Children’s Librarian Travels to ALA
June 22nd, 2007 by Kristen KirkKristen, children’s librarian, here. This is my first time writing for the PLA Blog. I’ll be attending a number of sessions and events over the next four days and look forward to sharing them with you. Traveling, for me, always starts out with a shoe crisis, especially when I’m headed to a conference. I covered all my bases by over packing; confident I was prepared for everything. (I even remembered to pay the bill I had to before I left.) Of course, nothing ever is perfect so about halfway here I realized I’d forgotten a belt. And then I hit horrendous traffic in the middle of D.C. And then I missed my turn and spent about 45 more minutes driving around, trying to find my hotel. (One of the best things about my hotel: I didn’t even have to make an extra trip to the conference center to pick up my book and badge because there’s a handy desk just downstairs.)
Now, here I sit in wonderful air conditioning, digesting my thoughts on the documentary The Hollywood Librarian. Interviews with librarians were interwoven with film clips to celebrate the profession. The film made me laugh, nearly cry and get angry. The best bits were, perhaps, the brief highlights of different specialties of librarianship, sending up cheers from the audience. It is the audience that made the movie special. There’s nothing else like being in a crowd of librarians, the inspiration and camaraderie more than make up for all the hassles of travel.
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