ajmatt blog

(1) Denver is a nice city. Drivers don’t come screaming around corners or run red lights (or over pedestrians for that matter). It’s not humid, and it’s more eclectic, diverse and green (recycling green) than D.C. I can almost pretend I’m in downtown Seattle if I ignore the references to altitude on every block and the absence of hills.

(2) I often forget how young I am for my profession. At a certain meeting today (covering the fascinating topic of microfilm digitalization), I was easily the youngest in the room by 20 years. When I begin to doubt my place at such a meeting, among people with so much more experience than I have, I remind myself that librarianship is very much a second career field. Those of us who go straight from a B.A. to an M.L.S. are in the minority. And then I feel okay about being out of place, and sometimes I even speak up. Or, at the very least, I take really good notes.

(3) Quote of the day for those who aren’t crazy about leadership: “Unless you’re the lead dog, the view is always the same. But you can at least run along beside the lead dog and keep everyone from running into a ravine.” I must add this was said by an important librarian from the Atlantic Journal-Constitution who happens to have a cute southern accent.

I’m off to a Lexis-Nexis party at the Denver Art Museum where, rumor has it, the main attraction will be chocolate martinis. I’m in it for the after hours art viewing.