LOEXcess
Another excellent LOEX day…for a day and a half conference, I have to say this is one of the more practical and useful conferences I’ve been too. So many ideas to mull over and consider. A brief recap of what I went to yesterday and today for now and then I will elaborate later: Friday–I [...]
LOEX-a-palooza
Wow–14 hours of library instruction and information literacy today. But first things first…here is a picture of a cute wood duck (did I mention the exotic bird aviary here and the duck pond area?) No, his head isn’t on backwards and, yes, he has both of his legs–he’s just hiding one in this picture. I [...]
Small world II
Tonight while out on the Bahia Belle, a woman came up to me and said, “Hi Celia, I’m Jenn.” I didn’t have a name tag on and I wondered why she thought she knew me. She explained that she was in the online Business Reference course I teach. It’s all online and not every student [...]
Safari vs. zoo
While on the dessert extravaganza boat tour outing tonight, I met a Canadian librarian who had an interesting analogy/metaphor about what we do as librarians these days, given the changing technological environment. She said that we used to be more like zoo keepers–everything had it’s place and we gave tours and followed a simple map. [...]
Why wifi is a good thing
Sometimes wires bog you down and make things complicated…when I first arrived tonight I looked for the ethernet cable that was supposed to be in my room…nothing. A call to tech services (support numbers were readily available and I got through to someone immediately, luckily), had me looking behind my TV for the cord. Here’s [...]
Small world
This doesn’t really have anything to do with info lit, but I thought I’d share anyway…most people who know me don’t realize that at one point in my life I was known by numerous young boys as the “Leather Lady.” Now, before you pick up the phone to call America’s Most Wanted, let me give [...]
Resort blogging
As I’m thinking about what last-minute things I need to do before I leave for LOEX tomorrow, it dawned on me that if I’m planning to blog about the conference I should probably make sure there will be easy internet access. Otherwise, why even bother to lug my laptop across the country? I couldn’t find [...]
No sleep ’til the red-eye flight home
It will be a busy, busy few days in San Diego. The schedule for LOEX is non-stop. Here’s what my days will look like: Thursday: 10:45am Leave Chicago 1:00pm Arrive San Diego 7:00 – 9:30pm Dessert Extravaganza and Boat Cruise (“For Extreme Conference Enthusiasts”) Friday: 7:30 – 8:15am Breakfast 8:15 – 8:30am Welcome & Announcements [...]
