The final day of the conference came very, very early for those of us who'd closed out the Gold Digger's Ball on Tuesday night... groan! But we were perked up pretty quickly by an amusing (but, sadly, generic) talk by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame. He's a funny speaker - vocal disorder notwithstanding - I just wish he'd tailored it a bit to his audience. With all the Dilbert cartoons featuring librarians, he didn't use a single one...
Afterwards I attended the Astronomy Roundtable I (but missed II, so I hope someone posts a summary someplace!). Later in the evening I went on the tour of the historic Chamberlin Observatory (photos coming soon!). What an amazing opportunity this was - I work mostly with new telescopes, and the chance to see an antique still in use (albeit for public viewing only) was just cool. In addition to a brief history of Chamberlin, we were given the opportunity to view Saturn through the telescope. Squee!
Then it was time to stagger back to the hotel room, finish packing, and try and get some sleep.
A blog to supplement "You don't look like a librarian!"...plus whatever else grabs my attention in the world of libraries.
Showing posts with label Denver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denver. Show all posts
June 8, 2007
SLA Day 3: After PM
After recovering a bit from the Spectacles session, I met with the PAM Book Discussion Group at the Colorado History Museum. As one of the folks who didn't actually finish the book, I didn't have a lot to share, but what I did hear from others makes me determined to finish it!
Then it was back to the Hyatt for the IT/PAM Gold Digger's Ball (my photos here and here). What a blast!
Then it was back to the Hyatt for the IT/PAM Gold Digger's Ball (my photos here and here). What a blast!
June 5, 2007
SLA Day 3: PM
"Spectacles: How Pop Culture Views Librarians" is now over, deep breath! The talk with all the links will be on the web site by Monday.
To the 120+ people who came and shared some time with me, THANK YOU! You were a great audience and I'm glad I was able to provide a break from the conference seriousness. I will be checking into the information that some you came up to share with me afterwards; expect to see future blog postings on them!
To the folks who requested "more analysis" and "more detailed results", I would like to invite you to check out my earlier talks, "You don't look like a librarian!" and "Where's the librarian?"; both of them deal with survey results and data analysis.
And for all of you who've made my head swell with your very nice remarks (Fun! Excellent! Well done!) - Thank you!
Time to go decompress....
To the 120+ people who came and shared some time with me, THANK YOU! You were a great audience and I'm glad I was able to provide a break from the conference seriousness. I will be checking into the information that some you came up to share with me afterwards; expect to see future blog postings on them!
To the folks who requested "more analysis" and "more detailed results", I would like to invite you to check out my earlier talks, "You don't look like a librarian!" and "Where's the librarian?"; both of them deal with survey results and data analysis.
And for all of you who've made my head swell with your very nice remarks (Fun! Excellent! Well done!) - Thank you!
Time to go decompress....
SLA Day Three: AM
Well, I just finished up with the annual Business Meeting, which is always a good way to find out what's going on with the division at large. Our chair surprised some of us with thank-you certificates and pieces of fossilized dinosaur bone - very cool!
While there are events going on between now and Spectacles, I'm not going to go to any of them - I'm going to go back to my hotel and run through the talk a couple more times, do some final tweaking, etc. I'm meeting my moderator at 2pm to walk through the introduction and make sure the tech support for the projector is in place, and then it'll be TIME.
Then I can decompress afterwards - woo hoo! Drinks of some type with Stephen Abram (probably coffee), then the book discussion group, followed by the Gold Digger's Ball (for which I am now a greeter!)
(Gonna be 103° back home today, but only 81° here in Denver. I love the heat, but it's lovely here!)
While there are events going on between now and Spectacles, I'm not going to go to any of them - I'm going to go back to my hotel and run through the talk a couple more times, do some final tweaking, etc. I'm meeting my moderator at 2pm to walk through the introduction and make sure the tech support for the projector is in place, and then it'll be TIME.
Then I can decompress afterwards - woo hoo! Drinks of some type with Stephen Abram (probably coffee), then the book discussion group, followed by the Gold Digger's Ball (for which I am now a greeter!)
(Gonna be 103° back home today, but only 81° here in Denver. I love the heat, but it's lovely here!)
June 4, 2007
SLA: Day Two
After the synergy session today, I spent some time in the exhibit hall and then headed to the PAMwide Roundtable, which I was moderating. I won't post much (it was great, ha ha!) but I did get a great photo of the speakers. Then I was faced with two conflicting sessions: one by Roy Tennant, and one from Google. I started out in one and ended up in the other, then I ran back to the hotel to drop off my out-of-power laptop (I'd forgotten my power cord) and grab some paper.
