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Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson will be in town April 16, much to the delight of the state's librarians. That's because the pair, co-authors of "Peter and the Starcatchers," will be appearing at the Texas Library Association conference at the Dallas Convention Center that week. Other authors attending include Rosemary Wells, Elizabeth Noble, Kathy Patrick and first daughter Jenna Bush. Now, the fee schedule for this conference would baffle even those of you who memorized the Dewey Decimal system as a child. (Don't play dumb -- I know you're out there.) I did contact organizers and asked whether members of the general public could attend and was told, yes: "If the author you are interested in is signed up to be in the authors area then an exhibits only badge is sufficient. If the author is a speaker at one of our sessions or programs then that you will need an attendee badge and possibl[y] purchase a ticket if they are speaking at a meal function." If I can get clarification on that, I will post it. Meanwhile, perhaps you could also sneak in as a ringer on a bookcart drill team. (I always knew those librarians had dark secrets about what they did in the stacks after the doors were locked.) |
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Posted by Brenda Thompson @ 2:02 PM Fri, Feb 29, 2008
Members of the general public can purchase a ticket for the TLA conference that will allow them admittance to all sessions. Just check the "Trustee/Lay/Advocate" category in the registration form under the non-member rates for the best price. This standard ticket includes access to all the regular sessions during the full three days of programming with the exception of ticketed functions, such as the luncheon with Jenna Bush. While the general public is certainly welcome to attend any ticketed events, individuals must purchase a separate ticket for each event (which are listed on the registration form). You can buy luncheon tickets (to attend just that luncheon or any particular meal function) without having to buy the full three-day pass. Meal function tickets do have to be purchased by March 25 (we need a head count). The standard three-day pass can be purchased at the discounted pre-registration rate of $115 if purchased by March 25, or for the onsite rate of $135 throughout the actual conference.
Go to http://www.txla.org/conference/Registration.pdf for the pre-registration form. You can fax it to 512/328-8852; mail it to TLA, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Ste. 401, Austin, TX 78746, or go http://www.txla.org/conference/conf.html and click on "register online." If anyone is still confused, we are librarians after all, so we will happily answer questions. Give us a call (512/328-1518) or send us an email (tla@txla.org). We promise not to code the answer in either the Dewey Decimal or the Library of Congress classification systems.
Posted by Michael Merschel @ 2:25 PM Fri, Feb 29, 2008
Thanks so much for the clarification.
Now, I just need someone to help me with the Library of Congress system. Dewey was my friend from third grade on (I spent a lot of time in the 600s, with books on race cars, and 900s, with the history books.) I feel at home browsing a Dewey library.
The Library of Congress system always seemed ... academic to me. Which was handy in college. But not a lot of fun.
I suppose if I spontanously decide to launch into a dissertation this weekend, I will need to overcome this bias.