Welcome to Monterey
October 23rd, 2005“I’m so glad that you librarians are in town”, said the cab driver to my colleague and I on the way to the hotel last night.
Why?
“Because this town could use some culture, and better grammar”, he replied.
This was how my conference experience started. After landing in an almost fogged-in airport (We almost didn’t land, having been notified that we might be rerouted to SF, Fresno, or [ACK!] back to LAX), I was dropped off at my hotel (a 1 mille walk away from the conference center), worked for a few hours with Jenny on our presentation and fell asleep, realizing that I had been up for 24 hours.
This morning, Jenny and I moderated a workshop on Advanced Weblogs, where we talk about guidelines, ethics, and other advanced strategies for the library web environment. We used PBWiki for the presentation (follow this here linky dinky). I was very impressed with how the wiki flowed into the presentation and discussion. What’s really neat is that the presentation will be updated with other tools and resources that we discussed during the workshop. The audience members also gave us tools to add to the wiki as well. Talk about collaboration!
Tonight, is the Demo Derby at the Monterey Public Library, and I’ll have pictures and commentary to share from that event. I hope that you’ll be able to join us.
Let the fun and learning begin!