Last week the Liminal Librarian posted her Ten Do’s and Don’ts for Conference, Workshop, and Program Organizers. As someone who has been doing presentations and workshops for the past ten years I can say that some hosts are better than others. (I am also not picking on anyone in particular!) To share one recent story, I was at a conference and there was a technology issue in which the security folks didn’t want to allow me to hook up my laptop to their Internet connection. The on-site coordinator (someone who wasn’t actually part of the conference but worked for the institution where the conference was being held) finally asked me “What do you need?” and was able to get me exactly what I needed to make my presentation not only easier for me, but better for the attendees. Now that’s service!
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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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