December 2014 archive

Janelle’s ARSL Conference Highlights

I attended the Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) in Tacoma, Washington September 3-6, 2014 along with Emily Sitz from SWKLS and Rebecca Heinz from Fowler Public Library.  Our days were filled with great speakers and breakout sessions.   Several times there we so many interesting breakout sessions that it was hard to choose which …

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Emily’s ARSL 2014 Annual Conference Highlights

Many of the presenters posted the presentation slides and documents at http://arsl.info/2014/09/2014-conference-handouts-presentations/    One of the better sessions I attended was entitled “Tablet Slinging Librarians: Using Tablets to Improve Library Services”. The session was presented by Leah Kulikowski who had been the public library director at Wamego, KS. Wamego won the best small library in …

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