IN THE BOOKS

摘要

The 2014 American Library Association (ala) annual conference, held June 26-July 1 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, saw some 13,019 attendees. Though this is a pretty substantial drop-off from the 20,237 attendees who came to Chicago in 2013, it is higher than the 12,000-plus folks who came to ALA in Anaheim, CA, in 2012. Critiques of the location, which has not hosted an ALA annual conference since 1973, included the vast distances between event sites and the expensive transportation-and, of course, the heat, which topped out at 111 degrees. However, those who did find their way to Vegas seemed excited about the exhibit hall's 800 company offerings. Heavy crowds surging toward the galley giveaways marked the exhibit openings on both Friday evening and again on Saturday morning. (For the scoop on which galleys were grabbed the fastest, visit ow.ly/zeZVc.) One vendor told LJ that the mood was looking up. "People no longer start the conversation with, 'Don't talk to me, I have no money,'" he said.