ALI Episode 4, July 2009: Professional development without a budget

We talk about ALA, conferences, current teaching stuff, and professional development with little or no budget. Links to some of the things we mentioned:

• ALI Zotero group
  
• Call for Speakers --> Computers in Libraries 2010. Information Fluency: Literacy for Life. (submissions due september 15th)
• Library Society of the World site, their blog, and on Friendfeed where a lot of the chatter takes place
• ALA electronic conference participation
• Free webinar software-- dimdim, vRoom by Elluminate, yugma
• Some of the local orgs and groups we mentioned: Atl Area BIG, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (CJRLC), WRLC, Atlanta Emerging Librarians
• Online instructional resources like STS' Information Literacy wiki and Libsuccess Wiki

Join us for future episodes! If you’re interested, please post a comment on the Adventures in Library Instruction blog or email us! We’ll do it as a Skype discussion or you can record a segment all on your own.