ALA swag report
Things brought back from Chicago, a partial list:
- Beaded good-luck charm from vendor of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean books
- Posters from Casalini Libri and NYRB Classics
- Two NYRB Classics books: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam and a book on the
bog people in Denmark - Two back issues of Poetry, plus a Poetry Foundation magnet and button
- "So many books, so little time" t-shirt (on mail order)
- Print-on-demand copy of the Corriere della Sera from Milan, courtesy of the ProQuest booth
- Tiny paint set whose provenance I now forget
- Free pens, bookmarks, and highlighters from more vendors than can be enumerated
- Brochures from the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information
Science (I’m thinking seriously about applying to their LEEP
program) - Coasters from Wayne State University
- Dog-tag from RLG with Borges quotation: "I have always imagined Paradise to be a kind of library."
- The Faber Book of Opera (found not in exhibit hall but during all-too-short visit to Powell’s in Hyde Park, and pounced upon gleefully)
I too attended ALA and brought back many interesting things. I had my 16 year old son with me and he brought back a bunch of interesting graphic novels. You never know what you’ll find at a library conference.