[Web4lib] Attending/Presenting at conferences in difficult times / Dissolution of Reference

[John Fereira]

Ranti Junus wrote:
> Oh, also, those at MPOW who are going to a conference are encouraged
> to write a report and share it with the whole library staff. This
> could include the programs they attended (and write a brief synopsis
> about the programs and why they are useful for our library), the
> tidbits, tips, and tricks they received from informal interactions,
> and news they heard from the vendors.
I'm frequently required to do something like this by our library 
director.  I did a "Takeaways from Internet Librarian 2009" presentation 
to the rest of our library staff.  After 2.5 days of presentations and 
informal interactions I came back and spent about a week researching 
some of the things that I heard about to augment what I got during the 
conference.  Then I did an hour and a half presentation of all that 
material focusing on the things that I though were most appropriate for 
our library.  Even though I was the only person to attend the 
conference, hopefully a lot of others benefited from my experience. 

-- 
John Fereira
Cornell University
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