accidentally slept in this morning and missed a bunch of sessions. i took the canal streetcar down to the riverfront streetcar and made my way down to the convention center just in time for the jazzy networking lunch. people sat together with the people they knew and so i found a lot of clustering. after walking around with my plate for a while, i just finally sat down at the first friendly table i could see. it turns out that i found a group of military librarians. they were very nice and seem to love their jobs. one librarian said she had to be careful walking around NOLA because she worked in a particular institution (i've forgotten which, but wow). and everyone wished me luck when we parted ways. i eventually found ruth and sat with her for a bit.
after lunch, ruth, pavlinka and i walked over to the marriot across from the convention center to the PAM retreat. it was awesome. i met two lovely librarians and had a great chat with them (business card exchange!). even carol was there. we caught up and chatted about jove -- a new innovative thing dealing with teaching through videos.
PAMwide roundtable was interesting. i sat with the people in the discussion for library 2.0 successes. there were some really cool ideas passed around, like penny grants, kindles on loan, taking the library out of titles will draw people into the library, etc. of course we also covered ask-a-librarian, questionpoint, meebo, twitter, all your social media networking widgets. towards the end, every table presented a summary of their discussions.
pavlinka and i spent the break between sessions at the info-expo, checking out more booths and picking up more free stuff. i sat in a 10min presentation about graphene and got a free tshirt and bag from inspec. cool stuff! i also went around and got some other stuff too.
we went to paper presentation session with some interesting ideas about the future of science librarianship. there were 4 presentations and they're available through the scitech division.
then i attempted to get back to the hotel. i got on the shuttle bus to the sheraton and by the time we got there, it was pouring outside. lightning and thunder were right overhead. i was stuck at the sheraton so i figured i'd attend something going on there. i found an sla alumni and students connect session and was "adopted" by LSU. LIU wasnt present. in fact, only 4 schools were and they had some tasty snacks. i chatted with the dean of the LSU library school and a faculty member (tao?).
the PAM open house was also at the sheraton so conveniently i didn't have to go very far. i hung out with a bunch of PAM members -- ones i've met and haven't met before. there was some delicious food for dinner and an open bar and a coffee/dessert station! everything was great. conversation was great. i left with pavlinka a bit early so i could get back to the hotel and do hw that i forgot is due tomorrow.
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one thing to note: explaining what i do is really a mouthful. haha. everytime someone asks me what i do or where i work, i have to explain that i'm a dual degree student doing a master's in math at NYU and a master's in library science in Long Island University's Palmer School. then they all stare at me in AWE cuz i'm obviously insane. lol. then they ask me what i want to do after. i thought it was obvious that with these particular two degrees, i'd work in an academic library, but people still seem surprised when i say either an academic library or for a change of pace, a medical library. some people also ask me how i get interested in the field and if i have to write a thesis for my program (and what my research would focus on ).
anyway, long day ahead tomorrow. gotta get to hw and sleeeep...
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Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
june 13 -- conference day 1
walked over to the convention center from the hotel...took about 25min. it was hot and humid, but a great workout. i picked up my registration stuff -- a badge with a first-timer ribbon, a red bag, an information outlook issue, a pocket book of events, and a passport for the info expo. then i walked over to the restaurant for the newcomer's lunch at sun ray grill. i met a pair of nice librarians from proctor gamble who were not part of PAM and were just there for lunch. soon, more people arrived.
i met ruth for the first time. she had ribbon after ribbon attached to her badge. i also met emily-the chair of PAM, zari-the organizer of the luncheon, barbara-the treasurer, lance-another first timer, pavlinka-the winner of PAM's international award, stacy-mysterious woman from long island, and some other people. we had some nice conversation, mostly focusing on each person's life story. everyone gives me a shocked look when i tell them i'm doing a dual master's degree program. lunch was great -- it was a roll called aloha (i dont even remember what's in it). most of the group left early for the business meeting, but i stayed with pavlinka, lance, and stacy so we could all walk back to the convention center. before everyone dispersed, i pulled out my batch of business cards and started a whole business card exchange (woot, go me).
