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 p…[Read more]

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 th…[Read more]

The Society for American Music (SAM) held a very successful online conference in 2020. They did everything via Zoom and it all went really well. The Texas Music Library Association and AMS-Southwest just held a great Zoom meeting over three days.  For that one, everyone was asked to make recordings of their presentations that could be played from…[Read more]

The ability to make appointments and to try out electronic resources (maybe short trial period logins, like some vendors already distributed in the past) are important. Also useful would be time window (s) with an open room (like Zoom, but whatever platform) where I could drop in for discussion with vendors but also having colleagues in the room -…[Read more]

Leslie McCall shared with me some communication about things NASIG is doing to promote participation and access to their upcoming virtual event:

In addition to our synchronous event, many of our other presenters will be recording their talks for on-demand viewing. We will encourage discussion of these events on the NASIG website. The entire…

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