Like many of you, I participated in the NCLA conference last week. As a first-timer, whatever expectations I brought with me stemmed from recollections of other state conferences I have attended. At those other state conferences I remember small crowds, grim venues, lackluster, scanty-attended sessions, cliques of old friends roaming in exclusive “packs,” and a general sense that the state conference was a prelude to some other, bigger event, for which the attendees were saving their best. In short, these weren’t my favorite conferences.
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