Feedback Discussion: Conference Program
Bonnie Tijerina March 26th, 2008
On the last day of the ER&L08 Conference, ER&L planners Elizabeth Winter and Kelly Smith led a Feedback Discussion over lunch. The next several posts are a break down of comments captured by me, Ranti Junus and Jacquie Samples. If your comments weren’t captured or you didn’t make the Feedback Discussion, feel free to comment on these posts.
Thoughts on Conference Sessions
- The conference is really useful; it’s working; it’s great; vet the abstracts to reduce overlap.
- Too many similar topics and overlap of topics. Not really clear how one presentation connected with other similar ones and there are plenty of overlap.
- Consider “lightning rounds” where anyone has 5 minutes to share an idea or a project they are working on.
- A lot of sessions seems to take a wide variety of user expertise; need more specific topic.
- Have more publishers to dialog with librarians
Thoughts on Conference Logistics
- The 45 minutes is good because it forced the presenters on target.
- Mix up the program; can we bring the 4-hours preconference as part of the conference (like workshop on practical stuff).
- Utilize the track system to combine theory and the practical stuff. Possibly create a 3-hour “track” with presentations that touch on different aspects of a topic.
- 45 minutes is too short for 4 speakers.
- Speakers need to stop taking after 30 minutes and allow more time for questions and discussion
- Repeat some sessions to allow people to participate as well.
- Starring some sessions is a good idea
Ideas
- Have people post to the Thought Cloud before our Call for Proposal for ER&L09 so topics are based on what we want to know.
- Post proposals and let the community vote like Code4Lib does.
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