by I usually participate in Libday postings and was looking forward to sharing things from my new job but this year’s round ended up during OLA Super Conference, so it’s a two for one posting.
- Day 1 was spent travelling to the conference. Nothing exciting there.
- Day 2 was spent doing final touches for the conference. I had a packed schedule and a number of responsibilities to prepare for.
- Day 3 was a combination of fun and responsibility. As always, the best part of the conference is networking and I started by networking over high tea. This should be the start to all conferences. The networking continued throughout the night. The evening was filled with my last dinner as part of the OLA board. This was followed by duties as OLITA President 2011 to partake in the Art of Networking event (always a fun time). Then the first plenary and more networking at the party. Did I mention I like networking?
- Day 4 was the first full day of the conference. My major responsibility was my presentation on QR codes (slides are already up). Then, learning in sessions and more networking.
- Day 5 I convened a session and ran the OLITA AGM – and guess what, more networking. I am now officially past-president/treasurer of OLITA. We had an awesome year at OLITA and did some amazing things, including the technology lending library, Planet OLITA, appetizers (small intros into tech on our blog) and an amazing Digital Odyssey. I worked with a mind-blowing council and it’s been great working with my council. I’ll be posting more on OLITA in another post.
- I don’t usually include a Day 6, but as the conference went into the weekend, here it is. The highlight of this day was the OLITA Spotlight, which I convened. I also was a human book for the first time. My title was The Accidental Techy and I had a good time answering some questions. Needless to say, after all of this, I was exhausted. I’m still recuperating!
Needless to day, this was not my typical week and in fact I’m still trying to figure out my “typical” week. As always, Super Conference was great and I’m looking forward to catching sessions I missed through the virtual stream.
