Last weekend was the busiest one I’ve had in a long time – the culmination of about two years’ work with a group of colleagues in organising the 5th New Librarians’ Symposium. The weather last weekend was uncharacteristically wet, wild and woolly (for a Perth September), but happily the symposium itself went off really well. [...]
A few things I’ve learned over the years when it comes to conference presentations: Don’t try to present your entire paper. That well-researched, rewritten numerous times, and much agonised-over paper will contain a lot of interesting detail and insights you will want your peers to actually read. Use your presentation to pique their interest so [...]
With Kathryn and Sue, I spoke about the VALA2010 conference at an ALIAWest-organised event last night. It went well and I was amazed to see the large number of people who turned up. Photo was taken by one of my colleagues, Molly (that’s madradish to you!) and shows me trying to poke one of my [...]