Someday my Printz Will Come

Some thoughts while waiting to go out to attend the Printz awards. (The Printz award is the medal given annually to the most outstanding Young Adult book the previous year. The winner is announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting)

• Saw a college friend of mine who's a college librarian receive an award yesterday. It's for a project involved digitizing posters from World War II.
• Went to the ALA store, today. Bought some READ baseball hats for some friends' kids, as well as a coffee mug that had the Dewey Decimal numbers for Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows. I also bought a pack of READ Wonder Woman bookmarks for a friend of mine.
• Ran into Sunny from Metrowest, as well as Maureen, the YS Consultant from CMRLS.
  
• Did a few touristy things. Last night I had dinner near Wrigleyville and walked by Wrigley Field. A game was going on so there was quite a crowd. We took our picture near the Harry Cary statue. I also went to the Sears Tower with a fellow librarian from Woburn. (It's now called the Willis Tower, but no-one calls it that). We were in line for a long time but it was worth it. I also stood on the glass botton ledge which was cool but not as frightening as I was afraid it was going to be.
• My dinner last night was with a librarian friend from Malden as well as some of her friends, including a music librarian from NYU and a librarian from the Brooklyn Public Library. They're all very involved in ALA, so it was interesting to hear about the history of the organization from those who've been there. I also always enjoy hearing about other librarians' jobs.