Today’s stories include: LIANZA 2012, Chris McClement, school librarians, future of ALA, social media competencies, and more.

New Zealand

• L2 – new blog post on social reading from @L2_S2S. (BoK3)
• The Programme Committee for the 2012 LIANZA Conference wants your suggestions for Keynote and Invited Speakers from @lianzaoffice. (BoK2)
• New APNK blog post, People’s Network people – Chris McClement (an interview and “get to know you” with our boss)  from @PeepsNetwork. (BoK9)

Worldwide

• Interesting/scary. Read the debate SLANZA people: “Are School Librarians Expendable?” NY Times via @bridgy_s. (BoK1)
• Libraries are about people – so where’s the personality? from @theREALwikiman. (BoK9)
• Future of ALA? (For those who missed it, the Future Perfect report to #alacouncil) via @wawoodworth. (BoK1)
• Library Management and Entropy: The Information as Management Text via @chblibraries. (BoK9)
• ALA Membership Blog: Best of the Best Member Blogs – Monday from @amlibraries. (BoK2)
• Social Media Competencies for Librarians from @jaygee35. (BoK7)

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