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For the past three days, I have kept myself mostly focused on the American Library Association Conference taking place in DC this year, attending sessions that have sometimes been interesting and occasionally been useful, especially as they have given me a sense of some of the things that are currently happening in the world of libraries and especially their technical services. A lot of the time, however, trying to figure out which sessions I was attending and plowing through this weekend have left me stressed and worn, to the point that I was seriously debating whether it's at all been worth the effort. Three long years after I first braved the in person ALA, I'd forgotten about that part.
We couldn't ignore current events completely, of course. In fact, Saturday morning, I attended a session on censorship and digitization, and the first presenter, who was presenting on the Library of Congress, started with a photo she'd managed to get her hands on, taken the previous day, where behind the protestors in front of the Supreme Court, the Jefferson Building of the Library was visible. The institutions of this country have always been broken. The questions have always been whether they were fixable, what must be done if so, and also what must be done if not. I can hear the arguments on the first question when it comes to one institution, but well, I think I know what the answer must now ultimately be.
We couldn't ignore current events completely, of course. In fact, Saturday morning, I attended a session on censorship and digitization, and the first presenter, who was presenting on the Library of Congress, started with a photo she'd managed to get her hands on, taken the previous day, where behind the protestors in front of the Supreme Court, the Jefferson Building of the Library was visible. The institutions of this country have always been broken. The questions have always been whether they were fixable, what must be done if so, and also what must be done if not. I can hear the arguments on the first question when it comes to one institution, but well, I think I know what the answer must now ultimately be.