Empty Nest

We've made it to the other side of CLA - and it was awesome! It was hard work - but great work! It is "priceless" to be able to wake up and love your job and the people you work with. The whole RC staff was definitely with us in spirit, stories we shared at presentations and with booth visitors, and even in our photos and videos!

Thanks to everyone who was part of the project in ideas, spirit, and hard work over the past year - both at CLA and back at the library! I really enjoyed working on the project with you! And I am most grateful for everyone's help allowing me to be a part of this project - thank you!

I wanted to make sure with my blog posts that I got all the valuable info and exicitement across. I'll do my best to wrap up the weekend from my "bird's eye" view ;).

The whole weekend was literally a blur! Friday night set the tone for the whole weekend - positive, exciting, busy! We were defnitely the best looking and most interesting booth of all the exhibits! Attendance didn't seem huge for the whole cofnerence - maybe 5-700? Booth business was very good! I'm guessing we had at least 400 all weekend? Everyone who came was interested. I had maybe 2 "negative nancy's" -who I was able to win over.

I can't believe we've already got our first "baby bird" out of the nest! It's a litle sad at first - but it's the right thing and it feels good to know that a rgeat library and community are enjoying and learning from play.

I never imagined it would go so well - and am so happy! Now that we're back the ball keeps rolling! Renee has the hard job of figuring out the "rental/borrowing" of the PALs and getting abck to all the folks interested, Margaret and I working on ordering /making sure new PALs have everything they need to go out, WG is making sure we've got all the videos for assembly/cleaning, and the whole group is following up on assorted odds and ends to secure for the whole "reantal / borrowing" plan now that's it's rolling.

Please let me know if you'd like me to ramble more about anything, would like to see a CLA brochure, etc. I'm still a little scattered brained froma ll the excitement and just trying to spend my week getting ready for our ILS SRP presentation due Thurs. and we're gearing up for HPotter this Saturday. On to the next exicting thing!

Thanks again! Caw - caw! Angelica :)