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Thursday afternoon: Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: the Modern Landscape is this summer's big show at the Art Institute. I'd heard of Van Gogh and Seurat, of course, but I was not familiar with their contemporaries Signac, Bernard, and Angrand.
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The American Library Association held its 147th Annual Conference at McCormick Place in Chicago from June 22-27. I was among the 15,842 attendees. That's more than last year (Washington, DC: 13,900) but not back to pre-pandemic (Chicago, 2017: 22,702).
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I attended the Freedom to Read Foundation board meeting on Thursday as liaison for the Retired Members Round Table. FTRF and the Office of Intellectual Freedom have been busy dealing confronting threats to intellectual freedom -- book bans in school and public libraries, and curriculum, inquiry, and tenure in colleges and universities.
I went ...
read moreAfter two years of virtual meetings the ALA Annual Conference returned in-person. The 13,900 registrants included 8.023 librarians (and trustees, friends, family) and 5,133 vendors (books, equipment, technology, supplies, and more). (By contrast, 2019 in DC: 21,460 and 2019 in New Orleans: 17,599.)
My trip to Washington was the first time I'd flown since February, 2020. Though O'Hare was bustling (9:30 a.m. flight) the lines moved quickly. I snapped photos of the Lake Michigan and Lake Erie shorelines.
Friday afternoon: reception for ALA benefactors and leaders at the Library of Congress ...
read moreMy One Monthly Goal for June was to decide on the block and design for the wedding quilt. I have many ideas but I don't have a decision. I'm close. I think.
The ALA virtual conference ended on Tuesday. Lonnie Bunch, Secretary of the Smithsonian (and former president of the Chicago History Museum) interviewed Pres. Barack Obama. In 2005 I was in the third row when then-Sen. Obama was the featured speaker at the opening session of the ALA Annual Conference. Sixteen years I had a front row seat in my studio and my husband was in the ... read more
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If these were ordinary times I wouldn't be composing a blog post this weekend. I'd be caught up in the activities of the American Library Association Annual Conference. Well, I still was, but the event was virtual and I attended from the comfort of home. I had committee meetings on Thursday, Saturday, and today (Sunday).
Saturday morning I moderated the Retired Members Round Table program featuring Pamela Bannos, a art history/photography professor at Northwestern, whose has done extensive research on Vivian Maier. The book is subitled, "A photographer's life and after life."
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