Bo Simons, Internet Librarian for the Sonoma County Public Library, recently organized a road trip for Web4Lib readers in association with ALA. Among the activities he scheduled for us was a visit to O'Reilly & Associates in Sebastopol, the Wine Library at Healdsburg, and a winery (he also graciously provided wonderful refreshments, but that's another story). In any event, those of us who attended had an informative and interesting time.

Dale Dougherty of Songline Studios and O'Reilly spent an hour talking to us about O'Reilly as well as more general issues. Apparently he was impressed enough with the visit that he wrote a piece in Web Review called "Librarians Get It: How Librarians are Shaping the Web".

I apologize for pointing this out because I am named in the article, but I wanted to thank Bo Simons on the list for putting this field trip together. It was good to meet those who were able to attend and it was a well-organized afternoon.

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Roy Tennant