Adventures of a Midwestern Girl in Sunny, Sunny California

Tuesday morning, I roused myself out of bed to get to the early Emerging Technologies Breakfast.
This was a bit of an odd program. First of all, I understood that the presenter who had a death in the family and couldn’t make it would show a pre-recorded web cast for his portion of the program. [...]

I posted about the Monday night parties before posting about another session I attended on Monday. Whoops! I can’t imagine why my mind strayed like that. . .
Anyway, Monday afternoon I went to a session called Information Professional: The New Private Investigator. This session focused on public records information and was presented by [...]

Monday night was Party Night. There were more parties than I could go to or was invited to, but my dance card was full. I started out at the Thomson Reuters party that was held at the Pacific Science Center. Great food, got to chat with lots of people, and I went [...]

Monday morning was spent in the two-part session: 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes and Web Tools for Legal Researchers. I know the 60 Gadgets session is a popular one, but it was my first time at this session and I have to say I don’t think I’ll go again. There was nothing really [...]

I would certainly never say that the parties are the best part of going to an SLA conference (after all, I want to keep being allowed to go by my employer), but they are a good time.
I started out the party part of the conference with the Wiley karaoke party on Sunday night at the [...]

Earlier this week I was at the SLA conference in Seattle. I took lots of notes, but didn’t have a lot of time to make them into semi-coherent blog posts, what with all the evening activities (see next post). So, these entires are being posted a smidge after the fact, but will hopefully [...]

I wasn’t able to go to the SLA Conference this year (I’m going to AALL this time instead), but I’ve been following the happenings on the blogs I read. I LOVE this comment overheard by Tricia. I think it sums up very well myself and the librarians I hang with.
One hotel worker commenting [...]

As I’ve previously mentioned, I hesitate to write a nasty e-mail about anyone, particularly on a listserv, and I do not engage in flame wars. But, I swear there are some people who test my resolve.
This may not make much difference to many of you, but it really irritated me, so please forgive me [...]

A U.K. marketing dude is saying that Librarians ’should be sexier’.
While I understand that this suggestion might infuriate some members of the profession, it luckily doesn’t affect me. I’m already one sexy bitch, and don’t you forget it!

Some of these libraries are just magnificent; they are beautiful and, I admit, I’m tempted to get the book. But I wonder if it includes the Downtown Reno Library which has what I think is probably the coolest mixed-media integration I’ve ever seen.
Be sure to look at the enlarged image.
Say it with me now: [...]