i spent the afternoon hanging out with pavlinka. we had a quick coffee at a stand inside the convention center; then, we went to the first timers' mingle. i picked up another business card. then we headed into the info-expo and hit up a whole bunch of booths. the passport thing in our bags required us to get stamps from each booth (20 of them) and then submit them by tues 5:15 to get entered into a drawing for something. i picked up quite a few pens and talked to a lot of people. the most compelling group was the simplymap.com guys who were trying to convince me their product was better than google earth. somewhere in the middle, we stopped to eat some shrimp and grits in a glass cup. we met some lovely librarians and i got 2 more business cards.
the opening ceremony was long. it really did last 2 hours. everyone who received an award had an impressive resume of activities with the association. the keynote speakers were also pretty entertaining. they were a husband-wife duo -- wife republican, husband democratic. how they remained married is a mystery. lol. they each spent a good chunk of their individual presentation poking fun at their marriage and each other.
after a short break back at the hotel, i headed out for the academic division's open house and dance party from 9-midnight. i got there a bit late, but i was surprised only 3 people were in the room -- all of them members of PAM. haha...small world. we decided to check out the business and finance division since they had food. the two women in the group left almost immediately after we went in. i was hungry so i picked up some fruit and a tart. i chatted with the librarian from purdue university. he was really cool. we went back to the party and more people had gathered. i found meg! we chatted for a bit and then i lost the other librarian. i found pavlinka and she was talking to a librarian from NASA's library (michael). the three of us chatted for a bit before pavlinka convinced us to go dance. the music however wasn't the best for dancing. but librarians really know how to shake it! lol.
pavlinka and i got pizza down bourbon st before we called it a night. the street was crawling with people and all the xxx rated places were trying to draw people in. it's like something i imagine would happen in vegas, not new orleans! walking back to the hotel alone is kind of creepy. there's no one around, not even cars. luckily i walk fast and keep a pretty close eye on my surroundings. the only thing is, with this pair of glasses, it's hard to use my peripherals. in any case, arjun kept me company on the phone =) (did i mention he's such a sweetie)...
and now i gotta plan for tomorrow -- another long, long day ahead...
i met ruth for the first time. she had ribbon after ribbon attached to her badge. i also met emily-the chair of PAM, zari-the organizer of the luncheon, barbara-the treasurer, lance-another first timer, pavlinka-the winner of PAM's international award, stacy-mysterious woman from long island, and some other people. we had some nice conversation, mostly focusing on each person's life story. everyone gives me a shocked look when i tell them i'm doing a dual master's degree program. lunch was great -- it was a roll called aloha (i dont even remember what's in it). most of the group left early for the business meeting, but i stayed with pavlinka, lance, and stacy so we could all walk back to the convention center. before everyone dispersed, i pulled out my batch of business cards and started a whole business card exchange (woot, go me).
i spent the afternoon hanging out with pavlinka. we had a quick coffee at a stand inside the convention center; then, we went to the first timers' mingle. i picked up another business card. then we headed into the info-expo and hit up a whole bunch of booths. the passport thing in our bags required us to get stamps from each booth (20 of them) and then submit them by tues 5:15 to get entered into a drawing for something. i picked up quite a few pens and talked to a lot of people. the most compelling group was the simplymap.com guys who were trying to convince me their product was better than google earth. somewhere in the middle, we stopped to eat some shrimp and grits in a glass cup. we met some lovely librarians and i got 2 more business cards.
the opening ceremony was long. it really did last 2 hours. everyone who received an award had an impressive resume of activities with the association. the keynote speakers were also pretty entertaining. they were a husband-wife duo -- wife republican, husband democratic. how they remained married is a mystery. lol. they each spent a good chunk of their individual presentation poking fun at their marriage and each other.
after a short break back at the hotel, i headed out for the academic division's open house and dance party from 9-midnight. i got there a bit late, but i was surprised only 3 people were in the room -- all of them members of PAM. haha...small world. we decided to check out the business and finance division since they had food. the two women in the group left almost immediately after we went in. i was hungry so i picked up some fruit and a tart. i chatted with the librarian from purdue university. he was really cool. we went back to the party and more people had gathered. i found meg! we chatted for a bit and then i lost the other librarian. i found pavlinka and she was talking to a librarian from NASA's library (michael). the three of us chatted for a bit before pavlinka convinced us to go dance. the music however wasn't the best for dancing. but librarians really know how to shake it! lol.
