Lunch with MLIS Study Group

While in my master's program at the Univeristy of Washington's iSchool, I got to work with 3 exceptional individuals throughout most of my program. We were put together in LIS 500 as an "other" group - we didn't like the prescribed topics - and had fun working together. As a result, we did projects together in most of the core classes. Today we met at Dad Watson's in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood for lunch and to catch-up. Among other things we talked about our work, families, politics, traffic, and libraries. One cool thing was that Erin brought her new "Kindle" from Amazon. Although I've seen the ads on the Amazon site, I hadn't thought much about the device. It's pretty cool and I see it as something that will have implications in the library world. It was compact, readable, and can hold up to 200 books. You could make notes and even highlight. I think it may just attract the new generation of readers.