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King of Conference

David Lee King of the Topeka and Shawnee County (Kans.) Public Library offers a first-person travelogue of his experience at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In between searching for swag in the exhibit hall and crashing the Open Gaming Night and OCLC Blogger's Salon, he takes a peek at Council, gets lost while traveling to a session, and shows us what geeks do at Disneyland. Transcript (Opens in new window or tab).

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4:18

I just love it

Love:
-being your geek out pal
-being a librarian w everybody in this vid (even in the background/audience)
-thinking this is the coolest ALA conf demo
-now and what that means for our profession

You do good work DLK *and* ALA

Swag vs. Schwag?

I know schwag also doubles as slang for marijuana but I've never heard it pronounced swag. Like I should talk, I live in Oklahoma, home to a town named Miami (pronounced My-am-uh).


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