Henry Green's remarkable trilogy of novels, Living, Loving and Party Going, could have been followed by a fourth on conferences. This thought was prompted by a post on the excellent American team blog, In the Library with the Lead Pipe, on the matter of library conferences. They discuss the various conferences American librarians attend; I wonder if we should not record the British experience too.
My conference going hey-day was in the late years of the last centruty and the early years of this. It was a heroic era. Tony McSéan, then Librarian at the British Medical Association, even proposed a journal, the Journal of Airport Librarianship, for those who spent more time in airports than in the libraries they were supposed to run. The joke was told of Derek Law, then at Kings College London,
Q: what's the difference between Derek Law and God?
A: God is everywhere; Derek Law is everywhere but Kings
See also Joeyanne Libraryanne's post, Conference Advice
