ALA 2007

The ALA Annual Conference is coming up soon, and I’m going! I’ll be in DC from late on June 21 through the morning of June 29 and will be staying with friends from CMU. I’ve really enjoyed visiting DC the two times we’ve been, and I’m looking forward to it. The only thing that stands between me and DC? A long week of work.

Since I’m taking summer classes, I’m trying to get as much stuff done as possible before I leave so that I don’t have to worry about it while I’m gone. This means that the last week has involved a lot of reading, writing, and work. I’ve also been making repairs to my outfit and jewelry in preparation for attending the honor dance for Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect. She will be the first Native American president of ALA. I’ll be going to the dance at NMAI on the 22nd, and the inaugural dinner on the 26th. It’s too bad so much of the events at the conference happens at the same time. I really would like to go to all of it. Well, maybe not *all* of it… but a lot of it.

In the meantime, I have about 150 pages of reading and one assignment to complete for genealogy, three (luckily, short) papers to write for my reference class, and a site visit plus report about it to do for records management. It’s going to be a busy 7 days…