Canada!

I'm in Canada and it's beautiful. This is rather surprising to me. I like to make fun of Canada--it's such an odd country: American...but not and with some French thrown in.

The American Theological Library Association meeting is in Ottawa this year and I am excited to see the Houses of Parliament. Really. I've only seen them from a distance but they look totally amazing.

The conference is pretty good. The director of University of Ottawa Libraries gave the plenary this morning. The US could learn a lot from the cross provincial projects the libraries up here conduct. Not only does Canada have national healthcare, they also invest in their libraries. It took me awhile to identify the emotion I was feeling the speech, but now I realize it's jealousy.

Blame Canada!!!!