I’m happy to say that I’ll be presenting at the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference in April. I’ll be talking about the Library Society of the World, and the global librarian hive mind. Or something like that. It will be my first presentation at a national conference, and I’m excited.

I’ll be sharing the stage with Josh Neff and Rikhei Harris. I have never met either of them in real life. Is it true that Josh is seven foot five inches tall? And is it RICK-hey or ree-KAI or what? And will they feel threatned by my William Shatner-like onstage manner?

It’s interesting. I had been really anxious to know whether this proposal would get accepted. Now that it has, I already have the feeling “we can’t present on that! This will never work!” That feeling is a little unnerving, but familiar. I had a theatrical design professor in college who told us that, in any project interesting enough to be worth doing you’ll come to a point where you think “I just can’t do this.” All you con do at that point is hang on and have faith that you can do it, and you will inevitably push through to something better than you thought you could do.

It also looks like Computers in Libraries will be a great opportunity for me to finally meet all these people in person that I have met online over the past few years. It’s a little wild to think about that actually; it has the potential to be overwhelming. All those people to whom I have said “I’ll buy you a drink” all looking to collect at once! Not to mention the pressure of having to kick Libraryman’s ass at Guitar Hero! (He looks pretty studly in that photo. I think I may be in trouble on that one.)