Sunday, October 14, 2007
What an excellent October getaway! Info nerds take over a big chunk of a community center without an agenda: Just a whole lot of energy and their laptops. In fact my favorite visual from the Info Camp conference were a dozen laptops waiting for the Plenary speaker gleaming on 20 row portable seating that reminded me of the Rose Garden's Theater in the Clouds seating arrangement.The folks who pulled this together had a great vibe. It felt a little like the Hardy gang putting up a show in the barn. Intros on Monday were an interesting mix. It felt like a full spectrum of Information and web related experts, usability, libarians and info specialists from public and private sectors. To the best of my knowledge, all of the twenty or so slots for sessions were taken up by folks who volunteered with good ideas. Some were demonstrations, some were discussions of technology and information-related questions.
Youngstown Center is a converted school building that the McMenniman's would have been pleased to have had in their properties. The Conference room sessions from 4-6 had wonderful sundown light filtered through pull-downs and augmented by light from one of the bigger LCD monitors I have stared at for any length of time. But most importantly, was the literate, well-shared discussions on Information Overload and social tools for libraries.
Sam Wallin of Ft Vancouver Library who gave the Social Tools session is correct. There was an excellent energy to yesterday's conference. I felt it was in the the highest tradition of Internet-like sharing.
There are lots of folks I wish had been able to make the trip to Info Camp , Among them: Sam Wallin's former classmate, Zachery Grant, Kitty Mackey and Joan Carey of Clark's library staff as well as our friends from WSUV's DTC program. I plan to include multiple dispatches and links as I re-enter a post camp world.
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