All of the trustee workshops are being held on the top floor of the Marriott in the presidential suite, ten floors above the rest of the conference. This morning I thought about this on the drive in. Why are the trustees being separated from the rest of the conference? Why are we being placed “on high”?
A conference committee member told me that three years ago, there wasn’t any trustee workshops at all and that two years ago he had rented a suite to do just that. Last year was the first time that there were official trustee events and that the plan is to slowly integrate the trustee events into the rest of the conference over the next few years.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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