The Overachieving Archivist: July 2014

Another summer, another annual meeting! Duke Divinity School Library Staff attended the American Theological Library Association Annual Conference in New Orleans two weeks ago. This was my first time in the NOLA and I lived it up, do you hear me?!? I walked the whole French Quarter, drank daiquiris, went on a ghost tour, visited a perfumeria, walked the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, ate until I grew tired of eating (Alligator, Po'Boys, Banana Foster New Orleans Style, Crawfish Hot Dogs, Beignets, Pralines, Fried Oysters, Shrimp, Bread Pudding, etc. etc.) all while nursing a terrible cold ( I just back from a cruise to the Bahamas the day before we left to NOLA. I think all the travel and airport air conditioning did me in.).

It wasn't all fun and games. I actually did some hard work presenting the following three sessions with colleagues:

Grant Assessment, Management and Reporting: Lessons Learned from The Religion in North Carolina Grant Project

What's Replacing Reference? New Models for Information ServicesThe Final Frontier: Events and Hospitality in the Theological Library Context

I also had a great time meeting up with other alumni from the Theological Librarianship Course at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and touring the city with members of the Diversity Committee (to which I was recently appointed by the Executive Director of ATLA) and L. Devezin, Director of The African American Resource Center (AARC) of the New Orleans Public Library.