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ALA Learning Authors Nominated for Nine Edublog Awards

December 9, 2010 By

The ALA Learning authors have been nominated for a total of nine Edublog awards!

Best Group Blog

  • Learning Round Table
  • Bobbi Newman, Libraries and Transliteracy

Most Influential Blog Post of 2010

Best Individual Tweeter

  • Buffy Hamilton, @buffyjhamilton

Best New Blog

  • Bobbi Newman, Libraries and Transliteracy Blog

Best Resource Sharing Blog

  • Sarah Houghton-Jan, Librarian in Black

Best Librarian Blog

  • Buffy Hamilton, The Unquiet Library
  • Bobbi Newman, Librarian by Day

Best Educational Podcast

  • Maurice Coleman, T is for Training

Please support our authors and vote. Voting ends at 12 pm EST Tuesday, December 14, 2010. Only one vote allowed per IP address.

To read the full list of Edublog nominations, visit: http://edublogawards.com/

The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2005 in response to community concerns relating to how schools, districts and educational institutions were blocking access of learner and teacher blog sites for educational purposes. The purpose of the Edublog awards is promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media.

Lori Reed

Lori Reed, Managing Editor of ALA Learning, has more than 15 years experience in training and is the Learning & Development Coordinator for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library where she oversees the learning & development of a diverse group of staff at twenty libraries. Lori’s passions are performance consulting, learning strategies, and e-learning. Lori is coauthor, with Paul Signorelli, of Workplace Learning and Leadership: A Handbook for Library and Nonprofit Trainers. Lori also blogs at LoriReed.com and can be reached at lori[at]lorireed.com.

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Twenty Questions with Bobbi Newman

January 14, 2010 By

1. Your One Sentence Bio

  • I’m not that kind of librarian.

2. Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name?

  • Yes, I blog at Librarian by Day. The name is a reference to Barbara Gordon and the all the non-traditional roles librarians fill these days.

3. What is your professional background?

  • I’ve worked in libraries since I was 16.  Before I got my MLS I worked with engineers, and my first job after graduating was working with engineers, for some of you this may explain a lot. :-)

4. What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes?

  • Staff, patron, and other libraries that ask me to in a wide range of subjects – reference in the digital age, social media, web 2.0, gaming, time management, tech tools etc

5. What training do you think is most important to libraries right now

  • We need to step up staff training, every staff member should feel comfortable offering basic assistance with any service or technology the library offers.

6. Where do you get your training?

  • Anywhere I can! conferences, webinars, colleagues etc.

7. How do you keep up?

  • My feed reader, Twitter and Facebook.

8. What do you think are the biggest challenges libraries are facing right now?

  • We need to shift our foundations so change is easier and faster.

9. What are biggest challenges for trainers?

  • shortage of staff, time, money and in some cases the unwillingness of trainees

10. What exciting things are you doing training wise?

  • The library has a gadget garage that the FIT (Future Innovation & Technology) Committee is working with to help staff become familiar with new tools, investigate potential new services and circulation to patrons.

11. What do you wish were you doing?

  • more training for everyone

12. What would you do with a badger?

  • feed it chocolate cake

13. What’s your favorite food?

  • Italian

14. What’s your take on handshakes?

  • firm is a must

15. How did you get into this line of work?

  • by luck & love

16. Why is the best part of your job?

  • making a difference, see “it” click whatever “it” is

17. Why should someone else follow in your shoes?

  • I’m going to have to agree with Pete on this one – blaze your own trail

18. Sushi or hamburger?

  • depends

19. LSW or ALA?

  • both

20. What one person in the world do you want to have lunch with and why?

  • Barack Obama I heard him speak when he was campaigning and it was amazing, I’d just like to have a conversation with him

Bobbi Newman

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