Category: Conferences
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They order these things better: a review of #hlg2012
@Librarianpocket posted on twitter asking people to give their take home messages from the 2012 Health Libraries Group conference in Glasgow. I didn’t respond at the time, thinking the task too hard. I suppose, paraphrasing Sterne, I might say, ‘they order these matters better in Scotland’, for I and other delegates from the wrong side…
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32nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History: The Book Trade and the Classical World
I am disgustingly late in writing up my notes from the 32nd Annual Conference on Book Trade History: The Book Trade and the Classical World, which took place nearly a month ago. I plead pressure of work, and the difficulty of understanding my notes after such a time-lapse. This page may demonstrate some of the…
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CoFHE and UC&R Joint Conference
I'm off to Exeter for the CoFHE and UC&R Joint Conference next week. I've created, as a service to conference-going humanity, an iCal calendar of the programme. To subscribe, go to webcal://ical.me.com/tomroper/UCRSCoFHE.ics; to view online, go to http://ical.me.com/tomroper/UCRSCoFHE The twitter hashtag #exeter10 is already seeing a lot of traffic. But are we the only event…
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Conference going
Henry Green’s remarkable trilogy of novels, Living, Loving and Party Going, could have been followed by a fourth on conferences. This thought was prompted by a post on the excellent American team blog, In the Library with the Lead Pipe, on the matter of library conferences. They discuss the various conferences American librarians attend; I…
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UKSG
‘So what was the most interesting issue that came up at the [UKSG] conference?’ asked an e-mail that arrived this afternoon, as I hurtled south on the train to King’s Cross. I was stuck for a reply. It’s hard to process three days of rich ideas about more or less everything that librarians and publishers…
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En route to UKSG
I haven’t been to a conference for a very long time, but UKSG very kindly asked me to lead a work-out session at their conference in Edinburgh which starts tomorrow. How could I refuse? Once one of the globe-trotting conference going jet-set of the library world, I haven;t been to one for too long. And…
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JDCC09: sessions I tweeted
I’m fighting my way through the backlog of notes to write a final post on the JISC Digital Content Conference, wrapping up those sessions I haven’t covered yet. The unreliable wifi at the conference means that while I managed live tweeting for some sessions, others exist as notes on the PowerBook. Given the very full…
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JDCC09: the urge and surge of international collaboration
At a session led by Sarah Porter on international collaborations, three projects presented. Michael Popham of Oxford spoke about the Shakespeare Quartos project, which has digitised all 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays in a collaboration between Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare library in the USA, giving scholars new ways to study variant editions…
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JDCC09: Nick Poole on Digital Britain or Digital Landfill: free puppies and ten problems
I’m fighting my way through the backlog of notes to write some more posts on the JISC Digital Content Conference. The unreliable wifi at the conference means that while I managed live tweeting for some sessions, others exist as notes on the PowerBook. I may summarise the tweeted sessions too, in time. The third plenary…
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The stability of conference archives
I had an email the other day asking my permission for a presentation I gave at a conference in 2000 to be archived in an institutional repository at Washington State University; my small contribution was a paen to Vetgate, the animal health gateway built by the OMNI/BIOME project, and still going strong under Intute. WSU…