The Seattle convention was mega-cool. I want to thank, again and again and again, theLittauer Foundation for the travel grant and all of the AJL members for the subsidy without either of which I could not have attended the convention. I really really really liked everything especially putting names to faces like "Enid" and "Nancy" and "Heidi" and the wonderful conversations that were to be had at all hours of the day. The Nature tour and the nature library were stupendous. Happily and most fortunately, Sinagoga "La Javura" and I became members of the AJL of Southern California chapter, so now the chapter might want to call itself unofficially the AJLSC International chapter (je je je).
Just thinking out loud, here, but as a possible consideration AJL might in some star-trekky future-time play with the idea (...with a pinch or pound of salt...) of a floating convention where we could hold all of the sessions in the different towns along a part of the the Intracoastal Waterway of the eastern seaboard (e.g., Washington DC and the Dismal Swamp Canal, etc...). If a bunch of Paddleboat high rollers on the Columbia River can do it, there's no reason why a gallant band of librarians can't do the same (gambol, not gamble). The sleeping accomodations could be the cruise boat(s) or little hotels along the waterway. Librarian spouses could enjoy fishing and or casual boating. I can dream. Besos de Valencia Alba ************** Alba Toscano, presª Sinagoga conservador/masortí La Javurá calle Uruguay 59, pta 13 46007 Valencia (Spain) http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia http://lajavura.org Skype: albatoscanovalencia UStream: http://www.lajavura.org/ustream/html 96 380 2129 96 380 6970 658 721 769 lajav...@lajavura.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
