ALA All Conference Reception Held in Great Hall

摘要

Wearing shorts and T-shirts, business suits, party attire, LC Bicentennial buttons and ALA badges, between 5,000 and 6,000 librarians streamed through the west front doors of the Jefferson Building for an all-conference reception on a steamy Saturday night, June 27. In Washington for the American Library Association Annual Meeting, they basked in the grandeur of the Great Hall, queued up to enter the Main Reading Room through the rarely opened doors from the Great Hall, ogled Blashfield's painting of Human Understanding spotlighted in the dome 150 feet above the main desk, tapped keyboards in the Computer Catalog Center, peeked into the Members' Room and followed their maps to area studies reading rooms and the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room.