Last week, the American Library Associate conference was in DC. This is like San Diego Comic-Con for librarians, it’s huge! Our library arranged to let all the paraprofessionals go to the exhibits (free for us) and gave us a half-day of leave to do it in. Those of us planning to go to library school jumped at it.
It was a pretty fun experience, not the first library conference I’ve been to, but the biggest. Here’s what got me most excited on the exhibit hall floor:
Frak yeah.
Even better, they were giving out copies of R.A. Salvatore’s book The Orc King. So I got that too.
please don’t jump me, librarians, I didn’t get to go to those fancy sessions you do…paraprofs at my workplace didn’t get tickets.
Terry July 9th, 2010 at 7:38 am
What a cool booth! And that’s awesome that your library arranged that for paraprofessionals.
Spring July 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
Look at those windows! I’d go in just for the booth.
8-bit Emma July 9th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
That looks like an intensely fun time!
I worked in a library for two years from 1997 to 1999 and helped switch over from the gaylord punch cards to barcodes. It was an intense and fun time. I loved working there!
Revanche July 10th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
My staffer got to attend the ALA (though, I thought it was in May …) and I was Jealous.
Ruth July 10th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
There were some good booths there, but this one took the cake for construction. I saw it before I noticed whose it was.
@Emma That was an intense period in libraries! Gaylord’s still big in the supplies business, I should check our catalog for punch cards.
@Revanche There are a whole set of library conferences in the Springtime…it’s possible that was one of the smaller and more specialized ones.
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