[Karen Berry McCool]

ACRL’s Distance Learning Section had a virtual poster session in April, which believe it or not was actually planned back in January!  I was REALLY impressed with it, and as a virtual attendee I found it very engaging, as anyone could comment on the posters and thus talk with presenters/other viewers almost in real time.  Presenters could create posters in whatever format they wanted, which was an educational experience for attendees in and of itself (there were some design/media programs I had never seen before).  I’m not sure what platform they used to host it (it may have just been on ALA’s website), but poster platforms included Microsoft Sway, YouTube videos, Powerpoint/Google Slides with/without embedded video/audio, static “slides” created in Canva or something similar, etc.  Posters were supposedly supposed to be archived after the event, but the link doesn’t seem to be working for me at the moment.  In any case, here’s where the posters should be, as well as a Facebook post advertising the event, and a blog post about it.

[Karen Berry McCool]

I attended NASIG a few months ago, and their approach was to let vendors present in a lightning round session.  I appreciated this approach, as I personally don’t really have the institutional means to have worthwhile one-on-one engagement with vendors,  but still benefit a lot from being able to see what the latest products and trends are.  I think that this could be a great opportunity in addition to what everyone else has suggested above.

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