Alaska Library Association Conference 2005  

Travel:

Travel to Barrow is available via Alaska Airlines. You may wish to make your arrangements through the Alaska Airlines Group and Meetings Desk to obtain a discount. Just call 1-800-445-4435 and mention the discount code CMA0705. Please note that this discount does not work with PFD fares. PFD fares may be lower than this discounted fare. You may want to check which would be least expensive for you before purchasing your ticket. You may make your reservation up to three days on either side of the conference (March 7-16).

After you have made your reservation, please send Freya Anderson your ticket number (it starts with 027.). For every 40 reservations made this way, AkLA gets one free roundtrip on Alaska Airlines which we can use to bring Outside speakers to Alaska. Last year, fewer than 40 tickets were reported, so we have a head start on the freebie this year!

Barrow Information:

• Weather Underground (Barrow)
• King Eider

A note from local arrangements chair, David Ongley, on what to wear:

Barrow is a very casual place. Skirts and dresses are almost never worn
- at least not outside. Many people wear jeans daily. Boots of some
variety should be worn outside as well. There are no sidewalks and the
streets aren't paved. Many here change into loafers or sandals or
open-toed shoes once indoors. Hiking boots work well as long as you
don't spend long periods outside. Sorels, bunny boots or something with
felt liners are appropriate for excursions.

You can walk almost anywhere in Barrow in 20 minutes. Doing so, however,
should be done with fur or down coats, insulated snow pants and a stout
hat or hood. Of course the kids here run around in their sneakers and
hooded sweatshirts year-round and walk everywhere. You can do it too if
you like.

Let's hope the weather at conference is just like last Sunday: 10 below,
hardly any wind, the sun sitting on the south horizon (up since the
22nd) and a full moon off to the north (I could see both from my office
windows!). The sky was all kinds of blues, roses and oranges. Still
breathtaking after 10 years.