If you want to grow in your library/information-based profession, and you don't want to spend a lot of money, here are ways you can do it for free.
Criteria for using a Web Service at Your Library
Keeping Up When You Don't Have the Time (The Shifted Librarian)
If I just had 15 minutes each day (Information Wants To Be Free)
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
A model for the future of online learning (Information Wants To Be Free)
My Reflections on Five Weeks and Librarianship (A Wandering Eyre)
Random Thoughts on Five Weeks (Caveat Lector)
Reflections on Five Weeks to a Social Library (Library Web Chic)
Making Five Weeks to a Social Library happen: the down and dirty (Information Wants To Be Free)
Want to implement social software at your library? (Information Wants To Be Free)
Missouri River Regional Library (MRRL) Library Learning 2.0
A Conference "Session" Unlike Any Other (A Wandering Eyre)
Bigwig Social Software Showcase (Pattern Recognition)
BIGWIG Social Software Showcase (Library Web Chic)
It's Not a Secret Any More (Pegasus Librarian)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Session (A Wandering Eyre)
Steve Garwood's Screencasting Wiki includes amazing resource page for screencasting
CILIP's bi-annual conference. A group of us set up a wiki to report on the sessions.