So I’m in New Orleans for the librarians’ conference. We were last here in 2006 – the first big conference to come in after Katrina. The opening general session started with inspirational videos, like a high school age girl singing “I need my library”. I suppose I should’ve been more inspired, but it’s hard not […]
First, WiLS OCLC Peer Council. The conference was Tuesday, but our friend and colleague Eric Childress came in on Monday, gave a little talk at the library school, and we took him out for dinner. The Old Fashioned was too crowded, so we went around the corner to Underground Kitchen. Eric, who lives in Columbus […]
I had walked up to Balboa Park using the Google directions, and that sent me past a community college AND a big high school, at about 3:30 in the afternoon. Just as I was starting to hate all teenagers, and thinking that we should really do as the Brits do (the ones that can afford […]
Saturday night was our big night out for dinner with librarian friends. I chose the restaurant – Bice – and mostly it was a good choice. I didn’t like my salad all that much – it was a chopped salad, a pile of dressed, chopped vegetables, with a few cherry tomato halves and shaves of […]
We ate at Cafe Chloe last night, a tiny French Bistro in San Diego. I ate two dishes from the smaller plates selection: frites with trio of sauces, and scallops with candied squash. The sauces were [basically] ranch, a spicy ketchup, and mustard. The scallops came with not only the cubed, candied squash, but also […]
I’m in San Diego for the ALA conference, and I was struck by how space-age their convention center is – you’d think it was built in the 1960s, but it seems to be the same age as John – construction began March 1987. I used the movie camera in my iPhone to try to capture […]
So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata […]
Somehow, the last time I posted was a whole week ago, and I’m not sure why that is. In between then and now, we went to the premier concert of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and tried out a new-to-Madison restaurant (#21 of a Chicago area chain). Nothing that we ate there – a pasta bolognase, […]
So the last conference food event was the OCLC President’s luncheon, always on the Monday of ALA – they herd several hundred people into a dining room in one of the hotels. The speech is usually a bit of a repeat of some of the things we hear at the update breakfast on Sunday, but […]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a […]