Visiting Miami

Yesterday I flew to Miami, FL, in the morning and came home at night which made for a very long day...entirely my choice, mind you. I had been invited to speak to library staff of the combined Miami Dade College campuses by Thom Saudargas, a librarian (and funny guy) who is the Campus CIO for the Medical Center Campus. It was the first time I've given a presentation in a real theater...I stood on the little proscenium and delivered my oration although there were times I wished I could tap dance as we had a hard time getting my slides up on the screen so I was holding up the print-out of my presentation, saying, ok, now we are moving to slide 3 that looks like this...

All was good in the end.

And today I got a nice email from an attendee who thanked me and said...not only were you full of thoughts, you filled me with thoughts of what we could do. This kind of feedback is why I spend 20 hours of one day on the road. Not that my thoughts were so marvy but that I could help one person at least think in new ways about doing the job. It's not important to me if my ideas are ones that are used...what is vital to me is that people working in libraries think outside of their usual practices and assumptions.

Off the soapbox now. I am taking a few days vacation so George and Alice are "on". And we're going to have a guest blogger...more on that to come.