Comments on: Associations with associations http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=787 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Golrick http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=787&cpage=1#comment-6741 Michael Golrick Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:58:14 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=787#comment-6741 I am a PLA Board member. PLA had a conference in 2008 in Minneapolis. (It rocked!) The next conference is not until 2010 in Portland Oregon. For PLA (and both ACRL and AASL) membership tends to increase in a year with a conference and drop in the year without it. For finances, income (and net revenue) is way up in conference years, and down the next. We plan and budget for that. I am slightly surprised at the AASL drop since they had a conference this year, but it is also a sign of the stress in that part of librarianship. Great post. Hope you feel better! I am a PLA Board member. PLA had a conference in 2008 in Minneapolis. (It rocked!) The next conference is not until 2010 in Portland Oregon. For PLA (and both ACRL and AASL) membership tends to increase in a year with a conference and drop in the year without it. For finances, income (and net revenue) is way up in conference years, and down the next. We plan and budget for that. I am slightly surprised at the AASL drop since they had a conference this year, but it is also a sign of the stress in that part of librarianship.

Great post. Hope you feel better!

]]> By: Jason Puckett http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=787&cpage=1#comment-6729 Jason Puckett Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:39:46 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=787#comment-6729 I was talking about the membership drop vs. the conference attendance, and a friend of mine quite rightly pointed out to me that most people pay for memberships out of their own pockets, but employers often pay for conference travel. Makes perfect sense to me. I was talking about the membership drop vs. the conference attendance, and a friend of mine quite rightly pointed out to me that most people pay for memberships out of their own pockets, but employers often pay for conference travel. Makes perfect sense to me.

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