LibraryTechtonics

I’ll be at Midwinter in Seattle, blogging for myself and blogging/podcasting for PLA, from Jan 19 - Jan 23. If you’re in town and want to hang, you can try sending me email. If you happen to have my mobile number and want to text me, please include your name and number in the text message, because my phone is totally mental when it comes to sender information.

Here’s the somewhat flexible plan for the weekend:

Friday, Jan 19
6:00a ET: Depart Boston Logan airport
11:27a PT: Arrive at Seattle airport
1:30 - 3:30p PT: Forum on Library Education, Rooms 602-604, WCC
4:00 - 5:30p PT: Salaries and Status Brainstorming Session, Room 607, WCC

Saturday, Jan 20
10:30a - 12:00p PT: Not Your Dad’s Interface: The Next Evolution in OPAC’s and Search, Metropole Room, Fairmont Olympic Hotel
12:00 - 1:00p PT: LUNCH (open)
2:00p PT: Interview w/ David Pogue (author, The Windows Vista Missing Manual), recording for podcast, location TBD
8:00p PT: OCLC Blogger Salon, Room 3028 (OCLC Blue Suite), Sheraton Seattle. You should come, too!

Sunday, Jan 21
8:00 - 10:00a PT: Public Library Technology Interest Group (really, really tentative), Room 309, WCC
12:00 - 1:00p PT: EBSCO Publishing’s Public Library Database Luncheon, Westin Seattle
1:30 - 3:30p PT: PLA Service Responses Discussion, Room 608-609, WCC
3:30 - 5:30p PT: President’s Program, Grand Ballroom C and D, WCC

Monday, Jan 22
8:00 - 10:00a PT: GIS Discussion Group and GeoTech Committee, Room 206, WCC
10:30a - 12:00p PT: Emerging Technology Interest Group (will try to go, but would love some backup coverage), Room 2B, WCC
12:00 - 1:00p PT: LUNCH (open)
1:30p PT: Interview w/ Tony Small (senior director of books division, Amazon.com), still acquiring permission to podcast, meeting at Amazon.com booth
6:00 - 8:00p PT: Berkshire Publishing Group & BookExpo America reception “Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love”, Seattle Public Library

Tuesday, Jan 23
1:17p PT: Fly out of Seattle airport
12:02a ET: Arrive at Boston Logan airport

I’m also going to try to squeeze in an interview with Leslie Berger about her new agenda plan and how it dovetails with the new PLA Service Responses, and perhaps have one of our bloggers who is working the Washington Library Association booth record some stuff for a show floor podcast. And, somewhere in there, I hope to get at least a little sightseeing done (more likely I’ll be casing the joint for a trip with my husband sometime ;D).

I’ve never been to Seattle before, so I’m all sorts of excited. I even picked up some travel books (as I’m wont to do when I go to conferences) from my library to help me out:

• Fodor’s Seattle
• The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City’s Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual by Paula Gilovich, Traci Vogel, and the Stranger staff
• The Food Lover’s Guide to Seattle by Katy Calcott

I must say, while the wiki is nice for it’s collaboration and everything, a travel guide is just more portable, even given my web-enhanced phone. Yet another simple reason books won’t be going out of style *just* yet.

Also, if you have any good recommendations for tea places, I’m all ears. And, if you want to have tea with me while I’m in Seattle, drop me a line and let me know.

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