Too Much Presentation Pressure
The greatest presentation I’ve ever seen at a library conference was many years ago at an ALA conference in Chicago. It may come as no surprise that the presenter was not a librarian. It was Stephen...
View ArticleGoing Through The Motions
Have you ever attended a presentation, sat through a class or lecture or possibly watched a music performance and afterwards felt that the speaker, instructor or performer simply sleepwalked through...
View ArticleSudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Cooperation or Duplication Here’s an interesting project from a few libraries out west that have decided to cooperatively build a library of video instructional tutorials. So far the tutorials cover...
View ArticleScenes From A Conference
Scenes from a Conference – Part 1 Speaker: I hate PowerPoint. That’s why I’m using Prezi for my presentation today. Who (asks audience) uses Prezi? (a few hands go up). Speaker: Yeah! (fist pump)...
View ArticleSudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Even Lightning Gets More Time I like lightning talks. I have given four of them now. It’s a challenge to come up with a sensible presentation that still manages a good learning experience while...
View ArticleCountdown to the Conference
I’ve found myself with less time than usual for blogging lately as I’ve been busy working on the poster I’m presenting with colleagues at the upcoming ACRL National Conference. In the handful of years...
View ArticleYou Can Tell Everyone About This PHITE Club
Editor’s Note: Here at ACRLog we are always open to guest posts from academic librarians who want to share a story about an interesting or innovative project at their library. I was attending the Texas...
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Professional Conference Lurker No More!
Hello there. My name is Chloe. Long time conference lurker, first time participant. In the language of the internet, a ‘lurker’ is someone who observes online forums or communities without actively...
View ArticleSilent Fireworks, HRC, and #ALAAC2017
Battling summer sinobronchitis — not allergies as it turns out — certainly puts a damper on conference travel. It has also contributed to feeling less than celebratory leading up to the Independence...
View ArticleWhen do new librarians start publishing anyway?
Confession: I’m 10 months into my first job in an academic library and I haven’t published anything. I haven’t been on a conference panel, and I haven’t given a full length presentation about my...
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