I'm wondering if anyone on the Koha team is considering setting up tables or demos for any of the library conferences? A lot of library directors and key personel attend, especially the big conferences, and would not otherwise hear a thing about Koha. Many directors seem to cultivate a single representative from a single vendor and then have them provide ALL their information about what is and isn't possible, how much it costs, etc. Attending a conference would help break that cycle and may almost certainly add to Koha development. These two are a sampling of some of the ones I'm guessing would be most accessible from NZ: 3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference 16 - 19 Oct 2005 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia http://conferences.alia.org.au/ebl2005/index.html The 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries ** 12 - 15 Dec Bangkok, Thailand http://www.icadl2005.ait.ac.th/ There are, however, many others coming up: World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/index.htm 8th International Beilefeld Conference: Academic Library and Information Services: New Paradigms for the Digital Age 7 - 9 Feb 2006 Beilefeld, Germany http://conference.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/2006/programme/ American Library Association (Midwinter Meeting), *** 20-25 Jan 2006 San Antonio, TX, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/
lars@rovaniemelainen.com wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone on the Koha team is considering setting up tables or demos for any of the library conferences? A lot of library directors and key personel attend, especially the big conferences, and would not otherwise hear a thing about Koha. Many directors seem to cultivate a single representative from a single vendor and then have them provide ALL their information about what is and isn't possible, how much it costs, etc. Attending a conference would help break that cycle and may almost certainly add to Koha development.
Koha has been out and about to a few conferences now. The ones ive been involved in are the Ohio library assocation conference, in 2002 in Columbus Ohio. The think linux conference in Toledo Ohio, in 2002 also. The ALIA conference in Sydney earlier this year. Katipo and HLT have also presented and had a stand at the last 2 LIANZA conferences in NZ. And we have a stand at the one again this year. Joshua from Liblime, plus Owen and Stephen from NPL were at the Conference in Columbus. And Joshua and Liblime were at the ALA conference early this year also. So we try to attend as many as we can, but its an expensive business. Often very expensive. We simply dont have the huge marketing budget that the big vendors do, so we have to pick and choose. For Katipo, the LIANZA (the library association of NZ) conference is our big focus for the rest of the year. If anyone else wanted to attend any of the other conferences, let me know and I can help with hints, things that worked for us etc. Chris -- Chris Cormack Katipo Communications Programmer www.katipo.co.nz 027 4500 789
I'm wondering if anyone on the Koha team is considering setting up tables or demos for any of the library conferences?
Yes various of us do - so we're going to the NZ Library Assn Conference, and Joshua has been to ALA, we've been to an Austrailian one earlier in the year. If going it needs to be with a chance of sales because they are expensive to get to - the stands etc usually aren't cheep, so it's only worth going if the people attending are people you can support I think. However they are a great moral boost which is always nice. Cheers Rachel ---- Rachel Hamilton-Williams General Manager, Katipo Communications PO Box 12487, Wellington, New Zealand Phone +64-21-389 128, or +64-4-934 1285 Fax +64-4-934 1286 Web www.katipo.co.nz
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