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The winners of the Apple iPhone drawing are: Nancy Hicks of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Panama City, Florida Mitchell Brown of the University of California at Irvine These lucky two have won four nights of accommodations in Washington, D.C., for SLA 2009: Barbara Friedman of CyberTools for

Exhibition and attendance figures for the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) annual conference and INFO-EXPO held in Seattle, 15 - 18 June, exceeded planners' expectations and included, for the second year in a row, SLA members from every chapter around the globe.

See You in DC ITI Bloggers June 23rd, 2008 Until next June, this is the SLA Information Today blog signing off! But we’ll be covering other conferences in between, so do check back. Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals

On to Washington DC ITI Bloggers June 23rd, 2008 There’s a very old joke that goes something like this: "What does the DC in Washington DC stand for? Oh, that’s easy, it stands for Da Capital." OK, not all that funny and you very likely know that DC really stands for District of Columbia.

SLA + Seattle = Success ITI Bloggers June 23rd, 2008 Here are the official numbers from SLA’s 2008 annual conference in Seattle: There were 5,011 total registrants, 845 first time attendees, 1,681 exhibitor registrants, 464 booths, 283 companies, and 50 new exhibitors.

So I’m back from Seattle, after a great first conference and just wanted to try to collect some thoughts. Seattle was a great location. Lots of great restaurants near the convention center and hotels, easy to get to the monorail, public library, market, and other interesting locations.

Farewell Reception ITI Bloggers June 20th, 2008 New this year was a farewell reception following the final session and business meeting. Attendees enjoyed food and drink in a beautiful atmosphere. Don Hawkins Columnist, Information Today

Seth Godin—Marketing Man Extraordinaire ITI Bloggers June 20th, 2008 Some of us may have had doubts about hearing a keynote address by someone who wrote a marketing book titled Meatball Sundae. What does this have to do with librarians? But, any reservations changed quickly to anticipation when I checked him out before the event.

Get Your Meatballs…Godin Book Signing ITI Bloggers June 20th, 2008 Seth Godin met some fans and signed copies of his books before his presentation in the closing session. As he later said, Digital stuff needs to spread–the souvenir stuff we need to keep and treasure. Paula J.

SLA2008 in a cloud Originally uploaded by nengard I decided to play with Wordle. I didn't have a paper or article that I wanted to use, so instead I decided to generate a cloud for the blog posts I wrote during SLA 2008. I think this is the perfect image of what I learned.