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The Local Arrangement Committee's "Conference Countdown" continues this week with some Houston trivia.

Where in Houston is? Houston may no longer use trolley cars, but you can still find one here (minus the tracks). We’ll post the answer next week!

Tip: Look at the TLA program, and plan your personal schedule on the TLA App. To download it, point your mobile web browser to http://m.core-apps.com/tla2012 or search for “TLA 2012” on your device’s app store. Don’t forget to add parties to your schedule!

Enjoy getting ideas by just talking to other librarians? Feel like you need more time to keep up with all the trends in technology today? Want to talk technology with other librarians? Then, participate in TLA’s Technology and Libraries Unconference!

We just received an announcement from the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston that effective March 1, parking rates will increase. Here is the text of their press release:

"Effective March 1, 2012, daily event parking rates will increase at the George R. Brown Convention Center surface parking lots, Convention District parking in the underground garage at Discovery Green and the parking garage at the Hilton Americas-Houston.

Recently we asked the chairs of TLA units (divisions, round tables, interest groups, and committees) if they had sessions that they were sponsoring or that other units were sponsoring that they would like to shine a little spotlight on before conference to let people know about them.  These could be sessions that they felt needed a little extra publicity, they were personally excited about, or felt that they were highly topical to their membership or the TLA membership as a whole.  

Here are tip sheets for each of the major platforms for using the TXLA 2012 Mobile app on your smartphone.

Lightning Talks: Innovative Technology Applications for Reference & Instruction

The Houston Local Arrangements Committee is excited to have TLA librarians visit our home town. We are excited about this year’s conference, and we hope you are too. Over the coming weeks, we will be posting information about the city and the conference that will help you get the most out of this year's conference.

Would you like to volunteer at TLA in Houston this year? Please fill out the volunteer application.

Take a chance on art at the TLA 2012 Disaster Relief Fund raffle!  This year's whimsical masterpiece was donated byauthor/illustrator Julian Hector. Raised outside of Austin by two biologists, Hector studied illustration at Parsons The New School for Design in New York.

We wanted to let people know about a few session schedule changes that have already occurred since we published the printed schedule for conference.

For the second year, we have a mobile app available for the annual conference.  Last year was the first year that we used the current platform and we heard lots of positive feedback on the app.  We hope that an earlier launch will help get the word out about the app and let people try it out before the conference and learn about some of the features.