I’m finally getting around to sharing my final thoughts and notes on COMO 2011.
The good:
- all of the sessions I attended or heard part of – great> excellent academic papers, Green Library presentation, PBCore presentation, RDA, WREK (when do I get to be on the radio?)
- seeing my fellow librarians and compadres from around the state
- the vendors had candy and cute fuzzy toy sheep
- the paper presentation went really well (thanks Ginny)
- the presentation on automating social media (sigh, not so well thanks to everything listed below)
The bad — egads, the scheduling (cataloging/metadata sessions scheduled against each other), the spotty wifi (!!!!!) and the lack of technical support (no projectors provided, only small portable screens, etc.)
Notes on the academic papers:
- Movable, comfortable,configurable furniture is important (Emory paper on info commons)
- Gov Docs Librarians wear many hats, often it is a “secondary” duty (Gov Doc Librarian salary)
- Automation reduces menial work which then means remaining work is more complex = more training and higher levels of abilities and competencies (Ginny Feher & me on automation in libraries: a DBM case study; submitted to GLQ for publication)
- I didn’t take notes on the other papers but that doesn’t mean they weren’t good. 😉
Notes on Lost in the Stacks presentation
Notes on PbCore Metadata
Notes on RDA panel