For once the room chosen for Battledecks* could accommodate the numbers who showed up to watch the competitive melee. In past library conferences the rooms for the activity have always attracted more than there were seats so that the overflow have had to lean or sit against the wall or wherever creative space usage led them.
The Conference Center was saving on ventilation or perhaps there was a wish to change the room into a sauna, while the number of endotherms added to the tropical climate. Those who brought along chocolate bars soon had the opportunity to drink them as hot chocolate.
*For this game the contestants, in isolation from each other, see a series of miscellaneous slides to which they must ad lib a narrative thread within a limited time. The slides are not chosen for their mundanity.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Meting Punishment
Hollywood makes movies about police and their work, business people and their work, and even teachers and their work, but it doesn't make movies about librarians and what they do, and that goes octuple-squared for librarian meetings. Such drama and clashes that exist are the equivalent of "The Rape of the Lock" without the satire. The subjects and the working-out of solutions are no 12 Angry Men, and come closer to No Exit. Maybe that's why the meetings are so enjoyable.
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