ALA Conference 2009: LJ's Pick of Sunday's Top Tweets
ALA Annual Conference: The Twitter-fest continued through Sunday, sharing news, tips, and lessons from sessions
Rebecca Miller -- Library Journal, 7/13/2009
The Twitter-fest at the #ALA2009 hashtag continued through Sunday, sharing news, tips, and lessons from sessions. LJ watched for the tweets that best shared the scene with telling anecdotes, insights from panels, and vivid moments of conference life.jmccommons is at ala questioning consumption. hey librarians, do you really need all that stuff? #ala2009
KateSherrill Asked for a glass of water at OCLC's Blog Salon and was handed a bottle of Evian... 'cause that's how OCLC rolls. #ala2009
kimll Shuttle from Sheraton at noon = absurd. Shuttle bus leaving MCP at 3pm = awesome military discipline. Are they responding? #ala2009
lisacarlucci bookmobile parade! #ala2009
mfrisque A librarian should want to party ... want to bring about and understand the changing library. #ala2009 #lita #dutchboys
KnitChick1979 Oak park il won the bookcart drill team. Des plaines got second. I wanted des plaines to win but i was in the minority. #ala2009
mfrisque We need to bring in more international librarians. We need to learn global.#ala2009 #lita #dutchboys
davidleeking If you want to innovate like DOK, you have to hire innovators #ala2009 #shanachietour #dutchboys
jen_young At next gen catalogs session. Why doesn't ALCTS have a next gen ig? It's not all about the front end. #ala2009.
leachea_79 Just ran into my first boss. I was a 15 year old shelver. She remembered me-15 years later. #ala2009
MaskedLibrarian Mr anti-twitter librarian, you are a man with a fork in a world full of soup. #ala2009 @alasecrets2009
turrean Why can't vendors just give you a price on their product? Why do I need a sales rep to call? Just tell me how much $$! arrrgh at #ala2009
debdegeorge Cataloging not the problem; ILS design is, y'all. #ala2009
librarienne RT @antaeus: 77% of the time teens are using a single device - not multitasking. Age that multitasks most? Us. #ala2009 [but who is us?]
sloedjinnfizz This session made me cry. I hope i never experience a university-wide tragedy that i would then have to document. #ala2009
ksattler Roy Tenant's ttt - the water trends - the flow, the cloud, and the rain... #ttt09 #ala2009
dakane So far seems more like tech worries than tech trends. #ala2009
sbwesty I think Google makes us smarter too. #ttt09 #ala2009
brewinlibrarian We're addicted to vendors in libraries. The work of the 21 century is for libraries to develop and own our own tools. #ala2009
scottyrader Junot Diaz canceled. Scott sad. #ala2009
aburke8 "Fair Use is only a legal position" not a right #ala2009
hollychrome Junot Diaz not appearing due to transortation problem. A better excuse than Godot at least (and Penguin awesome for comping books) #ala2009
ksattler open everything is next for #ttt09 #toptech #ala2009
sbmarks Tim Spalding: Just because it doesn't work in your head, doesn't mean it won't work in reality. #ala2009
anitazavrrr So, there's a pulitzer prize winning author missing here. Anybody seen him? #Ala2009
Abbieprime Listening to Tamara Kennelly describing artifacts left in aftermath of VA Tech shooting in W184. Heavy but beautiful stuff. #ala2009
rgthomasca thinks the ALA is a disgrace. http://tinyurl.com/alacaves #ALA2009
LorreS I'm getting way too old to sit on the marble floor to get wifi and power *grump* #ala2009
gencarter Marjorie Liu: still resistance frm publishers to show characters of different races on her covers; hard 4 her (& me) to understand #ala2009
emnica Michael Shapiro from WebJunction just compared social media to Indian buffet: make plan, prepare 4 unexpected, avoid indigestion. #ala2009
julidavis Placement Center let down but I did have a f2f with King Co to drop off my app and resume. #ala2009
evanstruble big THANK YOU to the cute librarian who let me charge my iTouch with his laptop! #ala2009
Sigafoos It's time to play the 'look at your nametag to see if I know you but not long enough to be weird if I don't' game! #ala2009
tadawes Should ALA spend money on advocacy or on streaming video of Council meetings #ala2009
Greylin #ala2009 Web 2.0 smackdown - Big idea - access, collaboration, exploration, creativity, web 3.0, pulling things together.
lizzybees Bad idea to eat lunch here. $16 for a burger, fries, and a soda? #ala2009 #fail
agrundmann Siva V.: privacy is about power to manage your reputation responsibly #ala2009
mfrisque Are there types of Internet traffic that should be prioritized? Example telemedicine. #ala2009 #lita
shinylib good point from the crowd... no matter what your instruction plan, make sure you can revise on the fly. rigid = fail, mostly. #ala2009
bookletting Charlaine Harris would "Love" to have one of her books banned (laughter) #ala2009
oodja RT @tadawes: Councilor Margolis: Why hasn't ALA taken active stance on Google Book Search settlement #ala2009 | Good question! Any answers?
natenatenate Going to miss some #ala2009 today to go see a Cubs game
amlibrarian kids whose behaviors = totally safe everywhere except online = myth #ala2009
mslalowe #ala2009 Average tme you get to meet w/elected official: 7.5 minutes
mojo_girl Caught up on #ala2009 tweets- must remember to tune in realtime or suffer scrolling for sessions- librarians talk about drinking alot!
cyetain #ala2009 Growing set of pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/groups/alaannual2009/
geniealisa Watching 3 women demo to customers while 4 fat guys in suits bullshit on a couch at the back of the booth. #ala2009
klaula 365 library days project: 365 images of the library - can also be an historic document for local community #ala2009
flexyourinfo Current stats: 5450 tweets from 942 authors #ala2009
readingsarah "if ikea & bn had a baby that's what we want library to look like. #tag #ala2009"
practicalkatie Consensus will never lead to change #ala2009
reffervescent Awake and actually slept well! Looking forward to sessions today now that feet have somewhat recovered. #ala2009
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