ALA2008

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ALA - Anaheim -- Appreciative Inquiry

This workshop was set in the frame of "assessment." "The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question." Peter Drucker

Rather than asking what went wrong, ask "how can we get significantly better results?"

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ALA - Anaheim -- Grant Opportunities

Two opportunities you might want to look into:

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ALA - Anaheim -- Saturday Highlights

Started the day with Legislative Committee which included information on telecommunication and broadband (i.e., regional cooperatives, rural broadband deployment, network neutrality),reauthorization of LSTA, e-rate, and copyright.

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ALA - Anaheim -- Continuing Education

Attended Competencies for Your Staff: From Implementation to Integration, a CLENE-RT preconference session. Highlights:

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ALA - Anaheim -- Mash-Ups

Mixing It Up: The Mashed up Library was a symposium sponsored by OCLC at the ALA conference in Anaheim. Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School for Digital Business, shared his perspective in his presentation "Managing Challeges of Instituional Innovation." Innovation in an institution is difficult because of its values, traditions, cultures, and bureacracies.