pavlinka and i got pizza down bourbon st before we called it a night. the street was crawling with people and all the xxx rated places were trying to draw people in. it's like something i imagine would happen in vegas, not new orleans! walking back to the hotel alone is kind of creepy. there's no one around, not even cars. luckily i walk fast and keep a pretty close eye on my surroundings. the only thing is, with this pair of glasses, it's hard to use my peripherals. in any case, arjun kept me company on the phone =) (did i mention he's such a sweetie)...
and now i gotta plan for tomorrow -- another long, long day ahead...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
spring break
it's been a while since i wrote anything. contrary to what you may think, my life has actually been really, really busy. it's when it's not busy that i actually have time to think and write something down.
the past few weeks have been incredibly stressful. the analysis midterm happened this past thursday. i really hate to go into exams not knowing how it's structured and what i'm expected to be able to regurgitate. so indeed, i felt like i was swimming in the open ocean when i walked into that exam. walking out, i could say i should've at least gotten 1/2 of it. i wrote all over the flipside of the pages -- whatever came to mind was scrawled everywhere. i'm still upset i cant figure out what i did wrong on the last question. i differentiated something wrong.
this week is spring break, but it's not like i'm having much fun. i've got two midterms next week. monday's is linear algebra (another exam that i am blindly swimming about in the sea). wed's is statistics. he gave us the set of questions he will be choosing from, but i'm having so much trouble concentrating and actually figuring out what he gave us in class. lisle and i met these last two days to study. i would say we've been mostly productive, tho i end up talking a lot. lol...
i found out yesterday that i won a scholarship from SLA-NY to attend the 2010 SLA Annual Conference in New Orleans from June 13-16! i am so excited and so nervous. i've never attended a national conference anywhere. i've never even flown in a plane. i rarely stay at hotels. it'll be my first time in the south. i'll be there by myself! i emailed some wise gurus for advice and some of them have already replied and given me some awesome tips.
last friday, simon and i watched "white on rice" -- this great independent film. i really liked the story and how it's not perfect. it doesnt leave you feeling perfectly content. there's something off, but in the end, everything is ok.
mmm there are other things, but i'm tired so i'll stop just short of gushing about a certain someone. lol...
the past few weeks have been incredibly stressful. the analysis midterm happened this past thursday. i really hate to go into exams not knowing how it's structured and what i'm expected to be able to regurgitate. so indeed, i felt like i was swimming in the open ocean when i walked into that exam. walking out, i could say i should've at least gotten 1/2 of it. i wrote all over the flipside of the pages -- whatever came to mind was scrawled everywhere. i'm still upset i cant figure out what i did wrong on the last question. i differentiated something wrong.
this week is spring break, but it's not like i'm having much fun. i've got two midterms next week. monday's is linear algebra (another exam that i am blindly swimming about in the sea). wed's is statistics. he gave us the set of questions he will be choosing from, but i'm having so much trouble concentrating and actually figuring out what he gave us in class. lisle and i met these last two days to study. i would say we've been mostly productive, tho i end up talking a lot. lol...
i found out yesterday that i won a scholarship from SLA-NY to attend the 2010 SLA Annual Conference in New Orleans from June 13-16! i am so excited and so nervous. i've never attended a national conference anywhere. i've never even flown in a plane. i rarely stay at hotels. it'll be my first time in the south. i'll be there by myself! i emailed some wise gurus for advice and some of them have already replied and given me some awesome tips.
last friday, simon and i watched "white on rice" -- this great independent film. i really liked the story and how it's not perfect. it doesnt leave you feeling perfectly content. there's something off, but in the end, everything is ok.
mmm there are other things, but i'm tired so i'll stop just short of gushing about a certain someone. lol...
Thursday, November 19, 2009
catching up on my week
you're gonna love this kitty...
another funny license plate: OHIGETIT
two mornings in a row, dad and i saw another chrysler aspen on the road. they're not very popular cars and we hadn't seen one since he bought his. yesterday's was a tannish colored one on I-278 and this morning's was another black one, but fancier with tinted windows and guards, on W.16 st.
i missed so many photo opps this morning. i saw 2 rainbows and the verrazano bridge was dark on the staten island half and light on the brooklyn half -- exactly in the middle of the bridge.
got my morning exercise by trekking my way to campus from chinatown -- took me a little less than half an hour. if i walked faster, it would take me 20min. it was fun making zigzags across the city as i made my way up. i keep forgetting that NYU actually provides bus service down to chinatown so i could just hop on one of those. oh well... they don't come frequently tho.
i registered for another LIS class: abstracting and indexing. it's 5 saturdays for 5.5 hours each. alice says it might not run. i'm the second person registered for the class. i dont know what the minimum amount of students is required to run a class... if it runs, i'll be doing 5 classes next semester. and people thought i was crazy for doing 4...
i'm currently filling out an SLA volunteer form. i'm just not sure what to write under additional comments. i'd love to become an active member, but at the moment, i like being passive. however, passive doesnt get you anywhere...
going to observe alexa's library instruction class this afternoon and then meet with meg over coffee. mmmm caffeine...
