Fwd: [Web4lib] Conferences for web librarians

[marcus]

Jonathan,

Canada plays host to the Access conference every year.

http://www.access2006.uottawa.ca/

This year's is in the nation's capital, Ottawa, Ontario and is coming
up soon, October 11 to 14.

A quote:

"The Access Conference is the pre-eminent Canadian library technology
conference and typically attracts librarians and information
technology professionals from all over Canada, and in recent years the
United States and even Europe."
– Randy Reichardt, STLQ

and a blurb:

The conference is an eclectic group of technically savvy people who
get together every year to share fresh challenges, projects and
solutions related to advances in information and library communities.

It is a single stream conference with limited attendance, which
provides ample opportunity to meet and exchange ideas.

Common touchstones at the conference include:

    * customized web applications and search interfaces
    * open source software
    * national and provincial consortiae initiatives
    * information policy
    * digital media
    * library catalogue innovations
    * end user searching behaviours
    * metadata

I always think of Access as one conference I can go to and be
guaranteed to say, "Wow, I didn't know anyone was doing that!"


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Marcus Roesner, BA, MLIS
advoCHAT Project Manager
LibraryCo Inc.
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On 25/09/06, Jonathan Bloy <JBloy at edgewood.edu> wrote:
> Last spring I attended the Computers in Libraries conference for the
> first time (which I thought was very worthwhile).
>
> I am aware of Internet Librarian, and the Libraries and Info Technology
> Assn. annual conference.  Are there any other big conferences (in North
> America) for us web librarian types?
>
> If you could go to one conference every year, which would it be?
>
> --
> Jonathan Bloy
> Web Services Librarian
> Edgewood College
> Madison, Wisconsin
> http://library.edgewood.edu
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