Balancing Act at Midwinter - Work Meetings vs. Sessions
January 18th, 2005 by ChrisOverall, I love the energy you get from these conferences! It is great to be surrounded by people who share your passion, are knowledgeable, and are willing to share that knowledge! While my batteries were definitely low by Monday (and are still low after a six hour flight back to Seattle), overall I am recharged by what I learned, who I met, and all of the excitement people feel about libraries and our future. Reading all the entries already posted just reinforces all of the above and hopefully meets the goal of sharing that with all the people who could not make it to Boston.
This conference was different for me from the perspective of it being the first time that I spent the majority of my time in meetings with others rather than in sessions. So while those meetings were very interesting and useful, I sometimes missed the opportunity to attend some of the great sessions that I had planned on attending. Even with this change in plans, I still had great conversations with random people walking from meeting to meeting or running into people I had met previously or worked with at some point. Unfortunately, it meant I was a slacker when it came to posting content for the blog.
A short summary of the two sessions I attended will follow shortly -
1) the “Windows XP Public Workstation - Personal Computing Interest Group” on Sunday (sponsored by LITA); and
2) the “Top Technology Trends Committee Business Meeting”, also part of LITA.
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