Marbled Paper Endsheets

I love image banks. I love images. I think most people do, and it shows in social media. How many people prefer reading a paragraph post on facebook to looking at an image? I used flickr for this thing and looked at photos of one of many obsessions: library card catalogs. I haven't used flickr for quite some time, so it was fun to dig around in there again. I recently heard a talk at a library conference called Visual Literacy: From Fake News to Fair Use, by Emily Barney, librarian at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Part of her job is to find original sources of images for faculty, and she talked about how she does that, using reverse image searches. I have been trying out her tactics, and it's been interesting to see how people can distort an image for their own use.

I am going to my first national library conference (PLA), and I'm very excited. My current position, Information Services Librarian in a consortium, finds me actually working with vendors, which means I will meet a few people in person with whom I have been chatting by email. I am hoping to bring back a few tips on staff training and community involvement, as well as some STE(A)M and program ideas  for our region. I am excited to visit Philadelphia for the first time, and plan on doing a little sight seeing. I am even signed up to throw axes as a fund raising for Every Library. Trying to decide which t-shirt to accompany my buffalo plaid, for representing Minnesota: