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 Reflection
I
am a member of the Michigan
Library Association
and the American
Library Association,
and I participate actively in the Youth
division and the Young Adult division of
both. I regularly attend and participate
in conferences for teachers and library
professionals.
For
the past four years, I have actively
participated in three professional email
lists: LM_NET
(for school media specialists),
YALSA-BK
(for young adult librarians) and
PUBYAC
(for children's and young adult
librarians), each of which receives over a
hundred messages every day. I find these
lists to be invaluable in solving problems
and staying in touch with other
professionals, and I am constantly
employing ideas and products described by
the other participants in these
"collective brains."
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Samples
of Work
- I
designed and maintain a web site on
Booklists
for Young Adults on the
Web
to support teachers and librarians who
serve young adults. The site has
received over 40,000 hits in the past
year.
- My
posts from the previous several years
can be found in the YALSA-BK
archives.
An example of the kind of sharing of
information we do on these email lists
can be seen here.
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