Away at a conference this week

Gillian and I have spent the last few days in Sydney at the SirsiDynix Asia Pacific User Conference 2009 in Sydney. (SirsiDynix provide the library management system which the Blue Mountains Library uses to issue and return books, catalogue them, etc.)

We have had an interesting and exhausting mix of business and pleasure.

We went to the theatre and saw an all-girl production of The Taming of the Shrew by the Bell Shakespeare Company (Gillian is still a bit traumatised!) and we tested iced coffee and hot chocolate at the Guylian cafe on Circular Quay (both highly recommended).

We had been to some of the libraries on the Library Tours so decided to catch everyone else up at the Customs House Library which is a really interesting building.

We also attended the conference dinner at the Overseas Passenger Terminal which has beautiful views of the Opera House.

As with any conference or other event there are some boring bits

and you have to take the good with the bad, but there were some compensations

and we have come away with some gems of information which make it all worth while.