Some last conference musings (would like to hear your thoughts);Blogging — I tried something new this year, brought my laptop, took notes on it during the session and posted right after the session. One plus, I feel that the blog had more detail about the session. One minus, I am not sure the “reflection” piece got there. My question to myself is how to make sure the reflection gets there. I am hoping more people will blog sessions now that they are back at “school”.Sessions — There was a good mix of sessions, a good balance between Information Literacy, Web 2.0/Library 2.0 and Literature to include author sessions. Though I didn’t go to any literature sessions this time, I did find lots on the vendor floor. I only wish more sessions could be repeated, two I wanted to go to were booked full, no one else allowed in the room. One session did get repeated but that was after a big crowd and many turned away frustrated people.Vendors– So much to see! After mailing one box and one poster tube, I then collected another bag of stuff that almost didn’t fit in the suitcase.–I did notice that very few vendors had any specific library equipment. There was library furniture. There were die cut machines, one booth had digital camera sets, but no one really had any library specific equipment such as bar code scanners. I can’t help wondering why. True, bar code scanners aren’t very interesting but I remember going to a previous AASL seeing scanners and wound up purchasing one. –Is there nothing NEW in this area (equipment)? In terms of technology the vendor floor had information providers and automation programs but no equipment. Are there no new equipment needs other than workstations? Or do vendors not see librarians as people who can affect purchase sales? If so, then I think they may have missed the boat.Going GreenNot printing handouts really didn’t make this a green conference. …

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