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I am getting ready for an early flight out of Denver International Airport. I feel like I am in an episode of the Amazing Race as several of my co-workers and I are flying the same airline but are leaving at different times tomorrow and flying through different cities to get to Boston. In one case, my co-worker and I leave within 10 minutes of each other, connect through different cities with different layover times, and arrive within 15 minutes of each other at Logan Airport. I can almost hear Phil Keoghan saying, “The librarians now have to fly to Boston- each on a different flight. Who will arrive and make it to the pitstop first?”

I am thrilled to be going to Boston. It is almost 20 years to the date that I traveled with my mother to check out a college in Boston. If you had told me that I would be a public librarian back then, I would have laughed in your face. Today, I wouldn’t give up my job as an Adult Reference Librarian at the Philip S. Miller Library in Douglas County for the world. (Ok, maybe the winning numbers for Powerball but it would be close.) I am excited at seeing what we are doing to keep ahead of the curve. What are the innovations that show our patrons that we are a 21st century institution? I am especially interested in seeing John Beck’s presentation how to meet the needs of the gamer generation.
Amy Phillips

Tags: Boston, conferences, PLA, PLA2006

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