It is almost here.....APLA 2001 in Charlottetown begins next
Thursday, May 31st. The weather is almost spring-like, there was a
picture of Annie of Green Gables (no, she is not REAL, it was one of
the many actresses that don those damn pig-tails all summer) in the
newspaper today, the lupines are emerging to once again take over the
Island ditches, the warblers are arriving (birds that is, not the
summer migrants that form the Charlottetown Summer Festival), and
conference fever is in the air!
During your visit you are all welcome to join the conference
committee members on our daily 5am 5 mile warm-up run (longer runs
on the weekends). Yes, it really gets those conference planning and
organizing, stuffing name tags into plastic holders juices flowing.
Okay, okay...slight exaggeration about how we warm up to talk and do
conference every day. What flows is more likely many extra-strength
double-doubles down our gullets and I hear some committee members
have worked out a deal that they have the stuff injected
intravenously while charging through one of the 623 "coffee"
drive-throughs around town.
On a much more serious conference note: If you have registered and
have "NOT" received an email confirmation from the Registrar Dawn
Hooper, please contact her immediately. [log in to unmask]
902-566-0453
If you are looking to make connections with other
library personnel with similar interests, consider attending one of
the Interest Group suppers. The APLA Interest Groups will be
converging on Charlottetown restaurants after Friday's OGM.
If interested, please contact one of the following IG conveners.
Collections Development: Glenna Quinn [log in to unmask]
Computers & Connectivity: James Watson [log in to unmask]
Conservation of Library Materials [log in to unmask]
Continuing Education: Marie DeYoung [log in to unmask]
Francophone: Jean-Claude Arcand [log in to unmask]
Library Instruction: Dianne Cmor [log in to unmask]
Library Technicians: Susan Harris [log in to unmask]
Newspaper Interest Group: Charles Cameron [log in to unmask]
Just beginning to plan your trip over to PEI? Looking for ferry
schedules (yes, we still have one from Nova Scotia), questions about
your high-sided vehicle crossing the dear bridge in serious winds,
weather, contact information for local libraries you might be wanting
to visit while here, conference contact information, registration
desk hours, APLA membership information...it can all be found at the
conference web site. http://www.upei.ca/~apla/ You've looked but
you still have questions? Please contact us. We are here to help.
Sharon Clark for APLA 2001 in sunny Charlottetown.
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Sharon Clark, Cataloguing Librarian
Robertson Library, UPEI.
550 University Ave. Charlottetown C1A 4P3
[log in to unmask] 902-566-0581 Fax 902-628-4305
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