My daughter Ilana, a masters student at the University of Michigan School of Information is heading up a student-run conference this Saturday in Ann Arbor. The conference is being run by the student chapter of the ALA American Library Association (she's president) and sponsored by Gale Cengage learning.
She thought it would be a great idea to have a student run conference with student presenters. So she (and the other members of the steering committee) gave it a shot. Build it and they will come. For $5 you get a whole day of workshops, lunch AND a tote bag. They hoped to have 75 people; when they closed registration the other day, they had 88 people! Had to order more tote bags! You can just show up but you won't get a tote bag.
So, if you're in Michigan and would like to have an interesting day on Saturday, show up! Participants include current students and alumni of the Information School, local librarians, some people from Wayne State, even somebody from Kent State in Ohio. The students are very excited and the Information School people are thrilled.
Looks like they have everything in place. They're encouraging first year students to be in front so they'll do it next year. Ilana's teaching one session on GIS resources.
I think this will have some real positive impact for her and her fellow organizers. Because she IS on the job market!
Snowing here. Am hoping against hope that James will come and install our gas fireplace. Cliff (the weather ruler who is in charge of all weather) is scaling back his forecast from 14 inches to 2-6 inches tomorrow. I am just so sure we'll lose our power so I really really hope that fireplace gets installed. Still pretty iffy. Here in Seattle, you are allowed to cancel ANYTHING if it starts to snow. I've cancelled 4 things myself.
So, what did I do? What I always do when it starts to snow, make a pineapple upside down cake!
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