Tomorrow I plan to spend a few hours at the Indiana Library Federation annual conference. Why is it a Federation rather than an Association? I don’t know. Michael Gorman is the keynote speaker tomorrow morning so I’m planning on wearing my “One of the Blog People” button. Should be an interesting contrast to last week’s CIL.

Thinking back on CIL, the thing that puzzled me most was why, in so many sessions, when the scheduled speakers finished their talks and the moderator announced it was time for questions and answers, did a sizeable percentage of the audience walk out? To me, the Q&A is the best part. Although I have to admit that Scott Brandt perhaps took that idea to extremes when, in the session on Teaching Roles of Librarians, where neither scheduled speaker was able to attend (both had deaths in the family), he conducted the entire 45 minutes as Q&A. From everything I heard, it turned out to be a great session and I can think of very few people who know the topic as thoroughly as Scott or who can facilitate a discussion as well as he can.