#pla08 Published a final PLA blog post: "PLA 2008: That's a Wrap!" http://twurl.nl/sepqfe ...moving on toward CIL and (eventually) Annual.
#pla08 back in MI from Minneapolis. I miss that city already. Thanks for the good times.
#pla08 Jan Sanders says she can't follow that act. It "butchered some sacred cows," Jan says, but it was great.
#pla08 Paula sees libraries as touchstones for our communities, and she really admires us. :)
#pla08 What is metallurgy? Is that when u sneeze when ur near tin foil? - Paula Poundstone
#pla08 Paula can't believe that PLA hasn't taken a position on dog earing! It's a huge issue! :D
#pla08 Paula asks the PLA exec director: How do u feel about dog earing. :D
#pla08 So, she wrote her book about other historic figures, making it impossible NOT to talk about her own life.
#pla08 Paula has OCD that manifests itself as not being able to shut up. But writing her book about herself was hard. But tangents are easy.
#pla08 Library meetings must have a Guantanamo element of torture to them!-Paula
#pla08 It's like Paula is having this great big hysterical conversation w/the audience.
#pla08 Apparently we don't organize ourselves very well at all when we go to these things... She found NJ in more than one section. :D
#pla08 She felt a whole lot safer when she thought we had a realiable system to store them, b4 she realized there was so much unrest.
#pla08 Paula feels safe in the library, since we have all those ideas...
#pla08 Paula probly figures we want to talk about sex or something different, you know, we do these conferences to "get away". :D
#pla08 Paula's reading Guns, Germs, and Steal. She says it's taking forever because it's so *dense*.
#pla08 Paula Poundstone never realized that, when it came to Dewey, there was such a struggle to figure out where 2 put everything.
#pla08 Paula loves her Santa Monica Library. But she doesn't much care for manga + graphic novels, esp 4 school reading use.
#pla08 Paula Poundstone is hilarious. It's like her stand-up, but specifically for librarians.
#pla08 Sitting in the opening remarks of the closing session. Not getting wifi in the Auditorium.
#pla08 going into closing general session...anyone else? looking at you @andreamercado
#pla08 off to librarian as serial killer and superhero session
#pla08 Any PLA goers up for a Tweetup? Or is everyone's social dance card full?
#pla08 Feel free to use the contact form on the PLA Blog to get in touch with me. Or, @ or DM me on Twitter. :)
#pla08 We've wrapped up the Virtual Conference production-side. Thank you to everyone who attended! Keep up the chatter in the forums!
#pla08 bailing on virtual happy hour so I can get my work done and get out of here for a real drink.
#pla08 headed to origami for sushi dinner
#pla08 Technozoo presentation: "folding at home....your PS3's night job... we're still learning what to do on the Internet."
#pla08 Whoah. I just acquired a Zoom H2 from the Learning Times guys as a thank you. Shock & awe. Geek heaven. *gleem*
#pla08 if you don't deny access to those who are destroying the library... you will deny access to your regular patrons.They'll stop coming.
#pla08 WDG: slides would really help. he was asked but said "hope you brought your notepad"
#pla08 Sitting outside the Virtual Conference Studio, trying really hard to get pics/vids/posts up.
#pla08 he says don't ever tell anyone to calm down... it's like gas on a fire. But he says _settle_ down is OK?
#pla08 People _curse_ libraries? Oh my....