The American Library Association Conference 2008: California Knows How to Party
Expect quite a few videos over the next few days. Now that I’m home (alongside a computer with a quantifiable increase in gigabytes) I’ll be editing a lot of the footage I took. This one recaps my wanderings, my time at the Blogger Meet-Up (room and refreshments provided by Feiwel and Friends) and the Hyperion cocktail hour that followed.
Reason I am glad I am home: I forgot I even had Julie London singing the Mickey Mouse theme. Joy.
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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That was great!
Isn’t Jim Averbeck cute? It’s always a happy to see more of the guys out and about at these things. And yeah, baby, California really knows how to party. Looks like so much fun!
Wow Betsy! That was really fun to watch – and I can only imagine how it felt to have watermelon tossed on you by Mo!
Thanks for the video!
Alan
OMG, I’m NOT supposed to say “Kidlit” in front of librarians?
I’m done in this biz 😉 Fun videos. and thanks to you because I got to be there and see pals from afar right on my laptop.
Oh, you can say “kidlit” in front of some librarians. Just not academics. I do not even kid.
While I do recall some affronted posts in the past about this phrase on child_lit, others there revel and go even farther with it, say Beverly Lyon Clark with Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America. I’d say there are those among us (teacher,librarian, or academic) who hate the phrase, others who love it, and others who could care less. (PS: I’m sitting here with the pup now; we’ve been home for around three hours now — let me know if you want to come by to meet her!)
Awww! Yes, we must find pup time so that we can officially meet. I love Clark’s book (as you could probably tell), but I’ve seen people respond in horror to the phrase in blog comments as well. I think the dislike is fading, particularly since the blogosphere has adopted the term as their rallying cry. Just the same, coward that I am I tread softly with the phrase and use it sparingly.
Tupac and Biggie!
YES!
California has changed you Betsy.