A surprising* number** of people*** are upset by the idea of a Code of Conduct/Statement of Appropriate Conduct/Anti-Harassment Policy (which I’ll refer to as “a CoC” or “CoCs” for the rest of the post). And, although I am unequivocally in favor of CoCs and generally frustrated when they are received…
If you’re just joining in, here are parts one, two, three, and four. A number of other comments came up, which I think merit repeating, but which I wouldn’t say were themes, per se: There are people who join professional associations for help getting jobs – networking, getting better known…
If you’re just joining in, here’s the intro, plus parts two and three. “It’s easier than ever to create engaged groups of people without a significant financial or time expenditure.” – Jacob Munford The theme I’m calling “the greater good” was more of a driver than I had expected,…
If you’re just joining in, here’s an intro and the previous theme. “I prefer to pay dues for organizations that I’m actively participating in (presenting or attending conferences, committee work). If a year goes by and I haven’t done anything with the organization, I drop the membership.” – Karen Keys…
Part one of this series is here. “I appreciate the bigger ethic of these organizations promoting my profession, but they also don’t help pay my rent so I have to take it with a grain of salt.” – Kim Baker Perhaps it’s appropriate that the issue rising to the…
I asked a question (and shared my answer) here, back in September: why do (or don’t) you pay dues to professional organizations? I got answers about a wide variety of associations, but my particular interests were the American Library Association and state library associations. I got more comments than I…
I spent this weekend at the annual face to face meeting of the Alaska Library Association’s (AkLA’s) Executive Council, which is made up of our E-Board (President, Treasurer, etc.) and the chairs of all of the association’s committees, roundtables, and chapters. It’s a great group of people, with a lot…
Over the course of the summer I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to several different Codes of Conduct for various groups/events. And always, always there is someone who, with the best of intentions (and I mean that)*, suggests something along the lines of “let’s simplify this by taking out the…
Today a very sweet coworker told me that I have seemed “a little burned out,” lately, which was awfully generous: it would be more accurate to say that I appear to be trapped in an inescapable miasmic funk of epic proportions. All is not well. I am not well. My…
My last post was a serious downer, and I apologize for that. I debated skipping the medical stuff, but I really felt like I needed to justify my decision to back out of ALA—if not to everyone else, then at least to myself. (And enough people have asked “What did…
