Thursday morning I got up, dumped the hiking gear out of my backpack, filled it up with laptop, notebook, a few issues of The New Yorker, and my ALA schedule, and drove up to Cody to pick up my business cards and catch the plane.

My name is Laura Crossett, and I live and work in Meeteetse, Wyoming, population 351, elevation close to 6000 feet, where I’m the manager of the Meeteetse Branch of the Park County Library System (we’re between websites; hence no link). Our branch serves both the K-12 school and the town of Meeteetse. I am also still an MLIS student at Dominican University in the suburbs of Chicago, where I lived before I headed west to start my job in March of this year. I have three classes to go to complete my degree, and, thanks to the wonders of technology, I’ll be able to do them from Wyoming.

This is my second ALA annual conference and my first time blogging for PLA, though I have had my own blog for a little over a year. Thanks to Andrea for the invitation to blog for PLA, and thanks to you all for reading.