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not much to report from the last few days... i'm running on adrenaline and caffeine mostly. i barely got 6 hours of sleep over two days cuz i was writing a paper and TeXing my math hw (came out to 10 pages). TeXing takes a little more time than it takes me to write it, but it comes out looking so much nicer, no smudges. john said it looks so official (like answer keys do). i've been using miktex portable, which is great because it comes with its own TeX editor and i can easily remove the program from my computer cuz it's self contained in one folder. the downside is that it's a very simple interface and it takes me forever to find the mistake that prevents the code from compiling. but that's the same in TeXnicCenter. the mac and linux versions do a much better job of helping you catch errors. i guess, i just really miss TeXing up analysis hw because prof gole only accepted TeXed reports. so i have him to thank for really learning how to TeX. i even TeXed up review sheets for analysis and linear algebra for my midterms a few weeks ago. it took me a good few days time, but it was worth having all the material in one place.
on a side note, i saw prof percus yesterday in the lounge. i didn't notice him when i walked in, but after i had settled down, i saw he was in a position to notice me so it would be awkward to not say hi and do a little catchup. i'd be lying if i said it wasn't a little bit awkward. sometimes i have a hard time understanding his speech. it's not really that he has an accent, but he doesnt quite enunciate everything so i had to ask him to repeat a lot of things (which is really embarrassing). but we talked about how i'm liking the books he recommended. the martin gardner one is so much fun -- i plan on reading the whole thing through. i'm really considering mashing my two areas of studies together, but i haven't figured out how. prof percus pointed out a really good idea -- talk to carol. well, duh. why didn't i think of that before?? she's already living the life i'm aspiring to, so why not ask her what i should pursue? heh...
btw, this post took me 45 minutes to compose.
another funny license plate: OHIGETIT
two mornings in a row, dad and i saw another chrysler aspen on the road. they're not very popular cars and we hadn't seen one since he bought his. yesterday's was a tannish colored one on I-278 and this morning's was another black one, but fancier with tinted windows and guards, on W.16 st.
i missed so many photo opps this morning. i saw 2 rainbows and the verrazano bridge was dark on the staten island half and light on the brooklyn half -- exactly in the middle of the bridge.
got my morning exercise by trekking my way to campus from chinatown -- took me a little less than half an hour. if i walked faster, it would take me 20min. it was fun making zigzags across the city as i made my way up. i keep forgetting that NYU actually provides bus service down to chinatown so i could just hop on one of those. oh well... they don't come frequently tho.
i registered for another LIS class: abstracting and indexing. it's 5 saturdays for 5.5 hours each. alice says it might not run. i'm the second person registered for the class. i dont know what the minimum amount of students is required to run a class... if it runs, i'll be doing 5 classes next semester. and people thought i was crazy for doing 4...
i'm currently filling out an SLA volunteer form. i'm just not sure what to write under additional comments. i'd love to become an active member, but at the moment, i like being passive. however, passive doesnt get you anywhere...
going to observe alexa's library instruction class this afternoon and then meet with meg over coffee. mmmm caffeine...
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not much to report from the last few days... i'm running on adrenaline and caffeine mostly. i barely got 6 hours of sleep over two days cuz i was writing a paper and TeXing my math hw (came out to 10 pages). TeXing takes a little more time than it takes me to write it, but it comes out looking so much nicer, no smudges. john said it looks so official (like answer keys do). i've been using miktex portable, which is great because it comes with its own TeX editor and i can easily remove the program from my computer cuz it's self contained in one folder. the downside is that it's a very simple interface and it takes me forever to find the mistake that prevents the code from compiling. but that's the same in TeXnicCenter. the mac and linux versions do a much better job of helping you catch errors. i guess, i just really miss TeXing up analysis hw because prof gole only accepted TeXed reports. so i have him to thank for really learning how to TeX. i even TeXed up review sheets for analysis and linear algebra for my midterms a few weeks ago. it took me a good few days time, but it was worth having all the material in one place.
