i’ve got some downtime before i head back to the conference center to do lord knows what. i think i’m attending a session about gadgets and gaming, but going home and watching law & order sounds pretty appealing. i’ve been up since 5:00am and pretty much on the go all day. the good news is that i finally finished last week’s homework. there were so many times i was tempted to as some of the people around for advice on which database could help me track down the answers for class, but that would be cheating and i don’t want to look like such a library school nerd.

today’s sessions weren’t quite as good as yesterday’s. i did go to a couple geared towards corporate libraries, which made me sort of want to work in one even more. i also sort of want to stay where i am and push through lots of changes that will help people, but it’s hard to really know what the best idea would be right now. it’s all a bit premature since i haven’t graduated school yet.

earlier today i talked with a blogger who was sitting against a wall, charging her laptop, and killing time before the taxonomy session. it was pretty refreshing to talk to somebody who isn’t insane for second life but also isn’t a technophobe.

right now i’m at a coffee shop and half the people here are from the conference. it’s funny because some high school kid asked us what internet librarian was about, and the best we could come up with was a vague “librarians who use the internet”. it’s a diverse bunch of people here. i should really start my library blog so i can discuss it more and pretend to be like the annoyed librarian, but i haven’t gotten off my duff.

i did make a facebook group for work and invited some gradstudents (who were my friends). already people have joined that i didn’t invite, so i consider that one victory from the conference. let’s hope i can keep it interesting. i’m just waiting till people outside of berkeley join. i guess that will be the real victory.

ok, off to go see these gadgets and dream about crackberries. tomorrow, i’m going home!

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i’m sitting in “bloggers alley” here at IL2007 (as the cool kids are calling it) and i can’t help but think it should be called “boogers alley” and then i think that i might be too immature to be here. it’s weird. there’s been lots of talk about web 2.0 applications, and alot of it seems like old hat. i wonder if it’s because i’m on the younger side of people here or if it’s because i’m secretly a library nerd. i keep seeing all sorts of library bloggers that i read, but i’m not really into this networking thing/too shy to talk to them. i did make one new contact today, which was nice. we’re friends on facebook now, which makes it official.

ok, time to learn about more 2.0 stuff and try to schmooze.

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