What a great day!
Well, what a great day that was! Obviously my plans to blog during the day didn’t eventuate – what was I thinking there!!?
The day began with a coffee or tea break upstairs at the ACU North Sydney Library before we went downstairs for the official opening of the one8nine UnConference. After a brief welcome and introduction to the day we were intoduced to Amy Luscombe from Banarra who gave an entertaining and informative talk on Sustainability and what that means to those of us who work in Libraries. Amy’s talk was very informative and interactive and provoked lots of great questions which continued over morning tea.
After morning tea we broke into 4 workshop groups to examine a whole range of subjects: Google Docs; Libraries and Web 2.0; Vitual Libraries; and Flickr, Social Networks and Education. We then retired for lunch with some people staying in the staff dining room, others going to Greenwood Plaza, while the rest of us went to the Rag and Famish hotel (for some excellent crispy topped pies!)
The afternoon sessions saw workshops on Koha; Libraries and Social Media and Web 2.0; Google Analytics; a view on Web 3.0; Highlights of the ALA Conference before we rounded the day out with a video of the five finalists of the Book Cart Drill Teams competition at the ALA Conference.
A great day of interaction, collaboration and information sharing (and networking!). Lots of food and coffee and tea and a great opportunity to see the potential of various technologies.
Thanks again to everyone who came and participated with such great enthusiasm.
Rob!
