First and foremost, Studs Terkel is amazing and a legend and he really, really likes to talk.

Second, only Studs Terkel’s talk running late could have prevented me from attending the Blogger Get-Together that happened this Thursday. I did get to meet with Sally Jacobs, the lovely author of The Practical Archivist, that night, which was a treat and a half…I couldn’t have asked for a more ebullient fellow blogger. :)

Anyway, to the business at hand:

Workshops and sessions I attended and will be blogging about in further detail:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Managing the Digital University Desktop

Advanced Electronic Records Management

Digitization Matters Symposium

New Member/First Timer Breakfast and Orientation

Free Speech, Free Spirit: The Studs Terkel Center for Oral History (in addition to Studs, Michael Gorman spoke…which I thought was more than a little odd)

When Good Photo Collections Go Bad: Critical Concepts for Understanding and Managing Photo Collections

Reference Service and Minimal Processing: Challenges and Opportunities

MPLP Comes Home to Roost: Applying the Greene-Meissner Recommendations Broadly Across an Institution

Archival Education for the Digital Age

The Dynamics in the Aggregate: Shareable Metadata and Next-Generation Access Systems

If anyone has any specific questions about these, just leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you; I took copious notes, but given the ridiculous price of wireless internet at the Fairmont (don’t even get me started on that) and the fact that most of the discussion rooms were chairs-only (no tables on which to set my laptop), a lot of those notes are hand-written, so actually getting a handle on them might take awhile….not to mention that tomorrow I will be flying to Colorado and beginning to unpack all of my things, and so I’ll be pretty busy (to say the least). However, I do think it’s valuable to have some information on these sessions out there, so I will be blogging about it…it just might take awhile. :)

To everyone who is currently in Chicago, I hope to see you at the All-Attendee Reception at the Millenium Park Rooftop Terrace. I’m tall anyway and I’m wearing wedge heels, so if you see me (that is, if you recognize me from my pic on the SAA wiki profile), say hi!