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Although NEMOA traditionally has attr-acted a host of smaller catalogers, it continues to draw larger ones, such as L.L. Bean. “There’s always an opportunity when like-minded individuals get together in the same room to share ideas,” says L.L. Bean’s Creative Director and Managing Editor Jim Hauptman. “You learn from the individual sessions, and they’re a stimuli for conversations. You take something from the individual session and then after, you go out in the hallway and ask someone, ‘What did you think of this point?’”