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Score!

Two full days into the conference and I’m finally told that there’s free wireless in the lounge. Guess where I am now…

It was a great afternoon and a better evening. The sessions went well and we quite interesting. (o.k. I think most anything blog-related at this point is interesting.) I also had a short meeting with the Editor-in-Chief of Information Today about my next book idea. He likes it and he’s passed around the proposal along to five big wigs in the library world for their input. (Sorry, can’t remember any names but I recoginzed four out of the five he mentioned.) He promised to send me their responses back in the next week or two.

Dinner was an absolute blast. 14 library bloggers including The Shifted Librarian, and Chris of L.A.C.K. were there. Jenny decided to show off her Treo 600 and I think she’s convinced me to get on this weekend when I inally get rid of my finally. I asked her if ‘that picture’ she had taken of me was going to appear on her blog. She said of course. I meant the one she took of me and my tablet. She meant the one she had taken of me just minutes earlier on her Treo. (Hey, when I’m at sea level I’m allowed on drink.)

Durring the conversation one person mentioned that during a presentation I didn’t attend today someone asked if anyone was blogging this conference. The presenter did a quick search and they found this blog, specifically the entry relating to The West Wing comment from D. Scott Brandt posted last night. Man I’m gettng more press by just being here than I did four years ago when I presented. I’m starting to get a little freaked out.

A bunch of us ended up getting ice cream (yes, in DC in March) from a little shop down the street. Turns out we were being served by the ‘scoop freaked.’ (His term not ours.) It started out by one of our group asking “hey, is that more ice cream” pointing at another selection around the corner. His response, “no, that just looks like ice cream.” The conversation, though funny, went down hill from there.

Well, some others just arrived and want me to join them. Later…

Published by Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

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