Lisa A. Raney

In just a few weeks, I will be Dallas-bound. I'm heading to the American Library Assocation's Midwinter Conference. It will be both my first conference and first trip to Texas. (I am well-prepared with Radical Reference's Alternative Guide to Dallas.) I'm very excited for the opportunity and will be rooming with a friend from library school who I haven't seen in a year and a half. She graduated a semester before me and is now an electronic resources librarian at a university in Florida.

I'm excited for the opportunity to meet librarians from across the country (and world!) and to hear what's going on in the world of libraries outside of my branch. I keep up via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and  journals, but I anticipate great discussions in Dallas and hope to make some new connections as well.

I also plan to attend some events held by my roundtables (SRRT and NMRT) and want to become more involved, especially with SRRT. There is going to be an event about the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street, which I plan to attend. Despite a hectic schedule this past year, I have been keeping up with the Occupy movement and would love to hear more about the grassroots organizing and involvement of librarians with the People's Library.