After 10 years of waiting, 4,000+ information professionals from SLA are in our town! Toronto mayor, David Miller, proclaimed this Special Library Week. What a busy schedule — workshops, meetings, receptions, award presentaitons on the weekend and today, opening keynote with Don Tapscott (more on his talk later).

Today I received the Karen J. Switt Leadership Award from the Leadership and Development division of SLA — and was I honoured! So wonderful to receive in the city where I attended my first SLA conference in 1974 as a newly minted librarian; and in front of my family, friends, mentors, coahes and colleagues. Thanks to the C. Berger Group for sponsoring this award.