DUH factor at Computers in Libraries

[Debra Shapiro]

Ummm, excuse me, while Walt is certainly right about the economics 
(the 40% cut that ALA gets DOES make any divisonal conference hard to 
put on as a money maker) LITA has reincarnated its national 
conference as the LITA Forum, the 4th one will be held in Milwaukee, 
October 11-14
http://www.lita.org/forum01/index.htm

The third one was in Portland, Oct. 2000, and the program archive is 
still available, so you can check out the "techie only" factor 
(although many thought that the Y2K Forum's theme "High Tech, High 
Touch" got us a few too many non-tech proposals)
http://www.lita.org/forumY2K/programs.htm

At LITA Forums, you do get to "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"

I also heard good things about the Canadian Access conference at CIL, 
so maybe it was worth it...(and probably gave one of those (DUH 
presentations..)

Regards,
Debra
not quite so old LITA hand

>
>  >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 Latham
>
>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-
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