I’ve made it to downtown Denver for the annual SLA conference.
[Note for non-librarians: that stands for Special Libraries Association, not Symbionese Liberation Army. Yes, someone did ask me to clarify once, and no, I do not endorse Wikipedia for anything but the very beginning stages of research.]
I think I got the last room in town. This is a big one, as library conferences go–literally thousands of librarians (and Al Gore and Scott Adams) have descended on Denver over the last 24 hours. Librarians are a funny group en masse–you can recognize them by the matching tote bags and name tags they display everywhere they go (I would assume Gore and Adams do not carry a tote).
If you are a librarian, spend a significant amount of time with librarians, or just like to see footage of the Seattle Public Library, watch this “documentary” on library conferences: March of the Librarians.
If you are not a librarian, you might want to skip it. It’s a long four minutes and fifty-eight seconds. And it will leave you confused and slightly uneasy. Oh wait–it left me uneasy.