Category Archives: travel

ALA Day 1

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | June 22, 2012 - 5:09 pm | , , , , ,
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(Numbering the day is no promise to write one of these every evening.) I’m on an iPad, so this will run brief (and choppy) for a post in a CoralBlog. It isn’t so bad to type on, but it’s slow. This was the first day of my first conference in a repeat location. (I attended Anaheim 2008, as an enrolled-but-not-yet-matriculated library student.) I am staying at the EL house, which is a bit of a walk, so I actually passed the hotel I stayed in the last time, which was cool. And then the giant tree I remember admiring, in … Continue reading →

See you in Anaheim?

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | May 31, 2012 - 6:50 pm | , , , ,
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Things have been hectic, since Midwinter. Work’s been busy (because when isn’t it?), some things in the Alaska Library Association have moved forward (which is fantastic, but potentially time-consuming), various life stuff (including more of Dale’s and my first year as homeowners) has continued to happen, and Group G’s Emerging Leaders project has taken up way more of my time and energy than I should admit to, given the other things I’m supposed to be getting done. But that last one, at least, will be over soon. We’re pulling together our report and our presentation(s), and it’s really nice to … Continue reading →

Bits and pieces

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | February 20, 2012 - 4:34 pm | , , , , , , , , ,
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Google Plus OK, I don’t know how long this will be available (and I don’t know a better way to capture it forever than to play-and-grab with screen capture—any Elluminate Live wizards out there with a better plan?), but my Google Plus talk is available here. You’ll need to fill in the email address and name boxes, for some reason I don’t understand, but nothing will happen because of it—you can put in gibberish with an @ sign, and it won’t know. :) It isn’t the world’s best Elive session, but neither is it the worst. I wish I’d said … Continue reading →

#AkLA12 – Plan

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | February 13, 2012 - 3:49 pm | , , , , ,
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I keep being asked if I have free time at the Alaska Library Association conference, coming up on February 23-26 in sunny Fairbanks, and I keep having to look up my registration. So I thought I’d share my schedule (even though I’ve learned not to post ahead of time what I’m going to attend). This way, I’ll have it in an easy-to-view format, and I’ll be able to share it. Plus, I haven’t planned all my meals, so I’m hoping to make plans with folks (look for bold text). :) If I put a star (*) by it, I’m either … Continue reading →

My Flight to Midwinter

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | January 28, 2012 - 1:05 pm | , , ,
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So I was that person whose luggage went missing, before conference. Awful timing, too: they took a bunch of pictures at the Emerging Leaders meeting, where I was wearing a t-shirt (only mostly covered by a cardigan) and dirty jeans. I even made it on Librarian Wardrobe, I think as a cautionary tale. ;) But let’s go back a bit. (And if you don’t want to read about airlines and how they’re frustrating, it’s probably fine to skip this whole post. There are no nuggets of wisdom, besides perhaps “Always bring a change of clothes in carry-on.”) I left Anchorage … Continue reading →

ALA Midwinter 2012 – Lessons

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | January 24, 2012 - 2:53 pm | , , , , , , ,
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I had a really excellent conference! I got to meet several of my library superheroes, plus quite a few people I have no doubt will become my library superheroes as time goes on. I participated in the first session of this year’s Emerging Leaders program (which was excellent! Group G totally rocks!), planned an unofficial (not in the Scheduler) event (which I couldn’t attend—more on that in my next post), helped moderate an official (in the Scheduler) event, went to several “un” events, participated in meetings, went to sessions, skipped sessions for lovely meals with delightful people, partied with the … Continue reading →

My Midwinter Schedule at a Glance

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | January 18, 2012 - 12:26 pm | , , ,
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(I know it’s Blackout Wednesday, but my blog is not really enough of a destination on the web to be worth taking down. Do take a moment to contact your representatives and senators, to tell them how awful this legislation is, please!) This is the conference with the most social activities ever. I’m half-introvert, so this will be a bit of a stretch for me. But it’ll also be awesome! I hope to meet like a million fantastic people—no problem, right?—and get a good start on my Emerging Leaders project (Librarians Build Communities). Btw: I made a map. And I … Continue reading →

CPD23 – Thing 7 – “Professional Involvement is a Marathon, Not a Sprint”

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | July 20, 2011 - 4:02 pm | , , , ,
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Did I miss a week? I see Thing 6 sitting there in Google Reader, but I don’t remember it coming in. :/ Anyway, professional organizations are very much on my mind right now. I am, as those of us on the tenure track sometimes say, “overcommitted to service” at the moment. The problem is, I find involvement in professional organizations very fulfilling, which makes it hard for me to say “no” as often as I probably should. I feel like it’s easier to make a difference in my volunteer work than it is to do so within the confines of … Continue reading →

ALA (post 1 of several)

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | June 30, 2011 - 11:58 am | , ,
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(Rather than doing a mega blog post about ALA, I’ll try to stagger my posts for a few days. It seems only fair.) I haven’t been to a ton of ALA conferences, yet: 2008 Annual in Anaheim, 2009 Annual in Chicago, 2010 Midwinter in Boston, and now 2011 Annual in New Orleans. (Also SLA in DC, ER&L in LA, and AkLA in Anchorage & Juneau.) So far, though, I have to say, New Orleans is my favorite conference location and is going to be tough for future places to beat. The locals seemed really genuinely happy to have us there–they … Continue reading →

My ALA Schedule

  By Coral Sheldon-Hess | June 13, 2011 - 6:56 pm | , , , ,
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Here’s an overview of where I think I’ll be over the course of ALA week. I usually end up skipping out on a few of the sessions I plan to attend, because I overschedule and get burned out. But there’s a lot of good stuff this year (most of it at the same time, *grumble*), so my Exhibit Hall time may be severely curtailed from the year before last… (I haven’t looked at the list of authors, but gosh darn it, I want to meet Neil Gaiman if he’s there. I’ll wait in line and miss sessions if I have … Continue reading →