Librarian Land

It is my intention to keep this blog mostly focused on my triathlon training experience and raising awareness for lymphoma and leukemia research. There will be occasions when I find it necessary to digress. This is one of those occasions.

Those of you who know me (which is most of my readers, at this point) know that I am a librarian. I currently work for a public library and I select the children’s and teen materials that we buy. All in all, a very cool job. Currently, in support of said job, I am attending the American Library Association midwinter conference in Denver, Colorado. Imagine hundreds of librarians descending on a five square block area of a city. It’s something to behold. A few observations:

1) The convention center booked the Sportsmen Exposition right next to the ALA conference. I find it very amusing to stand near the door and separate the librarians from the sportsmen. It is not a very difficult task.

2) Librarians as a whole are not an attractive bunch. It’s sad, really, but there it is. I find myself torn between admiration for people who do not conform to society’s ideas of “attractive” and confusion as to why they don’t care, at least a little bit. If you ever see me wearing a kitty cat corduroy jumper or a sweatshirt with books appliqued on it, please, please, please stage an intervention. I might resist at first but when my head has cleared, I promise I will thank you.

That’s it for the moment. I have to run off to a collection development discussion group. (To make this post at least a bit relevant to my blog, I used the hotel’s fitness center yesterday. I’m going to take a spin class at the local gym tomorrow.)

The Team in Training kick-off is Wednesday night, so look for a post about that on Thursday.