Headed to Minneapolis today for the Public Library Association’s 12th National Conference. Thanks to Rex I have an insider’s list of places to hit up while I’m in town.
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There’s also this list of 150 things to do while in Minneapolis, divided by season. While officially we’ve made our way into Spring, many of the posts to Twitter echo the same sentiment — something along the lines of: “looking forward to such and such at PLA, not looking forward to the cold.” The weather will likely inihibit some of the extracurricular activities for the week — but the forecast really isn’t all that much different than what we’ve got here in Michigan – highs in the 40s with some rain towards the end of the week.
I’m going through the twitter search engines looking for other people posting about PLA. Twitter’s been around for a while and there’s been clamoring for twitter groups — and it’s large events like these that would benefit the most from that feature.
This will be my first national conference of any sort – so I’m looking forward to the experience – and will likely be starstruck by all the nifty librarians I’ve been following for some time on the Internetz. I printed out the Tips for Conference Bloggers [pdf] sometime ago – but never really got around to reading it. I’ll likely just post my notes and have a lot of twitter action. Maybe this will actually be the week I iron out some of the transitional miscues from moving to movabletype 4 – like that archives link on the bottom of this page that takes you nowhere.
Time to get a move on…see you in Minneapolis.
Keep up the blogging and flickring while you’re there – I’m living vicariously here.
i’ve never been to minneapolis but hear it’s a cool city, haha, no i hear it’s a great city, have a great time!