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What a mixture we were today at the Baltimore Convention Center! ACRL and Mary Kay and teens and tweens cheerleaders, oh my!
I started the day with breakfast with our LexisNexis sales representative. It was nice to catch up with Dawn; although, we both agreed that we might have closed a few restaurants in our time, but this was the first time we waited in line for a restaurant to open!
Most of my day was devoted to my Round-table Subcommittee uties. Round-tables are a way to provide a semi-formal networking opportunity for people who are interested in a similar topic. Prior to the last ALA annual conference, the committee received over one hundred round-table proposals. We read through the proposals; at ALA annual we selected the top 100, sorted them in to tracks and sent our selections to the Baltimore Conference Committee. Today, fifty groups met from 8-9am and from noon-1pm. The Committee was in attendance to provide directional assistance and make sure the conversations were proceeding at a good pace. Both sessions seemed to be successes with a vast majority of tables involved in lively discussion!
Because of the round-table timing, I missed a few sessions that I would have liked to have attended. If I can find the webcasts/powerpoint slides online, I will post the information in this space.
I’m looking forward to the All-Conference Reception tonight at the National Aquarium. Although the forecast calls for rain, I’m hoping to see the Edgar Allan Poe grave-site and Fort McHenry on my way out of town tomorrow morning. I’m stopping by Alexandria for lunch with my cousins and then on down I95/I85 to Winston-Sam!