Time to get reorganized

Hello everyone.

The NCEA/Cath Lib Assn conferences are over and it's time to get rejuvenated and reorganized. My workshops at the conference with Chris Plaia, JSerra English instructor and founding Chair of the department, and Dr. David Loertscher, from SJSU SLIS, went very well. We received great evaluations and most people agreed that we could have used up a double session to deliver all our info.

The slides that I and Dr. L presented are on the JSerra library webpage, http://www.jserra.org/library under the downloads section. Dr. L discussed his latest publication, The New Learning Commons, which is available from LMCSource.

NCEA was held at the Anaheim Convention Center and CathLA was at the Hyatt Regency a few blocks away. I attended several sessions, but spent a lot of time going back and forth. The tech sessions seemed very low level to me, but I know I have a lot of knowledge in that area.

Next on my agenda is preparing for my panel discussion on information literacy at JSerra for Esther Grassian's UCLA library school grad students which will be held in Second Life on April 29th, 1:30pm to 5pm.

I understand many changes have occurred in the public schools regarding our precious LMTs and I am going to spend some time this week ascertaining the current status of our local school districts. Then we will regroup and move forward.

I was in a videoconference with Glen Warren at OCDE and some other CA librarians in March to discuss the new task force being formed by Glen. I will have more information for you about that this week.

I will be contacting all the co-authors of the blog this week. It is important that we all communicate and collaborate.

More from me later this week!!

Jeanne Swedo
JSerra Cath HS