Computers in Libraries 2008
I always look forward to Computers in Libraries in the spring. This year CIL is at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, VA. The conference runs from April 7 - 9, 2008. Pre-registered attendees (including conference delegates, speakers, exhibits-only visitors, and exhibitors) hit almost 2,700 as of 4/3/2007. This year, Information Today, Inc. added a first track of conference programming. The exhibits open on Monday morning instead of Monday evening giving more access to the exhibit hall. More wireless service has been provided and more outlets will be found in the session rooms! (As a blogger, I really appreciate this.) An attendee lunch is scheduled in the exhibit hall on the last day of the conference, Wednesday, April 9th.
Tracks include:
- Information Discovery and Search
- Web Design
- Communities and Collaboration
- Integrating Hi Tech with Hi Touch
- Industries Using Hot Tech
- Next-Gen Catalogs
- Content Management
- Social Software
- Services: Virtually Everywhere
- Innovation and Change
- Search Engines
- Open Source
- Gaming and Virtual Worlds
- Learning
- Planning and Managing
Not only that, there were a number of programs for government libraries sponsored by FLICC and FEDLINK including:
- Collaborating with Customers with Mylene Ouimette and Jo Ann Remshard, NIST
- Learning from Politics with Justine Lam, Ron Paul 2008
- Learning from Non-Profits with Sarosh Syed, Save Darfur
- Creative Commons (CC): Copyright Alternative? with Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
- One Click Ahead: Best of Resource Shelf with Gary Price, ResourceShelf.com
- Open Source Solutions to Offer Superior Service with Amy De Groff, Howard County Public Library; Ching-hsien Wang and George Bowman, Smithsonian Institution; Eric Atkinson, Orange County Library System, and Kimberly Babcock Mashek, Wartburg College.
