finding me at SLA 2005

As indicated on my conference plan, I will be at SLA 2005 from June 6-8.
I have never actually been to an SLA conference before.
I may possibly show up at various venues, since CISTI is a member of many divisions.

Currently I am planning on going to the IT Division Science Fiction thing Monday June 6 at 8 PM, but it's possible instead that I will sleep.

I would have gone to a Tafelmusik concert but they're not playing in June :(

I will be unreachable June 2-5, after which I will try to be very reachable at the conference.

I will be blogging (and probably flickring) the conference under the SLA2005 tag.
I will be contributing to the main conference blog as well as blogging here.

Keep in mind that my background is physics and computer science, so please forgive if I blog sometimes along the lines of "some famous librarian that I have never heard of is talking about some widely-known library principles that I have never heard of".
I will be paying for wireless if it isn't otherwise available.

You can reach me via email (see the sidebar on the right), and read a tiny bit about me in the "ABOUT" thing on the right as well (it's not obvious that it's a link, but it is).

I am not normally on IM, but I will have it on at the conference.
I'll be using the Fire multi-IM client on the Mac.
Jabber: rakerman
AIM / iChat-AIM: richardakerman
(others available on request)

As you can see, I am not so much for the clever IM nicknames.
I am not actually of the IM generation, the only time I ever use it is to chat with one co-worker when I'm working at home, so it's entirely possible I will violate some sacred IM etiquette, or have no idea what I'm doing.

As for recognizing me, I may be wearing some or all of:
- the stylish and much sought-after Science Library Pad tshirt
- the classic ORA "I'm Blogging This" tee
- a Blogger hoodie
UPDATE 2005-06-07: I didn't actually manage to bring any of the above clothes.  Feel free to click through and admire/purchase an SLP tee tho :)

- a yellow SLA 2005 BLOGGER ribbon

I will also probablly be carrying around an MEC bag, in typical Canadian fashion.

If for some reason you're wondering what divisions and groups CISTI is in:

UNIT
Organizational Member
Information Technology Div
Pharmaceutical Division
Petro & Energy Resource Div
Eastern Canada Chapter
Toronto Chapter
Biomedical & Life Sci Division
Chemistry Division
Education Division
Competitive Intelligence Div
Engineering Division
Physics Astronomy Math Div
Transportation Division
Aerospace Section of Engineer
Materials Research & Manufact
Environment & Resource Mgt Div