CiL2008

CiL2008 was terrific. As many of my blogging compatriots have admitted, there wasn’t a lot that was brand, spanking new (to me) at the conference, but what was (and always is) new and exciting are the people who bring the interesting ideas to the party. And I met a lot of those people at CiL this year — people who presented about neat, new ways they are making use of 2.0 technologies in their libraries, attendees who are planning to use those technologies in different & brilliant ways, and all my amazing CiL/IL colleagues, who I also happily call friends, from whom I always learn something new during all those conversations between sessions and (ahem) beers.

Due to a lingering cold and just being generally worn down (and maybe, just maybe, some of those aforementioned beers), I didn’t get to as many sessions this year as I would have liked, so I don’t have a well fleshed-out play-by-play or hit/miss list, but both have been amply covered elsewhere anyway. The perfect summation in my book? “It’s like Candyland only nerdier!”. Indeed.