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Random thoughts on ALA and San Antonio
1. Sun in January! Yippee! 2. A discussion group that has no agenda other than the subject topic can quickly turn into a good hour and a half discussion. 3. In San Antonio, people think 60 degrees is cold. 4. Wifi comes at a cost around here. Only free wifi near the conference was in [...]
Overheard in San Antonio
Lots of dog puns, followed by appreciative groans -several editors, publisher dinner “YALSA Salsa” (the food, or the dance? not sure) -random librarian, YALSA all-committee “So…. are you a librarian?” (pick up line) -random male, Swig, martini bar A great story about a librarian who fell asleep on the shuttle bus and rode around for [...]
Be Safe Out There Kids
I just got back from a wonderful dinner at Acenar (I highly recommend the oyster appetizer [and get yourself a maragarita]) with Chrystie Hill (my co-author) and Patrick Hogan (ALA Editions Head Honcho). While the dinner was stimulating, the real action took place on our walk back to the hotel where we witnessed two citizens [...]
Touring around Texas
This morning I left my house in Jacksonville at 4:30am (yawn!), then flew off to Atlanta to connect to my flight to San Antonio. The flight from Atlanta to San Antonio was filled with a large majority of people going to the conference. Lots of librarians! After arriving in sunny Texas, my roommate Jennifer Cella [...]
San Antonio Here We Come
Just a quick note that the PLA Blog will be out in force at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. We are also celebrating our 1 year anniversary this week. I would also like to schedule some sort of informal get together for anyone who wants to meet the bloggers and talk shop. I assume that [...]
