Top Ten Tweets—Friday (Day 1)

By Julie Cai | January 10, 2016

The countdown to Midwinter 2016 is over. Midwinter is here! It’s day one and excitement is stirring IRL (in real life) and on the interwebs. Follow #alamw16 to keep up with what’s going on in Boston:

You never know who you will meet at conference!

23% of future librarian couples first met on a conference shuttle bus #alamw16

— Fake Library Statistics (@FakeLibStats) January 8, 2016

This real talk delivered by author Cassandra Clare:

https://twitter.com/TiffanyE/status/685658983953264641
The opening day of exhibits is always exciting.

Now I see why this is called the "running of the librarians." #exhibithall #alamw16

— 📚 ☕️ 🏳️‍🌈 (@booksnyarn) January 8, 2016

Stages of picking up ARCS #alamw16
-Look around look around how lucky we are to be alive right now
-Helpless
-Lord help me say no to this

— Martha Mihalick (@MarthaMihalick) January 9, 2016

Star Wars fans got to live their lightsaber-wielding dreams at conference!

https://twitter.com/alidahanson/status/685501036019200000

I made a light saber at Parts and Crafts! https://t.co/Pi2M2QGb41 #alamw16 pic.twitter.com/gvVidG9SWW

— zemkat (@zemkat) January 8, 2016

Light sabers + makerspace tours = awesome! Loving the start of my 1st #alamw16 #parts&crafts #Somerville #alalita pic.twitter.com/dXZn3qOVQs

— Nick Grove (@nickgrove15) January 8, 2016

We don’t forget about the ALA Left Behind!

Welp, guess who just joined #alaleftbehind? Hello other people silently dying over not being there too…have a tissue…#alamw16

— Angel – FREE P A L ESTINE (@AvidReaderBlog) January 8, 2016

If you can't tell, I'm not at #alamw16 so of course I'm RTing almost every tweet on it and living vicariously through them….#ineedalife

— Angel – FREE P A L ESTINE (@AvidReaderBlog) January 8, 2016

Stop by the ALA Lounge for a picture at our photo booth!

@alamw pic.twitter.com/ptJksx6HjU

— Sari Feldman (@sari_feldman) January 8, 2016

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