Soon I will be head­ing to beau­ti­ful Mon­terey for this year’s Inter­net Librar­ian con­fer­ence. This year I’m doing a pre­con­fer­ence on gam­ing with Aaron Schmidt, mod­er­at­ing the pub­lic library track with Michael Stephens, and pre­sent­ing a ses­sion on gam­ing Wednes­day morn­ing. As a good friend of mine always says, pos­si­bly the best thing about con­fer­ences is get­ting face time with friends, so I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing every­one. If you see me there, please don’t hes­i­tate to say hi.

Alter­na­tively, you can come to the open gam­ing that Aaron Schmidt, Michael Porter, and I will be host­ing after the Sun­day pre­con­fer­ence. It’s an infor­mal ALA/Web­Junc­tion thing, cour­tesy of Infor­ma­tion Today.

Start­ing around 4:30 p.m. in the Colton I room, we’ll have Gui­tar Hero (PS2), Dance Dance Rev­o­lu­tion (PS2), and Wii Sports going for open play. This is your chance to beat your favorite blog­ger at any one of these games. Aaron won’t be able to stay long, so if he’s the one you want to take on (and you have my sym­pa­thies if you do, espe­cially in Gui­tar Hero), be sure to come early. I’m pretty sure Library­Man has been prac­tic­ing GH, too. In fact, it’s too bad Rock Band isn’t out yet. Next year.

We’ve got the room until 7:00 p.m., so I can pretty much guar­an­tee a lot of laugh­ter, fin­ger wag­ging, trash talk­ing, and gen­eral mer­ri­ment. Oh, and Flick­ring, too, since we’re also count­ing this as a Flickr and Twit­ter meetup. Might as well throw in video, too, since I believe Mr. Video is coming.

So come one, come all, but come with your game face on, even if just for the pic­tures. Brag­ging rights apply until the next open play!