#alamw13 Top Ten (plus) Tweets – Day 2 (Saturday)

January 27, 2013

One of the common threads in #alamw13 tweets is attendees' amazement at the sheer quantity of it all: Many, many, many of you wish you could attend more sessions and collect more books or ARCs from the exhibit hall (while a few have tried to grab all the books and felt the wrath of physics upon their shoulders). Someday, perhaps, we'll just duplicate the #alamw13 feed as our Top Tweets and call it a day.

That day isn't today, however, although the choices were awfully tough. #alamw13 was trending, so there was a huge quantity of tweets to choose from. We had to cut Blackadder! And bacon! (Want to see all of the tweets we were considering? If you're logged into Twitter, check out our Favorites list.)

While hard choices had to be made, plenty of ALA business bubbled up as clear choices: The #Dewey vs. Genre Shelving session provoked heated debate, while Steven Johnson, Libraries Transforming Communities, the Library BoingBoing meeting, and others inspired. Here are our favorites of our favorites:

I've never frequented a tag so popular that it gets trolls and spammers. Yay? #alamw13

"Chance favors the connected mind," StevenBJohnson #alamw13 @alamw Libraries are the place for this?!?

Super-innovative professionals tend to have far more diverse professional networks. Per Stanford study of 10yrs ago, by Roiphe. #alamw13

The thing I find most striking about the people I've met so far at #alamw13 is how youthful and vibrant they all are, even the 'shy' ones.

Rich Harwood is echoing question I've heard @activelearning ask many times: how are libraries creating impact in community? #alamw13

#Dewey Take this outside? Sounds like a call for a brawl, but I think we have lots of common ground: we want kids to love learning and reading

IMHO, the issue is FINDABILITY. #Dewey works if students can find it in OPAC. The important thing is good subject cataloging.

The ALCTS/LITA metadata committee at #alamw13 is the best-attended committee meeting I've seen in a while. Joint meetings rock.

God I hate conference chairs. #conferencebutt #alamw13

Wait, am I now writing something for #LibraryBoingBoing on Goucher's Austen programming? Now I know what the mimosas were for... #alamw13

At the #boingboing meeting and brainstorming about making every Monday in May #makermonday at libraries #alamw13 @pcsweeney rocks

It took Metallica 9 years to understand how people engage music in the digital world. I hope it doesn't take publishers that long #alamw13

This conference is germs' heaven. So many librarians so much coughing. #alamw13

Noticing a tension librarians have b/t control (metrics, definitions) and possibility (brainstorming, 'yes, and') #alamw13

I went from Midwinter-bound to #alaleftbehind b/c of a cancelled connecting flight. On a partial social media ban so my heart doesn't break.

This time tomorrow Seattle will be dripping with #nerdybookclub paint. Hoo-rah! #alamw13

We like to think we transcend outdated stereotypes, but the packs of #alamw13 librarians downtown are rather conspicuous. Nice glasses, BTW

When lib staff are counted among civic leaders, it's politically difficult to cut lib budget. Become an insider. #alamw13

"Just get started. Innovate, recalibrate, learn, repeat." Words of wisdom from Ohio's own Carlton Sears. #alamw13

And a bonus tweet, if such a distinction is relevant when "Top Ten" is so loose a term already:

#igniteala you can't achieve awesomeness by asking for permission #alamw13 keep moving forward

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