While Infopeople continued responding to new requests for sessions of Cheryl Gould’s “Fully Engaged Customer Service” workshop in libraries throughout California, attendees at the American Library Association (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Conference in Denver earlier this week were talking about a different aspect of reaching library [...]
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Denver’s Central Library this morning delivered the ultimate example of great customer service as the American Library Association (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Conference was nearing its conclusion: a newborn girl.
A security officer, assisting a woman who had gone into labor, put his coat on the floor so the [...]
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For those of us who have attended many Infopeople training sessions, the simple question “How do you train staff?” was guaranteed to grab our attention during a session at the American Library Association (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Conference here in Denver this morning. And when the topic under discussion—the newly [...]
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Infopeople instructors helped introduce many of us to Web 2.0. Our colleagues at OCLC this afternoon upped the ante by hosting “From Linking to Thinking: How We’ll Live When Information Surrounds Us” at the American Library Association (ALA) 2009
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The title and idea behind Gail Griffith’s current Infopeople workshop—“Community Engagement”—came to mind again less than a few hours after I arrived here in Denver this afternoon to attend the American Library Association (ALA) 2009 Midwinter Conference.
Griffith, as mentioned in an [...]
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