Every November, the California Library Association has its annual conference and since I've begun working at Kings County Library in April 2014, I've been lucky enough to attend the conference each year. This year's conference was held in Riverside,CA from November 2-4. I always look forward to attending this conference because it's a chance to reunite with librarian friends that live throughout the state that I don't get to see often as well as meet online librarian friends in real life. I love then opportunity to learn new things regarding the library profession as well as being able to have fun and party during the evening through parties as well as the haters ball (librarians hate on whatever they want) and battledecks (powerpoint russian roulette) . Here are photos from my last three days at the conference.
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| Me and Elizabeth at fundraiser party |
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| Me and Nichole at fundraiser party |
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| Velva, me, Nichole and Elizabeth at fundraiser party |
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| Hotel I stayed at during conference |
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| Location of CLA conference |
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| 2018 Summer Reading Program Theme |
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| First conference session |
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| Lunch of vegan tamale with spanish rice from Tamale Factory restaurant |
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| Used bookstore near conference |
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| Snack between conference sessions |
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| Attending 2018 CLA conference committee meeting |
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| Helping at friends session |
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| Surprise gifts of vegan wine and chocolate for helping friends |
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| Rebecca, me and Tera after my unoffical annual veggie dinner |
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| Me and online friend before evening events start |
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| Scene from mine & friends 5 minute speed mentor session |
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| Drag queen |
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| Dolly's direct Hater's Ball presentation |
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| Dolly talks of annoyance of phone in libraries |
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| Hubby makes cameo as angry patron in friend's presentation |
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| Presentation requiring audience help |
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| Presentation on toddlers |
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| Oleg discusses dislike of toddlers |
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| Learning about a upcoming project |
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| Last day at the conference |
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| Meeting a Twitter friend in real life |
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| African american librarian meeting |
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| Lunch session and vegan lasagna especially for me |
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| Session on volunteers and fine removal |
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| CLA 2018 conference theme, date & location |
