Hollywood Librarian needs you!

Tammy Flippen has been communicating with Hollywood Librarian writer and director Ann Seidl about the Missouri premiere. She is very interested in YOUR feedback about the film. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Do you think more libraries in Missouri will be interested in hosting the film?
 You can provide valuable feedback and get involved [...]

Missing your conference program?

Conference program with lots of notes from some of the sessions.   A conference program was turned in at the hospitality desk on Thursday.  It contains a small quantity of Missouri State Library bookmarks and brochures and there are notes from conference sessions such as the ones the covered the Missouri Digital Heritage Project, disaster recovery for computers, [...]

Louise Jackson ~ The American West in Recent Children’s Books

I was asked to post this to the blog for those that attended Louise’s presentation. Her website is: http://www.louiseajackson.net/
 Jennifer, Springfield-Greene County Library

Reaching Out with Social Software

Joy Weese Moll, librarian consultant, Washington University Libraries presented a program on Reaching Out with Social Software. It was a fun and informative class for novices and experts alike.
You can stop reading here if you like because her entire presentation is available on a wiki at: http://mlasocialsoftwarepresentation.pbwiki.com
Joy’s definition of social software was [...]

Vampires & Werewolves & Witches, Oh My!

Kathy Leitle, associate deputy director, St. Louis Public Library and Amy Brown, assistant manager of the Buder Branch, St. Louis Public Library presented a program entitled Vampires & Werewolves & Witches, Oh My! The Wild World of Paranormal Romance Readers Advisory.
As most adult services librarians know, paranormal romances are hot! Slap a vampire in [...]

Ellen Wittlinger ~ True Teen Advocate

Sometimes you stumble across a book or an author that changes your life. Suddenly, you are thrust into a world that challenges your every notion of what life is or it makes you realize that you are not alone in this world.  After I read Hard Love and Parrotfish  and attended the Young Adult Author [...]

Librarians who lunch, dinner and watch movies…

The best part of MLA is meeting all the other librarians! What a fun group of people!!! So willing to share information and meet other librarians! I have really enjoyed making new friends and connections at this conference! The lunches and dinners where you have a great opportunity to talk, laugh and share—this is the [...]

Library Databases and RSS

All of the Computer and Information Technology presentations were really great, but this was my favorite! We learned so many practical applications for our library users and faculty members! We learned how to set up RSS feeds directly from EBSCO to our web pages or to an email address…what a valuable tool! One of the [...]

The Strong, Silent Librarian

I was honored today by the distinction of serving in the capacity of a table constructed from four male librarians.  You read that correctly.  Jim Snack, a magician and motivational speaker, used the four of us to demonstrate the importance of interdependence and cooperation. 
Mr. Snack is married to a woman whose maiden name is Treat.  He has many [...]

Snapshot: Marge Kudrna

I had waived to Marge in the State Library booth at the exhibition hall, and as I set down beside her before a session, we started playing that game. You know the game where you know that you know the other person, but aren’t sure precisely how. We ran through a list of [...]