Library Camping that is. Today is the first UK Library Camp
Library Camp 2011 is a place for anyone interested in modernising and transforming libraries of all kinds to ask, connect, consider, converse, convince, create, debate, deliberate, disagree, discover, discuss, dream, enjoy, examine, explore, invent, investigate, laugh, learn, listen, plan, plot, question, reflect, relax, share, talk, teach, theorise, think, wonder …and to eat cake!
Library Camp will run as an “unconference” where participants decide on the programme at the beginning of the event, working on the principle that the sum of the knowledge, experience and expertise of the people in the room is likely to be greater than that of those on the stage at traditional conferences.
My usual preferred sort of camping looks like this
The lake is optional, but the campfire and guitar are pretty essential for me. The two couldn’t be more different, and if I’m perfectly honest I’m pretty nervous about today’s sort of camp. There are going to be lots of people I know off Twitter to meet, which is exciting but scary (what if they all expect someone different to me?) and the current suggested sessions sound really interesting but I worry that I’m going to be doing a lot of listening without having much to contribute. I’m sure that once I’m there it’ll all go smoothly and I’ll have a great time, it’s been reassuring to see other attendees tweeting about similar nerves over the last couple of days. However it goes you can be sure I’ll be blogging about it in the next couple of days.
Juniper's Jungle 
Hi Jenni-
I’m Bud from the blog Sunday Stealing (http://sundaystealing.blogspot.com). Every week we rip a meme off someone’s blog. Today we chose one of yours from November of 2010. We give you full credit and link back to your blog. The great thing is that a lot of previous “victims” such as yourself have become regular players! We usually publish the blog between 1 and 3 PM EST Saturday. We usually get between 40 to 60 people who play and comment on each others responses. And a lot of our players are previous victims of our theft like you! We hope you play along in the weeks to come! Thank you and have a great day…
Bud
Hi Bud,
Thanks for visiting, Sunday Stealing sounds like great fun, I shall definitely pop over and check it out!
Library Camp! What a strange and interesting idea. I hope it went well for you! Were there campfires and guitars, because that sounds kind of awesome! I would have been freaked out about going, that sort of social interaction is incredibly scary for me.
Not a guitar or campfire in sight sadly, it was held indoors in inner city Birmingham. On the morning I was terrified but once I met up with some lovely people it got less scary.