notes from VLA

Too busy to write a narrative, but here are my notes from the sessions I attended at VLA! I’ll add links to the session presentations once they’re posted on the VLA site.

• Motivation 101 with Nan Carmack (slides here)
  • Motivation 3.0: doing a task for the love for the task
  • In order to motivate your employees, you need to do 3 things: your motivational strategy must develop, involve, and validate your employees
  • How to involve your staff?
  • Think of things that would motivate you to be more excited about your job
  • Think of things your department could implement that would help motivate
  • No one can make you feel unmotivated without your consent
• Free Tech Tools for Better Library Instruction by Jennifer Whicker, Kathy Shields, and Amy Pace
  • Use bubbl.us or Mindomo for students to write their sentence, pick out keywords, and write synonyms
  • Jing for annotated screenshots (e,g., for use with virtual reference)
  • lino.it for digital corkboard
• Teens Can Read, But What Comes After the Young Adult Titles (slides here)
  • Display of adult crossover books in YA section

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