Spent most of yesterday on the other side of the island in the shadow of some FABULOUS mountains (photos coming soon) at the Hawaii Library Association annual conference. Getting there via bus + bike was an adventure in itself, and it turns out there are major disagreements between Google Maps and Reality over whether certain small roads actually exist or are just overgrown and barricaded tracks through the mountains inhabited by slavering Rottweilers.
But we got there, more or less on time, and it was beautiful, and we were truly the dork library couple as the following photo attests:
(photo by Andrew Wertheimer)
I sat in various sessions by various librarians and learned a lot about how libraries are working to incorporate new technologies to be more useful/relevant/far-reaching in their communities. Sarah of Librarian in Black talked about (among many other things) free software that could help libraries do more with less. I’ll get links up to some of it eventually, but for now I’ll stick to pictures. Speaking of which – just loaded the mountain photos from my camera:
Incredible, yes?