on a side note, i saw prof percus yesterday in the lounge. i didn't notice him when i walked in, but after i had settled down, i saw he was in a position to notice me so it would be awkward to not say hi and do a little catchup. i'd be lying if i said it wasn't a little bit awkward. sometimes i have a hard time understanding his speech. it's not really that he has an accent, but he doesnt quite enunciate everything so i had to ask him to repeat a lot of things (which is really embarrassing). but we talked about how i'm liking the books he recommended. the martin gardner one is so much fun -- i plan on reading the whole thing through. i'm really considering mashing my two areas of studies together, but i haven't figured out how. prof percus pointed out a really good idea -- talk to carol. well, duh. why didn't i think of that before?? she's already living the life i'm aspiring to, so why not ask her what i should pursue? heh...
btw, this post took me 45 minutes to compose.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
another long thursday
had a really interesting day. came into courant a bit before 10am. did all my printing and scanning. as i was buckling down to do some reading and work, allan calls and we go check out the vendor fair at the kimmel center. i got lots of free stuff, but i felt like we didnt really belong there. all the vendors seem to be geared towards faculty and department heads (cuz they're the ones with real buying power). allan and i just got free stuff, which was cool =)
got a peak at where allan works in tisch so now i can visit the ugrad lab if i wanted to. but i doubt it. lol
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shadowing
from 2-4pm, i shadowed jerry heverly at the reference desk on the first floor. there was barely any lull time. people were constantly asking for help. most of the questions were "where can i find this book?" or "how do you read this [call] number?" we talked about how busy the desk gets or when there's down time, he has something to keep him occupied that is easily interruptable (like he brought with him a list of books he is considering for acquisition). he has a special "survival folder" that i thought was a nice and cute idea. in it, he has answers to questions that are frequently asked, like the group access code for refworks. there's a black binder at the desk that they can also refer to. i think every circ desk has one (or should have one). all the desks i've worked at have it and i find it very handy.
jerry's advice is "refer, refer, refer." if you don't know or if you are not sure, refer. we took a look at some ask-a-librarian questions and answers and discussed what made them good and what could be done better. i found that a lot of the questions he was able to answer was because he just simply knew where to look. there was a question about west indian immigrants in nyc and jerry pointed her to an encyclopedia of nyc and found a bibliography that the patron could work with. like, if it was me, i really would not know where to start. he could have referred the question to tim johnson, the librarian who specializes in this field, but jerry felt that he adequately got her started on the research. (yea, we talked about it).
he showed me his research guide for classics and it's a mile long! unfortunately, due to necessity, it needs to be that long. he printed me an article he wrote about being a classics librarian. its fun and insightful.
we also talked about dealing with patrons. how do you deal with patrons who are just stubborn and wont do the work themselves? well, you really cant. you can encourage them to learn and show them the ropes, but if they insist on not doing so, they're just shortchanging themselves. there's a patron like that whom i have encountered at courant. jerry tries to turn every encounter into a learning experience for the patron (with much success, might i add). like there was one patron who was waiting for a computer to open up and he was in a hurry so he asked if we could look up a call number for him. jerry insisted that he get a lesson on how to do it in bobcat, even tho the patron insisted that he already knew how. but it turns out his book is unavailable and jerry was able to direct him to cooper union for a copy. would the patron have figured this out himself? who knows.
among other things, we talked about my interest in mathematics and working in a medical library. we looked up the NY Academy of Medicine and he gave me some valuable advice. the NYAM is not affiliated with any hospitals so they serve a different sort of patronage. most medical libraries are associated with some larger organization. so we talked about not just looking into the libraries but also at the large organization as a whole, and deciding if that's place i want to be working in. he doesn't think it would be a good idea to intern there if i want to work in a library that services hospitals and clinics.
he also addressed the issue of subject matter. how much of the subject do you really need to know and how do you go about acquiring all that knowledge? tho, librarians tell me they barely have time to read, jerry seems to find time to do so. mainly, when he's reviewing whether or not a book is a good buy, he reads the reviews and there's a listserv he subscribes to that sends these peer reviews straight to his inbox. he reads the major publications in the field as well.
overall, i would say, it was awesome working with jerry.
