Conference Season

Being that conference season is fast upon us here we were hoping some of our readers out there (and I know we have some....gotta love those sitemeters) would be willing to post comments on their conference experiences and advice. I think it can be challenging to try and decide what conference would benefit you the most and what you should absolutely do when you get to said conference.

So in April I will be heading out to Jasper for the Alberta Library Conference. I think its important to attend provicial conferences for the excellent local networking experiences. It builds strong relationships between institutions and the people you meet there can be excellent source of information and advice throughout your career. I am also going to the CLA conference in Vancouver in May. I think this conference is a great venue to explore issues profession wide. You are able to meet people from across the country and you have your pick of sessions on such a variety of topics. I would absolutely recommend everyone attend the First Timers Breakfast as it is the ideal way to start out your conference experience.

So what about the rest of you?

Did we miss this? HR Summit to be held in June

Wow I am a little behind here! But I happen to be reading through some press releases and I think this one seem to have slipped under my radar in December. Of course results from meetings like this are always relevant to our group as many of you will be these "future leaders". I think it should be an interesting follow up from the 8R's report in 2005. Direct from the CLA website:

Canadian library community planning Summit on human resources

"Canada’s leading library stakeholders are addressing one of the key issues in the field by planning a major national summit on human resources. The 2008 Library Human Resources Summit will bring together an invited group of participants, who represent key associations, employers, government officials, and other stakeholders in the Canadian library community. The Summit will develop a national strategy and action plans to ensure that Canadian libraries will have the great leadership we will need in our librarians and information professionals, in order to meet Canada’s knowledge and information management needs in the first three decades of the 21st century."

Click here to read then entire press release.