NERCOMP-ing 2008 March 14
On Tuesday, March 11 I presented along with Heather Lea Moulaison at NERCOMP 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island. NERCOMP is the North East Regional COmputing Program. The conference is one of the regional EDUCASE conferences. For the library-folk who read this that don’t know about EDUCAUSE, it is a “nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” They have a rather large annual conference in the Fall and a series of regional conferences.
I never been to an EDUCAUSE conference or one of the regional ones before, so this was a new experience for m. I wasn’t really sure what to expect as far as the attendees. For the most part is was people who manage IT at colleges and not the hard-core programmer geek types. Many of the people were from smaller colleges and it was interesting to here about the issues they face. Everyone was really nice and the conference was well orginzied. While there was not a large number of librarians, I think it was a good conference for systems librarians and others in the library world that deal with technology to attend.
Our presentation was about Libraries as Web 2.0 Portals to Learning and I’m happy to report despite it not being at a library conference that is well attended (Standing room only!) and that we recieved a number of very positive comments. I really enjoyed my time at NERCOMP and plan on attending it or one of the other regional conferences in the future. I may even try to get to the national conference at some point.