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<\/a><\/p>\nOur kids looked for her and even put out a live trap, but no luck. Mark found the cat within 20 minutes of arriving at our house, hiding under the next door neighbor’s side porch. So leaving conference early = totally worth it.<\/p>\n
For my last conference day, I did two booth shifts, with a breakfast break out by the lake out behind McCormick, in the Chicago Fallen Firefighter’s Park<\/a>, tho I did not hear about AZ Firefighters<\/a> till this morning. At noon I was supposed to have a lunch meeting with the outgoing committee chair I am replacing. We rode the bus up Michigan Ave. and that took so long that we just had our meeting on the bus; no time for lunch. Went to one last BIBFRAME<\/a> talk, Eric Miller<\/a> on subjects.<\/p>\n For my very last ALA-related event, I stopped by the AIA\/ALA library architecture awards<\/a>. They’re celebrating 50 years of the awards, so there was a reception at the AIA Chicago offices where my friend Joan works. I missed the actual award presentations because of going to bibframe, but saw all the maquettes, and talked to a few people: a filmmaker doing a film about public libraries in the digital age, and an architect who used to teach library design for my library school. And caught up with Joan a bit – Mark texted me that the cat was found while I was there and she suggested he get kitty microchipped. And got bread & cheese & a small white wine for lunch. Perfect.<\/p>\n I went to the Art Institute for the Impressionists & Fashion show<\/a>. Nicely hung, but I’m not sure astro turf was really the right flooring choice for the gallery about fashionistas in the park. And even tho it was a Monday afternoon it was crowded – it is<\/em> 4th of July week, afterall – and I hate how the audio tour makes people clump.<\/p>\n