November Confesses to All Kinds of Terrible Things

My second least favorite month is nearly upon us. (February's the hands-down worst, no contest!) If you're equally disenchanted by the end of Daylight Savings and November's general gloom, distract yourself with this, that, or the other:

• Nov. 4: Get schooled on RDA by everyone's favorite cataloging instructor and winner of Library Journal's 2008 Teaching Award, Rick Block, at the New York Technical Services Librarians fall program.
• Nov. 6-7: Wondering how to get patrons of all ages interested in poetry? Attend the Poetry in the Branches National Institute at New York's beautiful, spacious, and new-as-can-be Poets House.
• Nov. 19: SLA's New York Chapter upgrades your brain at the New York Information and Intelligence Forum.
• Nov. 21: Eat brunch with America's most famous library-lady, Nancy Pearl. Okay, Laura Bush might be more (in)famous. Proceeds benefit her daughter's upcoming dramatic confessional, Terrible Things. Mmm...marshmallows...