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ALA 2006 in New Orleans
SUNO partners met for dinner at the Praline Connection Friday June 23
Address: 542 Frenchman St. Here's a map.
The Praline Connection serves delicious southern-creole soul food restaurant on the outskirts of the French Quarter. Prof. John Wedman, who heads MU's School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, picked up the tab for all comers and urged everyone to use the money they'd have spent on food on "something good." It was a little loud (but fun loud!) in the restaurant, and the table a little long, to have a meeting per se, but we still had some good, productive conversations about what libraries are doing, and it seemed like a good time was had by all, getting to know one another while enjoying New Orleans soul food...piles of greens, seafood, sweet potato pie, etc..
Partners agreed that while sending selected used books can help meet some immediate needs, what we all really want to work on is setting up good ways to send money as easily and directly as possible to the SUNO library. MU (John Wedman and I - RB) has committed to work further with SUNO to find the best mechanisms to do transfer funds. Possible options we'll look into include amazon.com's Honor System, a PayPal account, or a credit account with SUNO's preferred book vendor.
Here are a photo and another photo taken at our suppertime gathering. Dr. Mary Penny, director of the SUNO library, and her husband, who is a SUNO professor, are seated at the near end of the table in the second photo.
Getting Books to New Orleans for ALA -- photos posted!
Charley Seavey of MU's School of Information Science & Learning Technologies has volunteered to drive our books down to SUNO himself, saving us time and cabfare. Here's a photo of Jeremy Clark (the loader), Charley Seavey (the hauler), Kathy Peters and me (2 of the gatherers & sorters -- not pictured is Wayne Sanders, another hardworking gatherer/sorter who had already left for ALA) with the pallet of books in Missouri around 11 a.m June 22. And here is a photo of the sign by the entrance of SUNO's temporary trailer campus, taken Friday June 23. Here (and here) are Prof. Seavey and Laurie Gaillard of SUNO, unloading the books onto a book cart and into the double-wide trailer that now serves as a library. Here are the two principal book unloaders along with SUNO's ALA Partnership coordinator, Rosanna Giusti...holding the same books we saw being loaded earlier in Missouri.
SUNO is beginning to build a reading room. This is what you see when you first go into the reading room from the office/processing half of the trailer. This is one bookshelf. On Friday June 23, members of the Black Caucus of the ALA were volunteering at SUNO. They were mainly getting books donated from various places ready for the shelves. The volunteer group kindly let me (Rachel, MU) ride back to the Convention Center on their bus and let me be in their group photo upon arrival there.
Directory of Partner Libraries' SUNO-related Websites
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*University of Missouri
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Rachel Brekhus' flickr page where you can view more photos taken during the ALA convention. So far I only have about 20 of my 100+ photos loaded there, so check back later for more. The dog wearing the Mardi Gras beads belongs to my mother's cousin Doris, who lives in a part of Metairie that did not see nearly as much damage as most of the rest of the city.
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