It looks like HB's will be sending me to WINTER INSTITUTE this year ( Read more... )

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This morning I had to go into work for a few hours to process payroll. It’s kind of important. I mean, employees like that sort of thing, getting paid ( Read more... )

Last year’s NCIBA Discovery Show was one of the highlights of my time at Village House of Books. I loved going to the different education sessions and talking to publisher reps about upcoming titles. This year, though, it didn’t look like I would be going. The owners of VHOB had missed the previous year and wanted to make sure they attended the ( Read more... )

Today was a bit exciting for a young woman with bookseller ambitions. It was the first day of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Discovery Show (NCIBA) and I was representing our bookstore because the owners were unable to make it. (Well, that and I just really, really wanted to go ( Read more... )

First discussion of the day was "Collections Practices and Green Policies: An Uneasy Relationship".  I had picked this one because it seemed more practical than the others for my future work in conservation, but I worried it would be too technical.  Fear not!  It was actually quite interesting.  The best presentation hands down was from a registrar ( Read more... )

I'm in Napa Valley, attending the California Association of Museums conference.  Since this isn't my first conference ( I attended the WMA/UMA conference in Salt Lake City last year) the experience isn't nearly as intimidating as last year, but in a way it is scarier because the people I'm networking with in Napa are potential coworkers, whereas in ( Read more... )

So you're familiar with TED Talks, right? Basically, they're brief discussions/lectures - usually ten minutes or so - focused on a particular topic that is an "idea worth spreading". The WMA wanted to create their own variation on this idea, and they debuted it at the Church History Museum to close 2013's annual conference. There were four ( Read more... )

It's the last day of the conference - OH BOY! Don't get me wrong, I've had a lot of fun and I've learned so much, but the pace is exhausting and I could really do with a nap ( Read more... )

After such a delightful late night stew of dinosaur fossils and reality TV, I was wiped out. I decided to sleep through Friday's first session, since none of the topics particularly caught my attention and I knew the next day would be another early morning. It was great. I rolled into the conference hotel around 10:45 refreshed and ready for the ( Read more... )