Comments on: What’s your favorite nonlibrary conference?

By: Connie Crosby

Connie Crosby — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:57:03 +0000

Great question! Mine is Podcasters Across Borders (PAB)–this will be my fourth year attending. Another law librarian, Jim Milles, got me started in this conference. It is a close community, roughly 100 people attend, and we have a fantastic weekend. If anyone is interested in learning about social media and content creation, this is a great group (it is not just about podcasting)–I highly recommend it! http://www.podcastersacrossborders.com/

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:49:49 +0000

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative annual conference was pretty darn amazing, for anyone interested in educational technology. I found it to be far more informative than any library conference I’ve attended, even the tech-oriented ones.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:17:27 +0000

I really like the Society of Scholarly Publishing conference (http://www.sspnet.org/). There are some librarians, though we are certainly not the majority. I thought the sessions were really valuable and interesting.

By: Mick Jacobsen

Mick Jacobsen — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:54:59 +0000

I really enjoyed an web accessibility conference I went to a year ago at University of Illinois. Learned tons, fun talking to super techies, good times.

By: Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:17:12 +0000

Back in Library School I got a change to attend the Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference. (http://www.cfp.org/) This was in 1994 during the height of the Clipper Chip & PGP controversies. I got to meet Bruce Sterling, Steven Levey, Bruce Sterling, Emanuel Goldstein (2600 Magazine) and some NSA spooks. I’d love to go again.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:15:58 +0000

I dont attend very many anymore, but back before I was yet another ABD librarian, I enjoyed the MLA (modern language, not medlib) conference. I’ve been considering going back, since many of the socsci faculty for our uni are members and that’s their huge conference. As a writer, I loved AWP (I also look at the writers as perhaps-soon-to-be-on-my-shelves, which is a fun perspective to have).