EDITOR'S NOTE
Busy in the Big Easy
by Brandi Scardilli
 I was excited about the ALA Annual Conference this year—the opening session featured Michelle Obama, and I had never been to New Orleans before. Not only did I get to breathe the same air as one of my heroes, but I also got to explore a city with tons of history and character. The beignets (see photo) were just OK. But the trip was great!
You’ll learn more about ALA and other conferences throughout this issue. In “Teaching Emerging Tech at NCSU Libraries,” I talked to the winner of the ALA/Information Today, Inc. Library of the Future Award about her university’s workshops on technology skills (page 1). Starting on page 10, Terry Ballard takes us to the best ALA events, and I share the sessions I enjoyed. Sophia Guevara uses her new column The Help Desk to tell us about some tech tools she discovered at SLA (page 17), and I fangirl hard over Carla Hayden’s SLA speech (page 13). In “LIDA 2018: Exploring Underserved Communities,” Emil Levine reports on the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, where sessions helped attendees understand the needs of populations such as the homeless, LGBT+ individuals, and Middle Eastern advocates for social justice (page 1).
In We the People (page 6), George Pike catches us up on the Supreme Court decisions that may have flown under the radar in light of the Justice Kennedy retirement announcement.
Happy reading!  |
