Blogging the Long Island Library Conference Live

1:50pm
I am probably behind the times. Googly Analytics has just been unveiled to me. This is absolutely earth shattering. I am even going to implement this on my library website immediately, if not sooner, tomorrow.

11:30 - 12:35pm
Our speaker for this hour is Dr. Duffy Spencer, talking about how to literally "Deal with difficult people". The least of which is ourselves. The central theme is first to acknowledge and identify the emotions internally triggered, before dealing with the source of what is triggering them. And then why is this person triggering those particular.

With the internal pressures talked about Dr. Spencer regaled us with the differences that can occur among different personality types. And how these clashes can sometimes just result in natural sparks, that can then quickly ignite into a fire.

After talking about all these different internal and external triggers Dr Spencer the problem now becomes how to realistically deal with these triggers. And also the internal realization about how we can unintentionally reprocess external stimuli.

11:00am
Spent two hours looking over all the vendors, and the different exhibitions. Lots of different people, products, and personalities. Feet tired. Also after careful thought I have decided how to deal with difficult people. Well that being the next seminar about how to deal with the public side of librarianship. And everyone knows that there are tight spots at times.

8:00am - 9:05am
I am in a program being hosted by author Brian Heinz. He is talking about the ways authors work. The process behind how all this imagery is placed from the mind as the written word. And also about how to teach this to kids. The sheer amount of experiences, and just sheer research that goes into each page is just phenomenal. Mr. Heinz goes out into the wild to research and experience first hand what the characters in his books go through. He uses his direct experience as inspiration for his books. He has gone to all the places where his books take place to personally research.

WOW. Apparently authors do not work directly with the illustrators, but this could just be how Mr. Heinz works. And then separately the illustrators work to bring the authors words to visual life. It is just fascinating the different ways writers work. He broke down his process so that students may also be able to use his methods to work out their own stories, and be able to put pen to paper.

He read some of the letters sent in by students, librarians, and teachers. It is really startling to just hear some of the candid reactions that people have sent in.

8:00am
So the actual conference is taking place inside the beautiful Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. A separate space for both the vendors, and also the all the different library associations and their various divisions. Everyone has a raffle of some sort going on. Everyone is absolutely friendly and I even ran across a few divisions I have not heard of. Well off to the first program.

7:22am
Only thing new to report is I am now entered into the newbie raffle, and the regular raffle. If I win I am keeping it.

7:20am
I arrived absolutely without incident. With the only real problem being technical in nature and taking 15 minutes to sort out. So I am now online. And thanks to the very nice people of the LILC committee am now able to continue giving you riveting news about the sites, sounds, and people at this conference. Also since I have enabled my camera pictures will follow at some point.