Kentucky Library Association

2006-10-04T14:13:00.000-04:00

Collaborate and Innovate 2006

Join your friends and colleagues for a day of collaboration and innovation. This full day conference is being organized by AALL/PLL, SLA Legal Division, SLA Cincinnati and SLA Kentucky Chapters. With great organizations like this you know the conference will be great.

When:
November 10, 2006 9:30-5:00

Where:
Cincinnati Airport Marriott
2395 Progress Drive
Hebron, Kentucky 41048 USA
Phone: 1-859-586-0166

The hotel is providing a special rate just mention Special Libraries Association Kentucky Chapter when making your reservations.

What:
Keynote Susan Freeman The Creative Conflict Resolution Toolbox
Ms. Freeman is a coach/consultant with Workwise Partners and frequently speaks on EQ / personality skills and how to use them in the workplace. She is an excellent speaker and has been a national speaker at AALL and SLA.

Several mini-sessions presented by your colleagues will be held throughout the day as well. Look for more program information as the date approaches.

Who should attend:
Every librarian interested in learning more about Conflict Resolution, Team Collaboration and Professional Collaboration across organizations.

Cost:
$35 includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Event registration information will be provided shortly.

So save the date and join us for this inaugural event.

Financial support for this event has been provided by AALL and SLA Legal Division as well as Westlaw and LexisNexis.

For more information contact: Constance Ard, Lynn Fogle, Susan Brown or David Whelan

We look forward to seeing you there.

Constance Ard
3500 National City Tower
101 S. Fifth St.
Louisville KY 40202
502-587-3721
Fax 502-540-2121
e-mail csa@gdm.com

2006-09-25T13:20:00.000-04:00

“OUT OF THE STACKS AND ONTO THE STAGE II”
The Kentucky Library Association 2006 Talent Show & Library Outfit Contest

Admission is $30 (There will be a limited number of tickets for sale at the Conference Registration Desk!) and includes: "the talent," dueling pianos, buffet dinner with two (soft or hard) drink tickets, and too many sensible shoes to count! Menu: pot roast, chicken & roasted vegetables, mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
Come on folks, where else in Luh-uh-vull can you get wined, dined, and entertained for so little cash?

The Talent includes:
Julie Grannis will perform “I've got my MSLS, now what do I do?” humorous library stories.

Shadowdancer, a musical performance of original and traditional Celtic music” with Jack Montgomery, guitar, mountain dulcimer and Graham Hudspeth, guitar, bazouki.

Joyce Adams, Lisa Hughes, Terri Kirk, Marie Liang, Brenda Metzger, and Jennifer Wetzel are the McNet “Precision Reading/Book End Percussion Team”

“Unidentified Librarian”

Susan Henthorn on alto horn and Margaret Foote on piano will perform "Till There Was You" and "(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow."

Terri Kirk will emcee and Reinette Jones, James Manasco, and Enid Wohlstein will judge the Library Outfit Contest. Sponsored by: KLA Recruitment, Mentoring and Diversity Committee; African American Librarian & Library Employees Round Table, and KLDivERS.

2006-09-25T10:50:00.000-04:00

Michael Stephens at KLA/KSMA Fall Conference

Michael Stephens is like a rock star in the library world, a herald of progress. Animated, engaging, dynamic, are a few of Michael’s qualities that contradict the tired librarian stereotype.

A little bit of Internet history…

In the mid 90s when Mosaic begat Netscape the Internet as we know it today was born. Librarian’s thought, what an amusing notion, interesting, but not particularly useful. By the late 90s librarians were checking out What Color is Your Parachute? and checking in on their 401ks; fearing this new technology might soon replace books, libraries, and librarians. Zoom forward to today—the Internet has matured. New technologies have spawned new ways to communicate, to access and exchange information, and socialize.

Michael Stephens is at the forefront of how these new tools provide new access to information; as well as their ability to revitalize the library’s role as social center. He has the ability to see where the traditional library roles and new technologies overlap, how they complement one another, and the gift to successfully share this vision.

Named one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers 2005, Michael is currently an Instructor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. His wit and wisdom is available 24/7 at his very popular blog Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology. http://www.tametheweb.com/

Michael has just published “Web 2.0 and Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/web-20-and-libraries-best-practices-for-social-software.html This book is essential reading and a great reference for any librarian interested in incorporating Web 2.0 and social software into their library programming.

At the 2006 KLA/KSMA Joint Annual Conference Michael is presenting a “Conference Blog Workshop” on Wednesday, September 27 at 9 AM – 12 PM and a session “Toward Library & Librarian 2.0” on Thursday, September 28 at 11 AM – 12:15 PM. For more information and to sign up for the workshop go to http://www.kylibasn.org/index.cfm

2006-05-15T14:04:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Kentucky Library Association Weblog

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging”.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The focus of the Kentucky Library Association Weblog will be, obviously, issues of interest to Kentucky Librarians. In the beginning the blog will be a primer of all things blog, a sort of “how to” blog. Eventually it will become a means of communication between the Association and the membership.