Virtual conferences
Can’t make it to ASLA 2009, the biennial conference of the Australian School Library Association? It’s being held in Perth as we speak (and the weather is looking less dodgy than in recent weeks, too).
Set your Twitter client of choice to receive updates using hashtag #asla2009 and you can pretend you are there. Formal tweets from the committee and informal ones from attendees are already starting to fly.
Authors in attendance include Libby Gleeson, Leonie Norrington, Karen Tayleur, Mike and Joy Lefroy, Alice Pung and Kate McCaffrey.
The conference finishes on Friday, which just gives you enough time to catch your breath before heading to Chicago.
Why? Because that’s where the IBBY Regional Conference is being held at the weekend. And all the plenary sessions will be webcast. Just make sure your Flash is up to date. Here’s the program. It only starts with Shaun Tan and David Wiesner in conversation about illustration. Oh, and Katherine Paterson is putting in an appearance too. Just a little conference then. If it’s being tweeted we’ll let you know the hashtag. Via Twitter of course.
