Tag: conferences

Looking Behind and Looking Ahead: A School Librarian’s Hurdles, Highlights, and Hopes

by Lia Fisher Janosz | Dec 8, 2021 | Leadership & Advocacy, Teaching & Learning

“Where did you go to, if I may ask?” said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. “To look ahead,’ said he. “And what brought you back in the nick of time?” “Looking behind,” said he. –from The Hobbit, by J.R.R....

Librarians, Let’s Confer about Who We Are

by Lia Fisher Janosz | Nov 2, 2021 | AASL National Conference, Leadership & Advocacy

This short volume of a post stands between bookends: #AASL21, which just occurred last week, and the upcoming #VAASL conference, which takes place next week. The word “confer” has been around for over five hundred years; its...