Since joining the library profession in 1995, I have attended A LOT of library conferences. In the early years, I found the presentations most useful, as I learned more about the field I had entered. In recent years, however, I most look forward to the opportunity to see old friends and to have informal conversations with people in my library world. I read a lot of blogs and journal articles, etc... so the conference presentation material now feels very familiar.
This week, however, I'm on fresh ground again. I have the opportunity to attend a non-library conference and I'm giddy with excitement over the topics because they are new and unknown to me. I'm at the NetSquared Conference and am working as a guest-blogger. This is the conference's third year and the theme this year is MASHUPS. In addition to the guest blogs I write on the conference site, I'm going to reflect here on the MaintainIT blog about what the things I learn might mean for libraries... now and in the future. I'm also going to take pictures of interesting things and will post them in the MaintainIT Flickr account.
More soon!

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