By: Paige Battle, Grant High School teacher librarian, Portland, OR This year’s OASL (Oregon Association of School Libraries) Fall Conference in Coos Bay, Oregon, focused on the theme of “20/20 Vision” as teacher librarians and library staff members look clearly toward the future of school libraries. Conference keynote speaker Mark Ray told attendees that we […]
Heads up! The deadline for OLA 2016 conference proposals will be September 30th! This is a “pre-call” because we don’t have the submission form up just yet but we’ll have that linked at our 2016 Conference website when it’s ready. The 2016 conference theme is “Tell Your Story”. Proposal descriptions are typically limited to 100 […]
Proposal submissions for the ACRL Washington & Oregon Joint Fall Conference are now open! Submit your proposal for a presentation, workshop, discussion, 15-minute talk, or lightning talk for presentation at our conference October 22-23, 2015 in Eatonville, WA. Our theme for 2015 is Forging Partnerships, Opening Doors. Some possible distillations of this theme include: open […]
The following titles are ones mentioned in the keynote addresses and talks at the ACRL-Oregon/Washington Joint Fall Conference in Menucha: Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice http://libraryjuicepress.com/critical-journeys.php Identity Technologies : Constructing the Self Online http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780299296438 Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence http://pensup.com/2014/10/07/killing-trayvons-an-anthology-of-american-violence/ Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation […]
There were lots of great presentations at the ACRL-OR/WA fall conference last week. So many that some of you may have been overwhelmed at the time, and some of us just like to process information more slowly. Here are links to some of those presentations. If you are a presenter and did not yet send […]
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