bepress Advisory Board meeting & ALA Midwinter conference 2018
As a member of the bepress Advisory Committee since its formation in late 2017, I had been invited to the inaugural meeting to be held on Monday 12 February 2018 at the Denver Convention Centre in Denver Colorado. This fortuitously coincided with the American Library Association Midwinter conference. It would be my second only visit to the United States, having travelled to Portland and San Francisco on the west coast for a bepress event and the ACRL conference back in March 2015. Sydney airport terminal, 10 February 2018. I flew out of Sydney on Saturday 10 February 2018 (9 February US time) on United Airlines to Denver, with a brief stopover at Houston, Texas. I would be in Denver from the Saturday afternoon through to the following Wednesday evening, when I would fly out on a United Airlines 737, returning to Sydney via Los Angeles and arriving home on the afternoon of Friday 16 February. The trip was sponsored by bepress (Elsevier) though the University of Wollongong