Comments on: missing ALA this year

By: Shannan

Shannan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:46:21 +0000

Oddly, I didn’t miss it at all this year. Unlike your horrible experience last year (ouch!) I actually enjoyed Anaheim more than I’ve enjoyed ALA for a few years. And the last time it was in Chicago I had a terrible experience – though not as bad as yours in Anaheim! The worst for me was Orlando where I had the fun experience of an “attempted strong-arm robbery” when someone tried to mug me in the parking lot of my hotel.

Anaheim though, I had fun – it was the first time I really took some time out to be a “tourist” and went on one of the Hollywood tours for fun and I was staying in one of the hotels *across the street* from the convention centre. Too often I’d go to conference and never get away from the convention centre and convention hotels – and never really experience the cities they were in!

I think I was maybe a bit burned out on ALA too. I was never working at a library that supported going so I was usually the only one from my library there. And now, since Anaheim, I’ve moved to Canada so maybe I’ll try CLA in Edmonton next year! And for now I’m off to check out those links you gave! Thanks!

By: Michael Golrick

Michael Golrick — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:57:58 +0000

It was great fun. Twitter is wonderful and the photo/tweet tracker by Heather is way awesome!

By: Simon Spero

Simon Spero — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:05:35 +0000

Code4lib 2010: Pyjamas only dress code?

I think I’m still wanted by the ALA for pre/post combination violations (where they tried to bill me nearly a year later for being a student + member, rather than a student member. At best, they could have gotten restitution for precisely the amount they already had, less costs).

By: Dan Kleinman

Dan Kleinman — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:56:37 +0000

“my credit card number was skimmed” — so sorry about that.

A new Twitter hash tag picked up where the old one was cut off. See @ALASecrets2009

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:38 +0000

It was fun. (I already left, so it’s in the past tense for me.) Handing out zines was a blast, the Library Society of the World meetup was a good time. The secret twitter account was a riot for a short time, but went the way of all public anonymous stuff (thanks for for finding that link to the Washington City Paper article). The only other notable thing you left out from my point of view was the ALA Unconference, which I will write more about on my own blog.