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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Darla Grediagin wrote: > Do many school librarians go to this conference. I have a scholarship > to attend a conference in the Spring of 2007. I am getting more and > more interested in the technology side of library. I have just helped > with the installation of Koha for our library circulation/catalog > program. I am trying to feel out whether this would be the conference > to choose. > Hi Darla, It's only the second year of the conference. I managed to make it to first ever code4lib last year and enjoyed it. It is definitly on the technology side of librarianship. Most of the people there from my impression were involved in academic (University level) libraries one way or another, with some sprinklings of people from various vendors. Overall though it's a quite inviting conference. If you've helped installed Koha I'd imagine people would be interested in hearing about that (I know I am). It sounds like excellent material for at least a lightning talk. It seems a pretty good group of people and a mix of topics. I will say some were on the more technical and technology-orientated, but if that's what you're interested in I think the networking opprotunities will be pretty good. I think that some of the more general "library technology" conferences are Internet Librarian and Computers in Libraries, but I've never made it to either of those. Access is supposed to be great, but it's later in the year. I haven't had a chance to go there yet either. I think some of the audio files of presentations for code4lib2006 are up at the website (www.code4lib.org) Here's the schedule from the conference last year (http://www.code4lib.org/2006/schedule). I'm not sure what the conference will be like this year ;). I'm guessing the next few years of this conference might be a bumpy but it'll smooth out as it becomes more estabished. Jonathan T. Gorman Research Information Specialist University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana 216 Main Library - MC522 1408 West Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 244-4688