[WEB4LIB] Computers in Libraries

[J.M. Latham]

A the risk of being one of the DUH! presentations, I have to say that I
had a similar conversation with a colleague about the content of these
conferences ... they are not, it appears, for the technically savvy.  That
was not always true about CIL -- it used to be the conference the techie
types went to to find other techie types ... now people follow the techie
types around to find out what they should be keeping up with.  Hence the
DUH factor.

I would like a techie only conference, or even just a meeting, some place
where those of us who have been doing this for years and years and years
can go and be challenged instead of bored ...

Joyce

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Drew, Bill wrote:

> I also just returned from Computers in Libraries where I moderated and
> presented in the Wireless Track.  It was my first real national conference
> (except for ASIS in 1984 in Philadelphia).   The catch words at this year's
> conference include  Wireless, XML, digital resources, and knowledge
> management.  I do believe it was one of the best conferences I have ever
> attended.   While I was in the wireless sessions most of Thursday,  I did
> get a chance to attend other sessions on Wednesday and Friday.  I learned a
> great deal while a couple of sessions were guilty of what I call the DUH!
> effect.  I sat there going DUH! isn't that obvious?  It continues to amaze
> me that at every conference I go to or almost every library oriented journal
> I open there is always at least one session or article that clearly states
> the obvious.  I won't name names in order to protect those that don't get
> it.  My own presentation can be found at:
> 
> http://people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/cil2001/
> 
> The best part of CIL was networking face to face with other librarians.  I
> had a very pleasant meal with several people that are members of this list
> and met many others in the real world that I had known in the virtual
> libraryland for many years.
> ___________________ 
> Bill Drew -  SUNY Morrisville Library
> E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
> "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
> -- Robert Louis Stevenson.
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