Tips to Get the Most out of Your Next Conference Experience
This post from Allison C. Shields is full of useful tips—on everything from networking to live tweeting—just in time for the spring conference season. I’m attending (and, with any luck, volunteering at) my first CALL conference in May—so excited.
I have one additional tip, based on my recent symposium experience. If you can, take five minutes after each presentation just to reflect and make some summary notes. It will give all those new ideas a chance to sink in, and save you from that information overload feeling at the end of the day.
My First Symposium™
I gave my first professional presentation at an e-reading symposium this past weekend.
It was a terrifically informative day; the talks were on such diverse subjects as serendipity, close vs. distant reading, fan fiction, read-along records, commuter reading, and locative reading. The keynote by Bonnie Mak was a fantastic romp through book history as she sought the “e” in e-reading.
Of all the kind words and positive feedback I received, perhaps most exciting was being encouraged to submit my paper for publication. My goal for this year was to submit at least two papers for peer-review; along with a currently-in-progress paper on rare books in law libraries, I’m thisclose to achieving that goal and it feels incredible.
