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Overheard at ALA

I jokingly confess to my audiences that I’m a sometimes eavesdropper at conferences! You learn about the profession and how people feel if you listen closely. The most telling and useful was a snippet I heard in the Skywalk at PLA: “Everytime people really like something, we get rid of it.”

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ALA Twitter-Effect

I’ve had a great time watching the folks twittering the ALA conference this week. For my ALA TechSource post, I thought I’d look at how Twitter helped, hindered (?) and augmented the conference. I have some ideas but I want to see what anecdotal evidence will do to my thinking. If you want [...]

IronMan!

 

  

IMG_2623, originally uploaded by Hidden Peanuts.

 

Library Society of the World wins the “California Dreaming” conference game team competition

 

 

Library Society of the World wins the “California Dreaming” conference game team competition, originally uploaded by ALA – The American Library Association.

 

Michael and I scouted out the convention center yesterday

 

 

Michael and I scouted out the convention center yesterday, originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian.

Oh! I should have done this post first! Hello to all attending ALA2008. Please say hi if you see me out and about. I’ll be attending the Movers & Shakers lunch, the Scholarship Bash and the LIS [...]

I think it’s the ALA Twittering Librarians!

 

   

I think it’s the ALA Twiitering Librarians!, originally uploaded by mstephens7.

 

well that was the fastest and easiest ala checkin I’ve ever been through!

 

  

well that was the fastest and easiest ala checkin I’ve ever been through!, originally uploaded by lauren_pressley.

Nice!

Greetings from ALA 2008!

 

  

I think we’ll see many shots of this the next few days, originally uploaded by mstephens7.

Pizza place very close to the Convention Center.