I have a lot going on at work right now, which is one rea­son I haven’t been post­ing much to my blog. I’m going to talk a lit­tle more about MPOW here, as some of my projects are kick­ing into gear and will have some vis­i­ble results dur­ing the next few months. The gam­ing piece is get­ting really inter­est­ing, and I hope to have some big news to report soon.

In the mean­time, though, we’ve opened the Call for Pre­sen­ters for the 2008 ALA Tech­Source Gam­ing, Learn­ing, and Libraries Sym­po­sium which will take place on Novem­ber 2–4, 2008, in the Chicago area. We’re cap­ping the event at 350 peo­ple, and last year we sold out at 300, so sign up early when we open reg­is­tra­tion on Mon­day, May 12.

We’ve already got an excit­ing pro­gram shap­ing up. Our keynote speak­ers include:

• Marc Pren­sky, author of Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning
• Dr. Lawrence Kut­ner, author of Grand Theft Childhood
• Andrew Bub, Gamer­Dad

We’re also going to have another open gam­ing night for video and board games, some hands-on work­shops (and not for play­ing videogames), and much more. If you want to be part of the pro­gram, the dead­line for sub­mit­ting a pro­posal is June 15, 2008, so don’t tarry too long. Thank yous to ACRL, ALSC, and LITA for col­lab­o­rat­ing with Tech­Source on this year’s Symposium.

More on GLLS2008 as it devel­ops, because we’re going to a new level with it this year!