I'm back this week from MLA 2010--actually only my second time attending the national conference, since it was in Hawaii last year and my budget did not quite extend that far. I had three main agenda items this year: the Books Panel meeting and presenting a poster and paper.

I've signed up for a quick, one-day workshop on metadata for digital collections from NYLINK. I did quite a bit of cataloging in my internship, but it was mostly pre-1950 serials in French, which is a pretty different beast. Hopefully this class will get me oriented on my METS and MODS--just in time for code4lib 2009.

My trip for October was to the LITA National Forum 2008. The deadline for proposals was too early last year for me to put anything in but several very useful sessions made it worthwhile. Looking at the call for proposals for next year in Salt Lake City.