Coming to you live from MCC 274!
June 24th, 2006 by Pat EnsorWell, we’ve got a bloggers’ room at Annual Conference! It has separate tables and chairs that I’m sure we’ll end up pushing together when more than one person shows up. And it has power cords. All is right with the world.
I’ve only done one “conference” thing so far, but I want to share my excitement about it. Right before every Annual Conference, there is a Spectrum Scholars’ Leadership Institute. I was fortunate enough to be involved in planning it a couple of years ago, so I was glad to participate in their Professional Options Fair last evening. I got to represent LITA as well as discuss academic librarianship, with the eager, new Spectrum Scholarship recipients.
Talking with them excited me anew about the thrilling world of librarianship we are moving into. Several of the scholars are interested in LITA and hope to be able to make it to the LITA Open House Saturday (4pm-5:30pm, MCC 260). I hope enthusiastic LITA evangelizers will join me to talk with them and convey how LITA as changed our professional lives.
June 24th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Blogadelic! Dyn-o-megabyte! Sounds as if IT at NO is OK.
A big ol’ bloggers’ room at every conference would be cool…
June 24th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Completely agreed…it’s been amazing to have the room to retire to and get some network time in. We definitely need to keep this as a standard feature!
June 24th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Ditto. One trick is making it seem open for use by more than LITA folken - a few people (non-LITAns, *gasp*) I’ve told about the room said they weren’t sure it was open to everyone since it is named “LITA Blog Room.” I hope that’s a perception exception rather than the rule, fwiw.