November 20, 2007

Thanksgiving

It’s been quiet around here because I was lucky enough to be invited to speak to some fan­tas­tic librar­i­ans at the Hawaii Library Asso­ci­a­tion Con­fer­ence, so I was able to sneak in one of the most amaz­ing vaca­tions I’ve ever had (the pic­tures from which you can see here, although I’m still upload­ing them). Big thank yous to Dave Brier, Becky, and Vicky for invit­ing me and all of the help they pro­vided for my ses­sions. My “talk with slides” is avail­able on my pre­sen­ta­tions wiki as a PDF.

Hawai­ian librar­i­ans rock, espe­cially Amy, who had my favorite quote of the con­fer­ence. While talk­ing about allow­ing her high school stu­dents to game in the com­puter lab dur­ing recess, she said, “I refused to say no,” and it’s paid off big time for her. She’s made con­nec­tions with the kids that she wouldn’t have oth­er­wise made, and now some of them con­fide in her because of this.

Other trav­el­ers are also home now, includ­ing our Dutch friends, who have posted the final video of the Shanachie Tour. Well, of this year’s Tour, any­way. ;-) We all miss you guys very much — I sure do — but you did an amaz­ing thing and inspired a lot of librar­i­ans here.

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6:19 am Comments (8)

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  1. Well,thank you for shar­ing your ses­sion. I am a post­grad­u­ate of library sci­ence from China. Your blog is wel­come with librar­i­ans and stu­dents of this major. I will learn from you!

    Comment by catherine — November 21, 2007 @ 6:31 am

  2. I unfor­tu­nately don’t remem­ber the email of any of the librar­i­ans I know per­son­ally, so you get this link instead. *grin*

    http://gone-byebye.livejournal.com/81754.html

    Comment by Garrett Fitzgerald — November 21, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

  3. Thank you for the pho­tographs of the amaz­ing tex­tures and con­trasts of Hawaii. I enjoyed see­ing them so much. I espe­cially like the tree ferns and the turtles.

    Comment by Carisse Berryhill — November 23, 2007 @ 9:36 pm

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