Adventures in the UAE #sibfala15

Robert & I were honored and delighted to be part of this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair and ALA Conference in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates last week. Michael Dowling, Director of ALA International Relations & Chapter Relations, and the Sharjah Book Authority (the organizers of the Book Fair) were the most gracious hosts, and such a pleasure to work with. You can get a good overview of the conference activities from this write-up of the conference that appeared in American Libraries yesterday.

We enjoyed the opportunity to meet and/or reconnect with so many lovely people both from the Middle East and here in the States – including some fellow Indiana University library school alums! We also had the opportunity to do just a little bit of touristing. I’m hoping to write up some reflections in my personal blog, but until then, let me share with you just a few photos …

Slides from my talk, “From Anywhere Library to Everywhere Library: Creating a User Experience Strategy for Mobile” are available online at: https://iu.box.com/SIBFALA15

I pulled together the tweets and such from the conference into a Storify.