Submission deadline for the Mobilivre Bookmobile project is coming up. [thanks jill]

This is probably of interest to no one but me, but if you'd like to see photos of the conference I attended in Australia, they are now online along with some cool desktop wallpaper images.

Two small highlights of my trip. One, seeing Eli's smiling face on the projection screen at the ALIA dinner. Apparently the ALIA New Graduate's group had borrowed a powerpoint presentation from ALA's New Members Round Table with some headshots and little quotes from people about being a new librarian. I looked up from my drink, halfway around the world, and saw Eli and nearly sprayed soda on my tablemates saying "I know her!" Second highlight, flying home and catching some of the Geminid meteor shower from the window of the plane.

I rarely link to library programming ideas here, but I mist say that the Friday night events that the La Crosse WI library is holding for the wives of deer hunters really sounds like something libraries out this way should be thinking about.

I'm just going to be hurling some links up here today. The talks from the Dartmouth conference I was at on Thursday are now all online linked at the end of each presentation. There were some really great ideas about library outreach and assessment put up, I recommed you take a look at a few things librarians are doing. They also did another cool thing [in addition to being fierce about the time limits for talks] which was to have a conference evaluation online. They sent an email reminder with a link to the evaluation form. Anyone who filled out the fairly detailed evaluation form -- which had an entry for rating each presentation -- would be eligible for a $75 gift certificate for something or other. It added $75 plus staff time to the conference budget but I bet they get nearly 100% return rate on their evaluations. Smart!

Very rough notes from the Dartmouth Conference are online now. I'm heading out for Indian food. One side benefit of leaving the state is that going out for "ethnic" food doesn't automatically mean Italian.

I don't see as many companion sites hyping Banned Book Week this year as in previous years. Maybe they're just waiting until Monday, but there's nothing on the Library of Congress Center for the Book site, nothing on People for the American Way and nothing on the National Coalition Against Censorship site. PFAW does have a great little news bit about a mailer that the GOP is sending to voters in Arkansas implying that liberal politicians, if elected, would ban the bible.

If anyone is in the Northern New England area and wants to consider attending this one day conference Beyond the Building: Taking the Library to Our Users, I'd be up for it.