I'm late to the game on these, but I want to make sure I highlight a couple of really great initiatives from incoming, blogging, and Flickring ALA president Leslie Burger (and yes, it still feels good to be able to use all three of those adjectives in regards to the ALA President!). Less than a month to go!

1. "ALA President-Elect Leslie Burger will host a gathering for bloggers in her suite at the Hilton on Saturday June 24th after the Scholarship Bash (starting around 10:30 pm and going until midnight). It will be an informal event, great for networking, unwinding and catching up with bibliobloggers both old and new." [Library Garden] Click on the link to RSVP in the comments or via email!
2. Leslie has also asked me to help publicize her call for stories about libraries transforming their communities (her theme for the year). From her letter:

   "Libraries Transform Communities is the theme I have chosen for my presidential initiative. We know that when libraries are transformed either by new service programs, renovations, or new buildings that the communities they serve are in turn transformed. Part of the initiative is to create a Transformation Tool Kit, which will have tips and ideas for how to transform your library, and stories from libraries that have been transformed.

   This is where I need your help, send in your transformation stories and photographs. Explain briefly how your library been changed? How have your library users and community been transformed? The stories and photographs that you submit will be featured on my website, http://lb.princetonlibrary.org.

   Send all materials to Romina Gutierrez at rgutierrez@princetonlibrary.org as soon as possible.

   I hope you share your transformation stories with me and with the library community!"

I'll be in New Orleans for this month's ALA Conference (conference wiki here), and I hope to blog quite a bit from it, including from some of Leslie's events.