After a month I'm finally getting to this! It was a great conference and certainly a wonderful venue in Portland. I'd never been there before and definitely want to go back purely for vacation. I hadn't been to ACRL in many years either and I was glad to attend again.
ACRL is pretty overwhelming with many choices every hour which makes it hard to decide what to attend. As Steve Cramer mentioned, it's heavy on information literacy and I usually find that we are certainly up to speed with our program here. I found some sessions and posters on student employees very useful and would love to try out some ideas here -- look out supervisors!
I also went to some sessions on digital sources and incorporating them into the curriculum. We have really ramped up our work in this area and, again, I got some good ideas.
I attended Steve & Lynda's presentation on our liaison reorganization and they did a super job! I had the pleasure of presenting on our work with high impact practices and felt proud to showcase everyone's hard work in this area.
The final keynote by Lawrence Lessig was inspirational. He's know for his work with Creative Commons and open access but the broader theme was on the haves and have nots and he had many people in tears, especially when talking about Aaron Swartz.
On a personal note I had a wonderful reunion with a friend I hadn't seen in almost 30 years. Where does the time go?
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