AALL 2014: San Antonio

In July, several AzALL members traveled to San Antonio for the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference. The programs I attended include:

• Chapter Summit
• Chapter Legal Issues
• Leadership Training
• Opening General Session with keynote speaker Andrew Keen
• Vendor Shootout at the Alamo: Current Awareness Tools
• Librarians and Law Firm Pricing: Learn the Stakes, Get Involved
• ALM Legal Intelligence Law Librarian Survey Presentation
• Own the Room: Presentations That Captivate and Win Over Any Audience
• Land Grabbing: Accessing Information to Protect Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Using Patents to Expand the Boundaries of Business Development and Competitive Intelligence
• Emerging Issues in Copyright: What You Need to Know
• Strategic Technology Imperatives for Law Librarians

I will post more about some of these later.  But first: pictures!

View of the Convention Center from my hotel, the Marriott Riverwalk.

The Riverwalk outside the Convention Center.

View from a River Taxi.

The San Antonio Museum of Art.

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo.

The Alamo shrine.

The Liberty Bar: Southtown restaurant in a converted convent.

Me (and my horribly humidity-swollen legs) with a longhorn at the Thomson Reuters party at Knibbe Ranch.