The 11th public library association (pla) con-ference in Boston in late March was one of the best library conferences in years. Attendance skyrocketed to 11,000, and the number of librarians alone (8,459) nearly equaled the entire showing at the last PLA in Seattle. It's not just the numbers that made this PLA such a smash. In the spirit of the meeting, always a best practices conference, here are a few PLA "bests" and "worsts," though it is difficult to come up with the latter.
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