New networking group for the San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley Teacher Librarian Network had its first meeting yesterday at the Woodward Park Library in Fresno. This group was the brainchild of Maria Petropulos, district librarian for Fowler, who proceeded to drag Margaret Baker (Selma USD) and myself into the mix.

I think it turned out well. We had a total of a dozen people there and they want to meet again. Liz Dodds (Fresno USD) has now set up a Ning group for us San Joaquin TLs. I would encourage to go take a look and consider joining.

Valley LMT Network

What is the Valley LMT Network? Downstream I wrote about a networking event that I am pulling together with Maria Petropulos for January. After talking some with CSLA, we have decided for the time being for it not to be an official event.

That being said, we believe that the information that we get from this event will guide us to what our next CSLA event might be.

More details as I know them.

LMT Networking

Do you live in the greater Fresno, CA area? Do you sometimes wish you had more LMTs with whom to network. Maria Petropulos (District Librarian, Fowler Unified) and I are pulling together a networking event for January 24. It will be held in a room at the Woodward Park Library.

I should mention that Maria is my professor at Fresno Pacific University and this came out of discussions in that class as well as online (as well as with some other district librarians).

So what does the greater Fresno area mean? My guess is that it is open to anyone that can actually get here. I know that many of you are the only LMT in a district, so this provides you with an opportunity to reach beyond your school for support.

It is unclear who the actual sponsor of the event is at this moment as we are still fleshing out all of the details, but there will certainly be some relationship with this region of the California School Library Association. I should know more soon.