Sunday was wonderful. Up a little early due to the time change and off to Bay Books across the street for coffee and free WiFi. (The connection in my room, still wouldn’t work.) Caught up with Karen Coombs for some breakfast at the Bagel place up the street and then some more coffee at Cafe Noir next to the theatre. (They’ve got 54Mbps WiFi but don’t take credit cards so bring cash.) Back to the conference center to pick up my registration materials and badge. A quick check of the Internet connection in the room for my pre-conference worked first try so I could relax and have some lunch with the workshop attendees. There I met up with Karen Burns of the South-West Iowa Library Service Area, and two of her librarian/board members.) Of course, I’m in my white RSS polo shirt and we has mannicotti with red sauce for lunch. Back to my room to change my shirt and I was off the my pre-conference. On the way I caught up with Frank Cervone, Darlene Fichter, and Jane Dysart for a few minutes.
My RSS session went almost flawlessly. Right at the start the bulb in the projector decided it was too old but Bill Spence came to my rescue and replaced the bulb. I ended up with an almost full room of about 30 students and they all asked an amazing number of high quality questions. Finally, one gentleman in the front row raised his hand and said “since you’ve only got ten minutes left, could you just cover the highlights of the last five tools you still have to show?” I’ve never had a workshop go as quickly as this one did. Thanks to everyone who attended. (I’ll post the PowerPoint later but the (ugly) test page that was created to demo many of the tools I covered can be found @ http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/rsstest.html.)
After the session I caught back up with Karen Coombs and Michelle a coworker of Kren’s from University of Houston. A brief hi and chat with Jenny Levine and Karen, Michelle and I caught back up with Karen Burns and her crew for a Greek dinner at Epsilon. I was actually back to my room by 8pm, finished reading Bob Woodward’s State of Denial and off to sleep. (Yep, that’s why I’m up and blogging at 6:30am.
Photos are up-to-date in flickr and the opening keynote’s at 9. cu l8r.
