I’ve arrived in New York City, and I love it already. We had just enough time to walk through Rockefeller Plaza before the sun set. The weather is pretty terrible here, driving sleet, but the city is fabulous regardless.
It was bittersweet leaving Chicago - I felt like we didn’t have enough time to do […]
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We’ve moved up the line from Chicago to Evanston, Chicago’s first suburb and home to Northwestern University, where my husband is attending a short course at Kellogg School of Management. Evanston is a model university town, it’s leafy, full of great bookshops and hideouts, and beautiful scenery. Our room here looks over Lake Michigan. Yet […]
One thing I’m annoyed to be missing (besides missing ACRL and Computers in Libraries) is that I won’t be able to vote in this year’s ALIA election as I’ll still be on the road and ALIA only offers paper ballots.
One thing I am really hoping to not miss is Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig speaking […]
I’ve been in the US for two weeks now, and it’s a been a strange experience. In Australia, we grow up with big chunks of American culture - publishing, television, film, fashion, news. But it’s not quite the same as being here. In some ways, it’s similar to home, in other ways it’s completely different […]
I’m in Orlando, Florida, which I expected to be sunny, but is instead somewhat chilly. I visited the Orange County Library System to find Internet access and thought I’d taken a wrong turn to Blockbuster when I got inside! What is really cool is that the library has a stage and seated area for presentations, […]