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pauline and i attended the SLA annual meeting. torrential rains were pouring down when we left bobst around 5pm. i didnt have an umbrella so i got drenched. pauline introduced me to all sorts of people at the meeting. they had catering and wine. i had a glass of coke and occasionally snagged some finger foods as they were coming around. i met some very interesting people. aside from pauline, the person i spent the most time talking with was the 2009 President-elect, Leigh Hallingby. the meeting itself was as painless as they could make it. the major issue that stirred people was the proposal of the name change to SLA. we're going to be voting on it sometime this year. the proposed name is "ASKPro" and it sounds like they worked from the acronym and tried to make words fit because it is ridiculously long. overall, it was fun. the event was held at Skadden Arps (a lawfirm in Times Square that my brother actually interned at for a week) (which reminds me, pauline introduced me to the librarian of skadden's law library - i'm curious now to see what it looks like in there. i've only seen a few law libraries myself since not all the law firms i interned at in 2002 (wow, a long time ago) showed us their libraries).
jerry's advice is "refer, refer, refer." if you don't know or if you are not sure, refer. we took a look at some ask-a-librarian questions and answers and discussed what made them good and what could be done better. i found that a lot of the questions he was able to answer was because he just simply knew where to look. there was a question about west indian immigrants in nyc and jerry pointed her to an encyclopedia of nyc and found a bibliography that the patron could work with. like, if it was me, i really would not know where to start. he could have referred the question to tim johnson, the librarian who specializes in this field, but jerry felt that he adequately got her started on the research. (yea, we talked about it).
he showed me his research guide for classics and it's a mile long! unfortunately, due to necessity, it needs to be that long. he printed me an article he wrote about being a classics librarian. its fun and insightful.
we also talked about dealing with patrons. how do you deal with patrons who are just stubborn and wont do the work themselves? well, you really cant. you can encourage them to learn and show them the ropes, but if they insist on not doing so, they're just shortchanging themselves. there's a patron like that whom i have encountered at courant. jerry tries to turn every encounter into a learning experience for the patron (with much success, might i add). like there was one patron who was waiting for a computer to open up and he was in a hurry so he asked if we could look up a call number for him. jerry insisted that he get a lesson on how to do it in bobcat, even tho the patron insisted that he already knew how. but it turns out his book is unavailable and jerry was able to direct him to cooper union for a copy. would the patron have figured this out himself? who knows.
among other things, we talked about my interest in mathematics and working in a medical library. we looked up the NY Academy of Medicine and he gave me some valuable advice. the NYAM is not affiliated with any hospitals so they serve a different sort of patronage. most medical libraries are associated with some larger organization. so we talked about not just looking into the libraries but also at the large organization as a whole, and deciding if that's place i want to be working in. he doesn't think it would be a good idea to intern there if i want to work in a library that services hospitals and clinics.
he also addressed the issue of subject matter. how much of the subject do you really need to know and how do you go about acquiring all that knowledge? tho, librarians tell me they barely have time to read, jerry seems to find time to do so. mainly, when he's reviewing whether or not a book is a good buy, he reads the reviews and there's a listserv he subscribes to that sends these peer reviews straight to his inbox. he reads the major publications in the field as well.
overall, i would say, it was awesome working with jerry.
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pauline and i attended the SLA annual meeting. torrential rains were pouring down when we left bobst around 5pm. i didnt have an umbrella so i got drenched. pauline introduced me to all sorts of people at the meeting. they had catering and wine. i had a glass of coke and occasionally snagged some finger foods as they were coming around. i met some very interesting people. aside from pauline, the person i spent the most time talking with was the 2009 President-elect, Leigh Hallingby. the meeting itself was as painless as they could make it. the major issue that stirred people was the proposal of the name change to SLA. we're going to be voting on it sometime this year. the proposed name is "ASKPro" and it sounds like they worked from the acronym and tried to make words fit because it is ridiculously long. overall, it was fun. the event was held at Skadden Arps (a lawfirm in Times Square that my brother actually interned at for a week) (which reminds me, pauline introduced me to the librarian of skadden's law library - i'm curious now to see what it looks like in there. i've only seen a few law libraries myself since not all the law firms i interned at in 2002 (wow, a long time ago) showed us their libraries).
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