Jane has posted about Why I May Not Be Giving My Preconference at TLA and I can’t agree with her more. I once pulled out of LITA National as I was not going to pay to present and others have blogged about this issue before. Jane, you have my full support.
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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One Reply to “Paying to speak”
This is a common (albeit unfortunate) situation. As professionals, many of us spend countless hours creating presentations that may be of much use to our colleagues. Then we are expected to pay?
This is a common (albeit unfortunate) situation. As professionals, many of us spend countless hours creating presentations that may be of much use to our colleagues. Then we are expected to pay?