Attending ALA’s 2020 Midwinter Conference

This blog post was written by Graduate Research Center Operations Manager Jonathan Tomes. More than 20,000 attendees converged on the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 2020 American Library Association Midwinter Conference on January 24-28. This was my first year to attend an ALA conference. The main exhibition hall was packed with booths…

Recent Professional Development Opportunities for Poage Library Staff

This post was written by Collections Services Archivist Amanda Fisher. Introduction One of the foundational tenets of professionalism here at Baylor University and the W. R. Poage Legislative Library is professional development through continued education. Director Mary Goolsby eagerly promotes and supports an atmosphere of learning and personal growth befitting of a university setting. As…

Archivists Meet in the Sonoran Desert: Society of Southwest Archivists 2019 Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona

This blog post was written by Amanda Fisher, Collections Services Archivist. Recently, archivist Amanda Fisher attended the Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA) 2019 annual meeting in Tucson, centered around the theme of “Crossing Borders, Blazing Trails.” The conference opened with a plenary address by Michelle Light, former vice president of the Society of American Archivists.…

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