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Erratum

June 23, 2007

I just noticed that my last posting is time stamped 5:41 AM. Yikes! It was more like 8:45 AM. The computer terminal from which I’m posting this message says that it’s 3:51 AM so please disregard the time stamps on these postings from the Conference.

ALA

June 23, 2007

by CRD of PaLA

ALA has a lot of acronyms. There are 2 pages in the Program Book devoted to defining them. At yesterday’s Conference 101 program, they told us that there is a game in the Exhibit Hall called Spin the Wheel of Acronymns. I might want to check that out because I learned what quite a few of these acronyms mean at the first program that I attended this morning, RUSA AND ASCLA 101. My next stop is ACRL 101. I do know that acronym stands for Association of College & Research Libraries.

Conference 101

June 23, 2007

by CRD of PaLA

Conference 101

I got to this program 10 minutes before it was scheduled to start and there wasn’t a free seat available. The room was set up with 15 tables, 10 chairs at a table. At least 50 more people eventually were seated around the room. Some dragged in chairs from another room. The President of the New Members Roundtable gave a little commercial about joining the Roundtable. Then a guy named Michael (I didn’t quite catch his last name) went through the program book telling us page numbers for all of the important things that we should know about–maps, schedules, freebies. He said that, being the librarian that he is, he organized all of the cards that he got in the mail from exhibitors by booth number. Silly me, I wasn’t even going to bring mine! Diner was great. We ate at a tapas restaurant. It’s a good thing that we had reservations because it was very crowded.

ALA Conference

June 22, 2007

by CRD of PaLA

Well, I’m here at ALA. Margaret Craft and I came together. We checked in to the hotel, but we can’t get into our rooms until 4:00pm. We walked the 2 blocks to the Convention Center. It’s 3 blocks long! After we picked up our badges, we wandered around a bit and found the Internet Cafe. I’m going to Conference 101 at 4:00pm which is a program for first time attendees. This evening we are being taken to dinner with one of the library’s vendors.

Attending ALA

June 21, 2007

by CRD of PaLA

I will be attending the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Since this is my first conference, I thought that some of you might be interested in my experience. I’m not there yet and I’m already feeling a bit overwhelmed by how large it is. There are so many programs, meetings, and events that ALA has created an online Conference Planner to help you schedule your days.