President's Update - October 8, 2015The MLA Annual Conference is just around the corner. I am registered, I have my hotel reservation and I downloaded the conference mobile app (text MLA 57780). All ready then, right? Well, not so much. Now comes the hard part – deciding which sessions to attend. Seriously, this is not going to be easy. Have you seen the schedule? I tend to ask myself several questions when choosing what sessions to attend. Does the topic have immediate relevance to my job? Have I heard good things about the speaker? Will I learn something that I wouldn’t learn anywhere else? Is the session going to make me smile? Take a look at the first time block, 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 28. I can answer yes to at least one of the questions for almost every session.
I managed to exclude only one presentation, Growing as a Public Library Trustee, only because I’m not a trustee. Whoohoo, my decision is now down to picking one out of six instead of one out of seven. Now it’s *much* easier. So thank you very much, MLA 2015 Annual Conference work group. This is going to be difficult. I hold you responsible. In all seriousness, many thanks to the conference work group, the MLA staff, the presenters, our sponsors and everyone else who has given so much to make this happen. This is an amazing program and I’m honored to play a part in it. Thank you. |