Back to the conference center for the Technical Support roundtable, which was very valuable and I deeply hope will be on the schedule next year in some form.
Now I'm off for dinner with the Hawaiian Librarians, then plan to split my evening between the PAM Open House and the SciFi Open House... unless I decide to come back to the hotel room and obsessively rehearse my talk one more time...
Back to the conference center for the Technical Support roundtable, which was very valuable and I deeply hope will be on the schedule next year in some form.
Now I'm off for dinner with the Hawaiian Librarians, then plan to split my evening between the PAM Open House and the SciFi Open House... unless I decide to come back to the hotel room and obsessively rehearse my talk one more time...
SLA: Synergy Session
I took much more detailed notes, but I just posted a summary of the opening general synergy session on PAMblog. Now I'm off to try and talk to Clifford Lynch about how we at MPOW utilize the concept of virtual organizations, one topic he brought up and said we need to be working towards. He said he'd welcome examples, so I'm off to give him one before the PAMwide RT starts!
SLA Day One: Sunday
I'm having problems getting access in my hotel, so posts may appear the day after from the lovely Blogger's Lounge that SLA has so kindly provided...
Sunday was taken up with the Newcomer's Lunch (nicely attended in the beautiful historic Brown Palace Hotel), followed by the opening of the exhibits and the PAM board meeting (many board-y things were discussed). The opening keynote session by Al Gore was quite cool - who knew he was so darned funny? And he did a very good job of talking to his audience - no canned speech here, but a speech (primarily politics and the climate crisis, which we were expecting) sprinkled throughout with references to libraries, librarians and our importance in the coming information economy. (Lots of applause there!) I was very impressed with his speech, as were many others (given the many effusive postings on the SLA blog). The evening ended (for me, at least) with the Early-Bird Dinner at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Tasty wheat beer!
Sunday was taken up with the Newcomer's Lunch (nicely attended in the beautiful historic Brown Palace Hotel), followed by the opening of the exhibits and the PAM board meeting (many board-y things were discussed). The opening keynote session by Al Gore was quite cool - who knew he was so darned funny? And he did a very good job of talking to his audience - no canned speech here, but a speech (primarily politics and the climate crisis, which we were expecting) sprinkled throughout with references to libraries, librarians and our importance in the coming information economy. (Lots of applause there!) I was very impressed with his speech, as were many others (given the many effusive postings on the SLA blog). The evening ended (for me, at least) with the Early-Bird Dinner at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Tasty wheat beer!
June 3, 2007
Denver, Day One
So, I'm in Denver now...
After an unfortunate misunderstanding in the TIA airport I missed my scheduled flight; thankfully there was another one to Denver that they were able to get me on. Arrived OK, but too late for the Denver City Tour I'd signed up for with SLA - ah well.
I'm staying at the completely cool and very funky Curtis Hotel on the Sci-Fi floor - I highly recommend this place to anyone who needs to stay downtown! I ventured forth to the 16th Street Mall, randomly turned left, and started walking - and lo and behold, the Denver institution of the Tattered Cover bookstore appeared before me! So I, of course, had to spend some time browsing. They recommended Dixon's for dinner, and I had a very tasty steak there. Then I walked back along the very bustling mall, stopped in to say hi to Kathleen and Terese, and then crashed back at the Curtis.
An unfortunate start to the day, but a very satisfying one.
I'll actually write about today's events later - no weather wonkiness this week!
After an unfortunate misunderstanding in the TIA airport I missed my scheduled flight; thankfully there was another one to Denver that they were able to get me on. Arrived OK, but too late for the Denver City Tour I'd signed up for with SLA - ah well.
I'm staying at the completely cool and very funky Curtis Hotel on the Sci-Fi floor - I highly recommend this place to anyone who needs to stay downtown! I ventured forth to the 16th Street Mall, randomly turned left, and started walking - and lo and behold, the Denver institution of the Tattered Cover bookstore appeared before me! So I, of course, had to spend some time browsing. They recommended Dixon's for dinner, and I had a very tasty steak there. Then I walked back along the very bustling mall, stopped in to say hi to Kathleen and Terese, and then crashed back at the Curtis.
An unfortunate start to the day, but a very satisfying one.
I'll actually write about today's events later - no weather wonkiness this week!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)