This weekend was not terribly illustrious. The ASIS&T Pacific Northwest Chapter Annual Conference was on Friday and Saturday, but I only went to the Saturday morning sessions because I was too energy-less on Friday. I wouldn't even have gone on Saturday morning, I think, if I hadn't said I would volunteer. I'm glad I went, because the presentations were interesting (especially Misty's talk about internationalization of websites, software, and other interfaces).
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Today I went neither to class nor to work but to the PLA National Conference, which was in downtown Seattle. I picked up lots of free books, spent money on three others, and went to three fairly interesting sessions. I won't say that I was as excited about the whole thing as I was at the ASIS&T conference in the fall, but it was okay. I'm glad I went, if only because I would have regretted missing it, but I don't feel that I'm missing anything by not going back tomorrow or Saturday.
The most controversial session I went to was about the Patriot Act. Obviously people have very extreme opinions, and it was kind of interesting to see the FBI officer defending his agency and the library attorney telling us what we should do to protect our patrons against invasions of their privacy.
Just got home home from the ASIS&T National Conference in Long Beach, California. If you don't know where that is (hey, I didn't before), it's south of Los Angeles. What a weather change! It was lovely and sunny, and apparently I missed a pouring storm on Monday. (Jeff sat down in his philosophy class in the afternoon with a sigh, and his prof said I've seen people wetter than you today.
Jeff replied, This is my second set of clothes.
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I don't have much time to write at the moment, but I wanted to note that I am indeed back and that I had a lovely and inspiring time and that conferences are summer camp for grown-ups. You go to activities all day, meet people, promise you'll stay in touch, and see them all next year. Yeah?