CSLA Wrap-up

The California School Library Association was an amazing event for me because:

• I got free books! I think I ended up with about 16 hard-cover books. That's easily a couple hundred dollars worth of books. (And, yes, I put this first!)
• Getting to bump into people like Barbara Jeffus and Martha Rowland who have had (and continue to have) these amazing library careers (and who are also neat people).
• Getting to hang out with my local library folks (whom it is often difficult to see).
• Having Margaret Baker show me publishers (and if you have never had that happen, you have missed out!).
  
• Seeing many of the students from Fresno Pacific's LIB 720 course (and, yes, this was an assignment for all of us).
• The great presentations from such experienced folks!
• Putting faces to names from CALIBK12
• Getting a sense of the "politics" of the organization.
• Getting to meet some of the authors.

I will definitely go again in 2008. Well worth the time, effort, and money. Being a first year library media teacher, I learned a great deal and, not the least of which, is that I made the right decision to become a librarian.