – that alerts users to the facts that you have demonstrated a skill […]
How I Survived Conferencing with Teens and You Can Too
The other day I talked about how ALA 2013 was going to be a commuter conference for me, and mentioned that I would be bringing teens along for the first time. All of this contributed to an e..x..h..a..u..s..t..i..n..g weekend, but honestly, I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity and would do it again […]
Happy Hour? When what we do is different than what we say we do
In case you missed it, Heather, Karen, Robin and I were on Twitter on Thursday night (and on email too but you can’t see the emails, poor you because they had way more sarcasm and snark) discussing the YALSA Happy Hour that will be going on in Chicago. Disclaimer: Heather and I are members of […]
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