Later start to the last day of the conference, which was just as well as the wonderful conference dinner at the Ooraminna Homestead was the night before. We had an awesome night of a BBQ dinner, star gazing, dancing, partying and more, at a great location about 40kms out of Alice.

The first plenary for the day was with one of my favourite speakers – Stephen Abram and as usual, he challenged and inspired everyone in attendance – which was a good crowd indeed. This was followed by Alan Smith from NSLA giving us a quick overview of the Reimagining Library services project – if you havent looked at what our state and national libraries have committed to achieving in the next 5 years, you should. If they pull it off and I hope they do, it will change all of our libraries and make it so much easier for our users.

The morning concurrent sessions were on Space, Collections and Research. In Space we followed the journey of a public library being created from a joint use library, the vision created for the Christchurch Public Library Service and the redevelopment of SLQs reference services.

After lunch the concurrent sessions were on the topics of Communities, International and Academic and we concluded early with a plenary on NT Libraries award winning indigenous library program (they got $1 million from the Gates Foundation) and an exploration of ALA and her year as president from Loriene Roy.

We finished with closing drinks and some close encounters with some of our native reptiles.

Its been an awesome week in a great location. About 600 delegates enjoyed the superb location and the great facilities of the Alice Springs Convention Centre. My joint paper was very well received and we had an awesome time networking. There will be very librarian full planes heaing back to all major capitals today as most head home. Remember, all the papers will be available from http://www.alia2008.com/ and Ill be checking them out, or check out my individual blog posts at http://connectinglibrarian.com.