We’re spending a [slightly shifted] weekend in Chicago, Saturday to Tuesday. Like last year, we’ve got a visiting student on tow. This time, our excuse for visiting is to see Patti Smith at the Vic tonight. (last year it was spring break) We arrived on Saturday, doing the half car, half train thing on Metra […]
I’m here in the Lone Star State for a librarians’ conference – actually just the tail end of a librarians’ conference. I signed up for a half-day post-conference workshop, and went to one session + the closing keynote – and then the workshop. I got in about 2:30 on Tuesday, and decided to take the […]
I’m in Minneapolis to take Al to probably the 2nd to last of his appointments to fill in his full sleeve. We’re staying at the Aloft Hotel again, (tho we didn’t have as magic a room no. and I couldn’t get the room heat to go on – it was 66° and dropped to 62 […]
It was only Mark & I for dinner our 1st night at the librarians conference, so I took him to Tom Douglas pizza place, Serious Pie. The downtown one was too full, so we walked to Westlake.
So, like I said, we spent Saturday night in Minneapolis. Ethan wanted to meet up with his friends and go to the Gopher hockey game, so it was just me & Mark for dinner. We ended up at a brewpub called Republic. We were on the early side, so we could make our 7:30 play […]
We’re breaking up the winter doldrums with an overnight trip to the Twin Cities, to take Mark’s son back to school. We haven’t started on our quest for dinner yet, so no food pictures, tho we do have brunch reserves at Hell’s Kitchen tomorrow (BTW – huge oversight on their part that the mobile website […]
Not sure if it actually is, but that’s what Meredith said yesterday when we were driving here. “Here” is LaCrosse WI and the conference is the Wisconsin Library Association. The library school does a booth, we’re doing resume reviews, and all the usual networking, schmoozing, recruiting – I’m not presenting at this one, though. There […]
On Saturday, I think probably the best conference programs for me were the Ben Schneiderman keynote and a session on public library website redesign, taking a broad view – looking at service redesign, what services the library can provide through its website, not simply improving the look of the site – tho that was a […]
I started writing this sitting in my third presentation session at the 2012 LITA Forum (library conference). But that program was pretty interesting so I stopped. Now, on the other hand, I am watching an earnest librarian showing us her slides in the presenter mode. She did just say “I know this is kind of […]