I flew into John Wayne airport (aka Orange County airport) yesterday to attend the annual conference of the American Library Association. I haven’t flown into JW in years and am just astonished at how it’s grown! I went over to the conference center to register. Registration was inside the exhibit hall, but separated from the actual exhibits. Still, you could see that this exhibit hall is bigger than ever! And looking at the final program, I quickly realized that sessions I want to attend are spread out all over the Disneyland area. This morning, for example, I’d really like to sample three different sessions, but one is in the Hyatt, one’s in the Hilton, and the third is in the conference center. Sheesh!

Information Today Inc is exhibiting and they do have some free copies of ONLINE, so come by Booth 439 and pick one up! We did have the insane idea of trying to blog ALA as we did SLA, but came to our senses when we realized there would be only 2 of us available to blog. I’ll cover as much as I can, but it won’t come close to the group blogging effort earlier this month in Seattle.