ALA 2010: LJ's Pick of Tuesday's Top Tweets--Final Tallies, Red-Shirted Rally, and Tales from the Travel Weary
By Rebecca Miller, LJ Jun 29, 2010As many weary ALA-ers departed DC, others stayed to keep up the good fight for library funding by donning red t-shirts for a rally in the Mall and talking to pols at legislative day.
booksue Waiting 2 c Rep. Neal (MA) 2 talk abt LSTA. Hope it goes well! #LAD10 #ala10 #yalsa
JenHoward Final #ala10 attendance figures are in. Attendees: 19,513. Exhibitors: 6,688. Total: 26,201.
JustinLibrarianWhat I learned most at #ala10 ? The community that I serve is my #1 priority. If it ain't about them, I've lost. (thanks @TaraLSF)
casshart Washington State delegation rocked at Library Advocacy Day! A sea of red shirts. Intro'd Bernadine to young libns. Hot as Hades. #ala10
polianarchy This #ala10 jobhunt webinar is a disaster. We can barely hear the presenter b/c there are SO MANY attendees.
emilyreads Events like #ala10, esp. the N/C banquet, make it very very hard to consider careers in other fields. #otherindustrieshavenofun
madiganreads Saw a stack of paperbacks on the floor @ airport bookstore, nearly took one, thinking they were free. Been at #ala10 too long.
billhemmig Union station full of people wearing red Vote for Libraries tee shirts. Cool ending to #ala10
muzikmakers I miss the librarians already. Who are all these regular business people walking around? They're so blah. #ala10
ala_altaff Marilyn Johnson, Mary Boone, Peggy Barber, and ALTAFF Executive Director Sally Reed at Library Advocacy Day http://twitpic.com/2109ns #ala10
hallojen Back from #ala10, feeling simultaneously tired and re-energized, and madly in love with the whole kids book industry.
marcelaphane There really are not nearly enough people here. Why wasn't this open to the public? Pull in DC lib patrons! #lad2010 #ala10
politelibrarian "What do we want?! Quiet! When do we want it?! Now!" #ala10 #advocacyday #rally
FSkornia Rep. Reed-The cost of ignorance is much more than the cost of libraries #ala10 #lad2010
marcelaphane "Libraries help people survive." -Lauren Myracle at #lad2010 #ala10
greenharr I wanted to leave today, Delta, not at dawn tomorrow #ala10
Marilynajohnson #ala10 hanging in site of the Capitol w/1000 librarians & more pouring in--keep libraries open...they're the greenest things going
galecengage The buses are headed to Nat'l Library Day rally! One of the first - w librarians from 10 states! #LAD2010 #ala10 http://twitpic.com/20zgom
bookbloom Woman in red rally t-shirt just stepped on my local bus. Immediately, we bonded. #vote4libraries #ala10
harlemlibrarian YouTube is the 2nd LARGEST search engine in the world #ala10
loidagarciafebo Ready for Library Legislative Day! #ala10
rodneylippard Final attendee count over 26,000. #ala10
Visit ALA Annual Conference News for ongoing coverage of the conference by the editors of Library Journal and School Library Journal. Find shots of various ALA 2010 conference happenings on LJ's Flickr page.
