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June 27, 2004

I hate traffic!

I went to ALA Saturday. I missed the meeting I wanted to attend; I-4 was a parking lot. However I did make it to the Florida State University School of Information Studies booth.

I did manage to make it around to about half of the exhibits as well. I really like the publishers’ exhibits and the Mexican and Spanish publishers exhibits had some great stuff. I wanted to load up the car with stuff. I could certainly do Spanish language collection development for a living.


One of the publishers was giving out free copies of the Qur’an. I have been meaning to get an English translation of the Qur’an for some time now but it never got to the top of my list. Now I have a free copy! The publisher is Tahrike Tarsile Qur’am Inc. . Now I just need to make time to read in.


So Sunday I have some other meetings I want to go to and I’ll be manning the FSU booth in the afternoon. Then FSU has a reception for our retiring dean and then I get to watch the duck parade at the Peabody.


I have a wonderful idea for research. I have noticed what appears to be a greater number of red haired people at the ALA annual than the general population. Now being a great fan of ruby haired lasses I think this would be a most interesting undertaking. The end product would be useless, but what fun the mechanics of the study would be.


Posted by Matthew at June 27, 2004 07:27 AM

Comments

I think a lot of female librarians dye their hair red to make themselves feel/appear less "boring". I've noticed this trend myself!

Posted by: christine at June 28, 2004 07:43 PM

Don't know if it's just the library world--at one point in my quit smoking group out of the 12 or so women there, about 8 of us had red hair. I was one of them although it's not my natural colour.

Oh, and Matthew, this study, will it include just natural redheads? Or will you include the dyed red heads, too...of course that would bring up the question of how you'd be able to confirm that bit of information....;)

s/

Posted by: slashgirl at June 30, 2004 07:41 AM