The presentations were, I thought, extremely interesting. Presenters talked about on the job experiences, the LOC and Smithsonian Flickr projects, digitization, and the preservation of culture in archives. There was a great variety of topics and all were incredibly relevant to our profession. The conference also included a behind-the-scenes tour of the Lilly Library and a presentation/workshop by Professor Philip Bantin. This was SAA's first conference with this group of officers and members and I think it was a great success. Hope SAA continues to host this conference!
Side note: I also presented at this conference. My topic was DSpace. I didn't do as well as I hoped. My presentation ran long and you could certainly tell from the wobbles in my voice that I was nervous. As glad as I'm that it is over, I'm glad I did it. Perhaps I'll get better with more practice.
Congrats to my fellow presenters who all did a great job!!
Photo courtesy of Bethany Fiechter
Thank you for linking me :) I thought you did an awesome job on your presentation! We just did not have enough time for all of us to speak about our topics!
ReplyDeleteI hope we do this again as well. It was a really great learning experience for everyone and I loved having others come to our campus to see what we do :)
You all did a fabulous job! I agree with Bethany, there just wasn't enough time for all 3 speakers. I hope the other attendees enjoyed the conference as much as I did.
ReplyDeleteP.S.: The Archives has a DSpace instance as well! The Archives of Institutional Memory (AIM): http://institutionalmemory.iu.edu/aim/
I agree that the conference was a great success. Congratulations to all who organized it and gave papers. Phil
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