There’s been a lot of talk lately about reforming ALA (and I commented too), but having just finished my first year on two NMRT committees I thought I would reflect on that experience.
After having been a member of several ALIA committees over the past few years, I decided to become more involved in ALA to […]
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The art of conference programming
Published by May 31st, 2007 in Associations and Conferences. 4 CommentsDavid Lee King asks if ALA could take a more SXSWi approach to conference programming, and base content on what people want to see.
This is a great idea, and I wonder how it might play out for ALA or other library conferences.
Here’s how it worked out for us with NLS2006, and this is pretty standard […]
The future of associations
Published by March 26th, 2007 in General, Associations and Conferences. 2 CommentsWhen I first joined professional associations (ALIA at first, later ALA and others) ,before I volunteered for things, what I valued most were the publications. At the time I was working in a special library and had acesss to little professional literature.
Over time, as Open Access became more widespread, and volunteering became a more valuable member […]
NLS2006 Audio now available
Published by December 15th, 2006 in Associations, Conferences, Australia and nls2006. 1 CommentEdit: All 19 recorded sessions from NLS2006 are now available as a podcast!
Add the NLS2006 podcast with enclosures to your RSS reader, iTunes or podcast software to get started.
This podcast is a first for NLS and a first for ALIA conferences. Thanks to the venue who made it possible, and the speakers for being willing […]
If you went to NLS2006, and you’re inspired, and you love being a librarian, what now? Strike while the iron’s hot, and get involved right now!
What I love about NLS, as I said to a few people over the weekend, is that I’ve been able to plot career milestones and decisions against it. At NLS1, […]
NLS2006 programme summary
Published by December 5th, 2006 in Associations, Conferences, Australia and nls2006. 1 CommentOne of the big goals we had with NLS2006 was to take all the great things about NLS2, like peer presentations, and see how far we could run with them. We ended up with 25 peer sessions, most by newgrads and many first-time presenters, three keynotes and three plenary sessions (the debate, leadership panel, and […]
NLS2006 wrapup
Published by December 4th, 2006 in Associations, Conferences, Australia, nls2006 and blogs. 10 CommentsI’m sure I will have many things to write about NLS2006 over the coming days but to start: thank you to everyone who was involved - to the co-convenors Alyson and Adrianne, fellow committee members, Liz Baker for assisting with programme, venue staff, ALIA national office, all the sponsors, Kate Sinclair, all the speakers, and […]
Life after NLS2006
Published by November 25th, 2006 in Associations, Conferences, Australia and nls2006. 3 CommentsIt seems a little perverse to be thinking about what I’ll be doing after NLS2006 when the conference doesn’t happen until next week, but it’s something that a few of us on the committee have been discussing.
The first step will be to write about our experience, in the hope that the work we’ve done in […]
Last night I attended my second Regional meeting of the ALIA National Advisory Congress (NAC). An improvement on last year’s, there were many more attendees. While I did think it didn’t quite stick to the desired outcomes (we didn’t pick a success story to send to Perth), I found that some of the governance discussions were […]
Usually, I find it easy to summarise what I thought of a conference and what I took away from it. This time, it’s not so easy.
All weekend, I heard people tell their story of how the storms affected them - at the conference, at Radical Reference events, in the street, and in restaurants that […]
