ACRL Requests

Hi all,

I am going to ACRL Convention next week, and wanted to offer my "delivery services" (via my suitcase) if anyone needs me to visit any vendors, etc. to bring back information. Also if there are any particular sessions that you've heard about that you want me to try and get to, please let me know. LibGuides is one topic I will be bringing some info back on (at Eva's request), and I'm also planning on going to luncheons with EBSCO and Springer. I'm happy to try to get to anything, so please just email or call.

Solinet Web 2.0 Conference

Solinet is sponsoring a one-day conference "Libraries in a Web 2.0 World"
It'll be held on Wednesday, September 24 in the Clayton State University, Center for Continuing Education in Morrow, GA.

GPC get-together at ALA?

David Free and I were wondering if anyone else from GPC libraries is going to ALA in June, which is in Washington D.C. If so, it would be fun to get together and have dinner, dessert, or drinks on Sunday evening, June 24th. I think at this point anytime after 5:30 is sounding good. You can post here or email me or David. Thanks and hope to hear from you soon. (For those of you who can't make it to D.C. this year, I am planning on taking copious notes so I'd be happy to share with anyone who is interested. Maybe I'll even post something on the blog if there's anything that I think everyone would enjoy reading about).

Looking for a conference to attend?

I found a handy list of library-related conferences at:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM

ALA Award Winners

gpc award winners!
Originally uploaded by dwfree1967.

This is pretty late news, even by off-line standards, but congrats to Lois, Eva and Sherry on their award for the Library CSI Orientation program. Very cool! They received the award at ALA in New Orleans last month. Thanks to Amy (or Pete) for the photo as I wasn't able to make it to the awards breakfast.

I was able to make it to dinner every night, and here are the photos to prove it.

I have lots more ALA/ New Orleans photos on my Flickr site and more info about the conference on my blog too if anyone is still interested in month old conference news! :)

ALA Bound?

If you're going to ALA next week and would like to get together for dinner or coffee or something lemme know. I'll be in NOLA through Monday afternoon. Should be an interesting conference!

Computers In Libraries

keynote
Originally uploaded by decatur library.

Greetings from chilly Washington, DC. I'm at the Computers In Libraries 06 conference. Been to some great sessions about search engines, wikis, federated search etc. The keynote session today covered current and potential library-esque applications for handheld devices. And just saw Lorcan Dempsey from OCLC talk about some very cool stuff they're doing with WorldCat metadata.

I'll post more details about some interesting stuff when I get back or later on if I get a chance. And the presentations are usually online too at some point. Plus there are several folks blogging the conference in way more detail. Check out the CIL wiki bloggers section for links and more info.

Joy says "hi" too!