I think I mentioned previously that I've been asked to represent public libraries on an Emerging Technologies Interest Group pre-conference panel. If you're a CLA member, you may have received a News Flash last week that this pre-conference session, along with a few others, were closed due to low registration numbers.
Fear not – I've received word from the organizers of the sessions – Amanda Etches-Johnson and Amy Buckland – that the session is going ahead “off grid” (ie. not as part of the “official” CLA conference.) Even better, by going off-grid, the session is now $40 rather than $100.
So if you're going to CLA or if you're in or near Montreal or if you're looking for a weekend holiday at the end of May, why not take a look at this session, whether you're a chiphead or not? (A former boss at the Sask Publishers Group dubbed me a “chiphead”. I tell myself it was a term of endearment and really, she she was married to a chiphead herself so why not? And come to think of it, they live in Montreal now and her chiphead husband helps run a very cool web hosting company that will donate 25% of any web hostings fees they receive back to a charity of your choice!)
Anyhow, I've got some ideas percolating for what to talk about and I'm pretty excited to be part of the same line-up as Jessamyn West. We had a blast at the “Books & Beers” I organized after the Sask Library Association conference last year and I'm not the only one who enjoyed meeting Jessamyn…
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Glad you're still coming out; I'll see you there! Don't think I've seen you since first time we met at OLA when you were a new MLIS student.
Yep, it's weird in this day and age how we “know” people meeting them only 1-2 times or never meeting them at all (as is the case with me and Amy Buckland and with somebody I finally met in person at SLA this week as well!)