Inside ZSR

COSWL meeting

COSWL met at 8:00 this morning. (I’m like Mary, I like the West coast time!) It was a really good and productive meeting. In general, we’re focusing on our blog as a marketing and communication tool to reach out to a larger audience. At annual, we’re going to participate in the vendor area to talk... more

Susan’s Saturday Morning Wanderings

I’m still on east coast time, so was awake at 3:30 am. I worked on finishing up a review of a manuscript submission to the Journal of Web Librarianship (I’m on the editorial board). The first session I’m attending this morning will have the editor as one of the speakers so I wanted to be... more

Welcome to ALA!

This is the sign that welcomes folks to the conference! more

Ups and downs on Friday

Yesterday was a day of ups and downs: One of the planes took a sharp decent way before we were near the airport. Luckily, the pilots were there. They came on the intercom and announced the autopilot caused the descent, so they took over to correct it. We left the airport terminal only to see... more

Susan Made it to Seattle

After hours of being airborne, I arrived safe and sound right before noon (Seattle time). I hitched a ride on a shuttle bus to the downtown Hilton, settled in and went to the Convention & Trade Center to pick up the conference schedule. It is amazing the number of sessions and meetings that are taking... more

Waterfront View

Waterfront View Originally uploaded by Susan Sharpless Smith. more

Space Needle

The Space Needle and Calder Space Needle Originally uploaded by Susan Sharpless Smith. more

Pike Place Public Market

This was the first “popular” tourist sight I spotted on my run. Pike Place Public Market Originally uploaded by Susan Sharpless Smith. more

City View from the Seattle Hilton

I’m posting a few images I put on my Flickr account. City View from the Seattle Hilton Originally uploaded by Susan Sharpless Smith. more

Friday in Seattle with Lynn

I spent the day on the University of Washington campus at an all-day follow-up workshop to the Institute on Scholarly Communications that I attended in December in Durham (remember that marathon Gaz article?). I LOVED the campus and was very glad to see both the Odegaard Undergraduate Library (that I heard a lot about when... more