If it wasn’t fantastic enough to have dinner with her, Mary Beth Sancomb-Moran is a panel presenter at Friday’s ALA 2008 OCLC Symposium. I recommended her for the panel because of her great mashup work in Minnesota, bringing state legislators into advocacy efforts linking them to libraries in their districts (and READ posters with their own pictures, delivered to their offices!). I’m hoping she talks about her new job tomorrow…basically building an academic library from scratch (truly!). Over dinner she shared her ideas about how we might be engaging WJ members moving forward but more on all that later.
I’ll fill you in on the symposium tomorrow. See you there or at other WJ @ ALA events.
[...] still getting the boa feathers out of my clothes and luggage. It was an added treat to have dinner with Jennifer Peterson of WebJunction, who has become a friend through our many encounters. I wish we loved [...]
I know that OCLC will post archives of the session, but in the meantime, there’s some great followup blogging going on about the symposium. Check out It’s all good, parts 1-2, part 3, and in Blah, Blah, Blah. Mary Ann did a great job!