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Touring Boehm’s Candy Factory

Roz, Mary Beth and Lynn have already covered the important highlights of day one at ACRL in Seattle.My pictures from yesterday show the day (in reverse): a fun, informative tour of outlying areas surrounding Seattle, including (in addition to chocolate, wine and waterfalls) floating bridges, a view of Bill Gates’ lakefront (Lake Washington) massive home, the spectacle of the Olympic and Cascades mountain ranges, the original Microsoft campus, University of Washington, and the Sleepless in Seattle houseboat.

The tour folks did get us back in plenty of time for the opening keynote address by Rushworth Kidder. Since he was a last minute replacement for the originally scheduled speaker, I had no expectation level going in. I turned out to be pleasantly surprised as his address (as detailed by the others already) was thoughtful and thought provoking. The one image that stayed with me was his description of his definition of moral courage which he described as being comprised of three components – in the framework of our favorite “and” illustrative tool – the Venn diagram. He defined moral courage as the intersection of willing endurance in spite of significant danger with principle as the overriding purpose.

By the end of the talk, I was picturing my day graphically, as two Venn Diagrams (pictured below!). Does this mean I am hopelessly an information literacy instructor through and through?

Components of the Perfect Conference Tour

Components of Moral Courage

I ended my day with a lovely dinner at a local restaurant, Oceanaire, as a guest of ProQuest/Serials Solution. I enjoyed having a chance to chat with Jane Burke, Marty Kahn (ProQuest CEO), Jim Rettig and colleagues from several institutions. I met an old ZSR Library staff member, Michael LaCroix, now director at Creighton University. He was the first Acquisitions librarian in the 70’s, and says to say “hi” to Wanda, Sharon and Renate, who he says will remember him.