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Today is the last day of ALA Midwinter meetings for me. I am exhausted but energized. I will write a more detailed report of the weekend shortly, but for any interested readers, here is the list of meetings I attended:
- ACRL RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee: Thesaurus Subcommittee
- ALCTS CCS CC:DA Joint ALCTS/ACRL Task Force on Cataloging Rules for Early Printed Monographs
- ACRL RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
- ACRL RBMS Public Services Discussion Group
- ACRL RBMS MARC for Special Collections Discussion Group
- ACRL RBMS Information Exchange
I also met my RBMS mentor on Friday and had a delightful dinner at the Island Hopper with many past Spectrum scholars on Saturday. Librarians are wonderful to be around; I think I have made a great career choice.
January 16th, 2005
Although I have not finalized my schedule yet, I will be at ALA Midwinter next week. I was very happy to receive my badge and exhibit hall pass last weekend, and I am looking forward to attending some of the RBMS and ALCTS committee meetings and finally having an opportunity to meet other Spectrum scholars. If you will be in Boston for the conference and would like to meet, please comment below or e-mail me.
January 6th, 2005
December 15 is the deadline for paper and session proposals for the 2005 conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth. The conference will be held August 5-8, 2005 in Milwaukee, and this year’s theme is “Children’s Worlds/Children in the World”. [via H-CHILDHOOD list]
Note: The SHCY website lists the dates of the conference as August 4-7, but recent announcements list August 5-8. Check with SHCY for more information.
November 23rd, 2004
When I spotted the Hello Kitty posters while walking through Harvard Yard today, I knew that they could only mean trouble. I avoided reading them for this reason. Sadly, my attempts at avoidance were futile…Cynthia Rockwell just revealed the awful truth on her weblog, and now, I am faced with a real dilemma. Conference on kawaii culture versus conference on blogging–which should I choose?
HPAIR and the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies are sponsoring a one day conference on kawaii culture tomorrow, April 17. This was the type of conference that I wanted Harvard to hold five years ago when I was a full-time graduate student in East Asian studies and everyone laughed at me (and generally, failed to take me seriously) because of my research interests. Things change, I guess.
(Hmmm…I checked with Hello Kitty at Sanrio’s fortune corner, hoping to get more guidance on this dilemma. Kitty was vague in her characteristic way: “Lacking motivation? Get up early and exercise! Go jogging or do some stretches.” And, apparently, my lucky item this month is a glass craft kit…the one craft kit that I do not own…)
April 16th, 2004
At last night’s Harvard weblog writers’ meeting, we discussed the possibility of having a session on librarians and weblogs at the upcoming BloggerCon. Jessica, who is advocating for this, has posted a preliminary proposal on her weblog and a more formal proposal will be posted to the BloggerCon weblog soon. If you are interested in attending a session like this and/or have ideas or suggestions, please comment on Jessica’s weblog and on the BloggerCon weblog (once the proposal is posted there).Conference organizers are concerned that there is not enough interest in this topic, and the session will not happen unless there is proof that people will attend and participate. The librarian session did not happen at the first BloggerCon, so it would be great if it happened this time. Don’t let the comment about the session being geared toward special librarians discourage you. Archivists, special collections librarians, curators, and information professionals of all types are encouraged to attend and to propose ideas.
If you have not registered for the conference yet, be sure to do so before registration closes. The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on April 17, and it is free and open to the public.
March 12th, 2004
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