Sounds like a blast, huh? This week the Kansas Library Association held its annual conference. This year hundreds of librarians, library workers, library friends, and board trustees converged on Wichita to exchange ideas and learn new things.
You might think it would be dry and boring - lots of sessions on collecting fines and chasing unruly teens out of the library. But it's quite the contrary. Librarians might be a quirky bunch, but they are also passionate, radical, and sometimes subversive. And librarians can be quite the partiers. One of my favorite quotes about librarians is from a Chicago hotelier about why he liked hosting a national library conference:
"You honor your reservations; you go to your meetings so we can clean the rooms; you're relatively quiet; and you drink more than the American Legion."
Maybe that says too much, I don't know. What I do know is that there are 700+ library workers and enthusiasts going back to their libraries with new ideas, renewed energy, and a common desire to help the people they serve have a great library experience.
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