Today was the last day of the main conference portion of NCTE. Today was also the day the exhibitors left. Needless to say, it was a bit of a mad house!
My Schedule:
Session L: 8:30-9:45
L.25 21st Century Literacies
Stephanie Perkins Signing 10:30-11:30
Session M: 11:30-12:45
M.49 Teaching Literacy for Love & Wisdom
Session N: 1:00-2:45
N.01 Reports from Cyberspace
At least that's how my day was suppose to go. It didn't work out that way.
I was running late this morning, so I didn't even make it until 8:45. I suppose I could've gone to my first session still, but I feel it is very rude to enter late. Therefore, I went to wait to get into the Exhibit Hall. I had a really great conversation with a librarian from Chicago (I love talking to librarians who are my age to learn how they got their job). I'm actually really happy that I went to wait for the Exhibit Hall because were the teachers going crazy. Penguin waited until the last day to put out some amazing ARCs, as did some of the other publishers. Additionally, some publishers had immediately discounted books to super cheap or were giving books away! It was pretty amazing, but a nightmare for someone claustrophobic as there was a lot of squished bodies reaching for books.
After that I asked the amazing ladies at Penguin when they were starting the line for Stephanie Perkins, as Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler were signing that morning. That's when I found out my program LIED to me!! At the beginning of the conference, we were given an Author Signing program; inside it says Stephanie was suppose to be signing at Penguin at 10:30. Lies! Then I thought I had gotten the booth wrong, as I didn't have my schedule. To investigate I headed over to the Anderson's Bookshop booth where many authors were signing. Nope, not there either. Come to find out, after reading her tweet response to someone else, she's not going to be here until tomorrow! Grrr NCTE! Get things right! Anyway, by that time I was caught up in the discount frenzy, so that's how I spent the next 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Then I went on to my last two sessions, both of which were fantastic! My favorite topics to focus on during conferences are GLBT lit, 21st Century Tech, and Censorship. I was lucky to get to go to all three. Then it was definitely time to lug my books back to the hotel. I can't wait until tomorrow for ALAN (which Stephanie will be at, along with an AWESOME YA Author panel at Anderson's Bookshop, which I am going to!!!). I've never been to ALAN, but I've heard it is utterly amazing!
And here's my loot from today (when I get back home I'm doing a IMM like no other).
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