I’ve recently returned from SLA’s annual conference in Philadelphia. It’s taken me a week to recover from a packed few days of activities – kicking off at 07:00 on Sunday 12 June and wrapping up at about 11pm on Wednesday 15th. In that time I…
- attended Leadership Development Institute: hearing about financial changes, Board of Directors candidates and the Loyalty project
- took part in the Rising Stars and Fellows round table
- received my Rising Star award
- went to my first Legal Division board meeting
- co-ordinated SLA Europe drinks (thanks to TFPL for sponsorship)
- welcomed people to the International Reception
- learned about Loyalty
- discovered the science behind ice-cream
- took tea with the Legal Division
- enjoyed cookies with LMD and listened to Ned talk about his conference experience
- unconferenced with the Legal Division
- ate ice-cream with this year’s Early Career Conference Awardees and was inspired by their enthusiasm
- listened to debate in Chapter cabinet and Joint cabinet
- had a drink with a colleague I’ve never met before
- caught up with old friends
- talked to plenty of new people
And by the end of Wednesday, I was just about ready to start all over again and do all the things I didn’t get time to do…visit the Expo, see 60 sites in 60 seconds, see Philadelphia, run, go to a Business & Finance open house… there were just not enough hours in the day!
After I left Philadelphia, I spent a couple of days in New York. I’m planning to write more about that over on Running Life in the next day or so, as it was a rather fun trip recovering from conference.
Filed under: Event report, Personal narrative
