ALA’s Annual Convention (June 22-28, 2006) was the first major convention to take place in New Orleans post-Katrina. 

AALL is headed to St. Louis later this month for its Annual Convention but the 2007 Meeting will be in New Orleans.   

ALA has published some information on their website (http://www.ala.org/) regarding the meeting’s impact on the local economy and NOLA.com (with the Times-Picayune) has a great deal of additional information on the state of the city’s levees as the 2006 hurricane season builds.