So I just spent my first day in DC for ALA, although the conference part won’t really start for me until tomorrow. I am currently without my laptop, so I won’t be updating about ALA until I get back next Wednesday. I just wanted to write a short note to let you know that Elizabeth at [...]

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I apologize for the length of the last post, and what is sure to be another one, but so much can be said about library conferences. I took many more notes than I wrote in the blog, but I thought I would spare you (and there are far more articulate session bloggers with excellent recaps). [...]

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SLA 2010 in New Orleans was a wonderful first conference for me. It was mostly all in one place, so it wasn’t too overwhelming (although choosing between one session over another was). I talked to more people than I would’ve imagined. I don’t want to go into every detail of every session, since I am [...]

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I’m gearing up to attend my first national library conference, the Special Libraries Association conference, on Sunday. I recently became president of the UA SLIS Student Chapter of SLA, so I am excited about meeting information professionals from all over the world and benefiting from their knowledge of special libraries (and much, much more!). I [...]

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“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
Those were François Rabelais’ last words. While he was probably referring to life after death, this quotation, for me, appropriately describes how I feel about my upcoming graduation and job hunt. I don’t think I’m being too dramatic by referring to it as a “perhaps”; those of us who [...]

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