[WEB4LIB] Re: Computers in Libraries

[Roy Tennant]

I was about to post about the Access conference in Canada when I saw 
that Walt beat me to it. It is presently the conference I go to when 
I want to hear talks at a technical level that makes sense for me. 
And since you're hob-nobbing with a bunch of systems librarians as 
well as luminaries like Clifford Lynch and Tim Bray, you never know 
what kind of wild scheme you'll hatch over your favorite beverage.
Roy

At 12:57 PM -0800 3/19/01, Walt_Crawford at notes.rlg.org wrote:
>  >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 ...
>
>Let it not be forgot, that once there was such a congenial spot (IMNSHO):
>the LITA National Conferences.
>
>And we (they) couldn't make them cost-effective. (Partly the economics of
>nonprofits, ALA, and accrual accounting, where "accrual" definitely rhymes
>with "cruel".)
>
>In my own limited experience (I don't get a lot of funding, so I mostly go
>where I'm invited and paid for), the closest I've seen to the
>"techie-dominated conference" is Access 'xx, (e.g., Access '99), a Canadian
>conference.
>
>-walt crawford, very old LITA hand-