Author: KraftyLibrarian

Keeping Up With Events at MLA

We have created several different ways for you to keep up to date with information and events at MLA. 

The Official MLA Blog– We have 21 people who have volunteered to dedicate their time to writing and posting information about the conference.

MLA20o9 Twitter Account – Follow live discussions, comments and questions that are happening at the conference on Twitter.  You don’t need a Twitter account to do this but it is helpful if you do.

If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can go to http://twitter.com/mla2009 and watch the discussion.

If you do have a Twitter account and you want to participate, the easiest method is to follow MLA20o9. Then go to TweetChat.  Login using your Twitter login and password and then type in mla09 for the room.  TweetChat will allow you to watch and (participate if you want) all discussions that use the #mla09 hashtag. 

  • REMEMBER to use the hashtag #mla09 when posting something about MLA on Twitter. 
  • If your Twitter updates are protected on your account (this feature is under Settings) then others will NOT be able to view your tweets and you won’t be able to ask questions or participate in discussions very effectively.  You can always protect your tweets after the conference.

You can use Twitter’s web page to participate (you have to hit Refresh to get updates) and there are several software programs that make the Twitter experience a little more interactive.  Some of like  twhirl and TweetDeck must be installed on your computer.  TweetChat is a web program (no install required) that allows you to watch a specific discussion on Twitter.  For those of you with iPhones Tweetie ($2.99) and TwitterFon (free) are two popular apps.

MLA 2009 Flickr Group – View photos taken at the meeting.

If you aren’t at the meeting you can view the photos by going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/mla2009/

If you are at the meeting and taking pictures, please consider posting them on flickr under the MLA 2009 Group http://www.flickr.com/groups/mla2009/.  If you have a flickr account click on Groups and then search for MLA 2009. You must post your photos first to your account then add them to the Group by clicking on each phonto then clicking on the icon “Send to Group” which is located just above the picture.

Blogging at MLA

Applications to be an Official Blogger at MLA were due Friday April 24th. I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger. I am excited because we have 21 great people who will be blogging from the MLA Annual Meeting. It is my sincere hope that our posts will help keep people in touch with information and events at the meeting.
So without further ado, here are your bloggers:
  • Ellen Aaronson
  • Alison Aldrich
  • Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
  • Shamsha Damani
  • Melissa De Santis
  • Jacque Doyle
  • Rosalind Dudden
  • Marcia Francis
  • Karen Heskett
  • Annie M Hughes
  • Mary K. Joyce
  • Michelle Kraft
  • Brenda Linares
  • Laura McLellan
  • Bart Ragon
  • Melissa Ratajeski
  • Gabe Rios
  • Heidi Schroeder
  • Emily Vardell
  • Rachel Walden
  • Beth Whipple

Go to the MLA Official Blog to see their picture and read their bios.  If you are in Hawaii and happen to see one of us, say hi.

Krafty Librarian Under Construction

As you may or may not have noticed my blog hadn’t been updated for about a week or so.  It turns out I have been working towards migrating my blog from Blogger to WordPress.  It was a little bumpy and I didn’t know that it would happen when it did so I wasn’t able to give any advance notice.

Thankfully Blake at LISHost has been very helpful getting things straightened out.

Bear with me while I begin repopulating the blog with my old posts (hopefully the comments too).  Things will still be a little bumpy but I hope to have things ironed out soon. 

In the meantime don’t forget to go to the MLA Official Blog http://npc.mlanet.org/mla09/ for news and information at the Annual Meeting.