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Whew! After running errands, making sure files are in order, and finishing all the necessary tasks to leave town, I’m sitting in the airport waiting to fly to O’Hare. (I’m really glad the layover happens to be there… they have great vegan pretzels!)

I’m headed off to ALA in a few capacities. My main committee involvement is with COSWL, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship. We’re working on a lot of initiatives right now. My major involvement is in helping kick off the use of social software; we’re starting with Flickr and with a blog. Are you surprised? 😉 I’m also involved with the ACRL’s Women’s Studies Section‘s Instruction Committee. Otherwise known as the IS committee of the WSS of ACRL (acronyms really do run rampant in ALA!) I’m doing a bit of blogging for LITA and will participate in LITA’s Distance Learning Interest Group (as long as I get out of another committee meeting in time). Finally, I’m going to be participating in a few focus groups, hopefully learning about some products that might be useful to us when they release.

So it will be busy, fun, and coffee-filled. I’ll try to blog the most interesting things here. I’ll also blog the women’s issues angle of what I attend over on the COSWL Cause.