Friday, September 5, 2014

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.