Re: IUG West AND East?

[Barb Anderson <bja9@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd hate to see it spit in two also, for a different reason.  Even though I 
wasn't able to attend this year, I know there is always a difficult 
decision of what to attend and what to try and get afterwards and I really 
don't want to compound it but looking at what programs are available "at 
the other conference" and not "mine" on top of it!
Barb

At 02:09 PM 4/30/2003, you wrote:
>I agree, this was a great conference.  I know it was sometimes frustrating 
>for people who couldn't attend all the sessions they wanted because there 
>were often too many good ones in the same time slot, but that's a good 
>kind of problem to have...a lot better than having time slots where 
>there's nothing you'd want to attend!
>
>I think the program committee did a good job of having some programs 
>offered multiple times, and of trying to arrange the program so that 
>programs on the same general topic didn't compete with each other.  I also 
>think it's wonderful having so much material available online, before and 
>after the program, including all the III Powerpoints. There's some really 
>great stuff there, useful if you missed a program because of a conflict or 
>didn't attend the IUG.  (And useful, too, of course, if you did 
>attend--  it's wonderful not to have to take notes, or remember things.)
>
>About pre-registering, the program committee did survey people about what 
>they planned to attend, and used that information to plan rooms, but I 
>don't think everyone filled out the form, and, of course, it's never going 
>to be totally accurate.  People are always going to change their mind 
>about what to attend for various reasons, and I know I wouldn't want to be 
>locked into a specific schedule ahead of time.
>
>About splitting the conference into two-- I can understand the benefits of 
>a smaller group, but I really wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to 
>have the whole user community represented at a single conference.  I 
>especially enjoy getting to meet the people from outside the United 
>States, and getting to talk to so many people I'd otherwise know only from 
>e-mail.
>
>As the Innovative customer base continues to grow and the annual IUG 
>meeting gets larger, I think what is happening is that the regional and 
>specialized groups are becoming more important.  These regional groups 
>also provide a way for each site to have more staff attend, especially in 
>the current economic climate with travel budgets an issue for everybody.
>
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Barbara J. Anderson
Library Systems Specialist
Kelvin Smith Library
Case Western Reserve University
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Cleveland, OH 44106-7151

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