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 the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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