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by Jason Griffey on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 7:54pm
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Jason Griffey 2 (non-member)
Mon, 06/22/2009 - 8:43pm

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Karen Schneider's picture

Preconference guidelines?

Karen Schneider
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:39am

The OSS IG is interested in submitting a preconference proposal. What are the guidelines for this?Do these go through PPC or Education? 

 Karen G. Schneider, LITA OSS IG cochair

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Jason Griffey's picture

Preconferences

Jason Griffey
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 12:16pm

 

Karen,

 Do you mean for Annual, or for Midwinter? For Annual, they do normally go through PPC. Education handles the precons for Midwinter.

 LMK if I can help!

 Jason

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Galen Charlton's picture

Preconferences

Galen Charlton
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 1:44pm

Hi Jason,

I'm also on the OSS IG.  The preconference we have in mind would be for Annual 2010.

Galen

 

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Karen Schneider's picture

Answering myself but still have questions

Karen Schneider
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 2:31pm

Ah, found this:

 http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/aboutlita/org/litamanual/litamanualsection11.cfm 

 But... what exactly does this manual mean by self-supporting? What is the IG's role in determining this? How is the site of the preconference determined? 

 Thanks -- 

 Karen G. Schneider

OSS IG Co-chair

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Melissa Prentice's picture

Preconferences held at

Melissa Prentice (staff)
Wed, 07/22/2009 - 7:15am


Preconferences held at Annual go through PPC, while Midwinter workshops are typically derived from regional institutes and come from the Education committee.

Self-supporting means that all expenses associated with putting on a given precon or institute - ALA overhead, speaker support, AV, catering - should be built in to the registration fee for that individual event. Pricing is determined by the LITA office and neither the IG nor PPC need to worry about that when developing the workshop - except maybe to be aware of extraneous stuff that can increase cost, like a panel of speakers or excessive AV/equipment requirements. While we can pass those costs on to registrants, we like to keep our precons priced competitively with other divisions.

“Site selection” refers to regional institutes. Annual preconferences are held on site at Annual conference, usually at the convention center, on the Friday before conference starts. They usually run 9am-5pm, so you should plan on 6 hours of content (accounting for a 90 minute lunch break and two 15 min breaks).

Let me know if you have other questions.

Melissa

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Mandy Mastrovita's picture

Hello! Just following up on our IG's proposal :)

Mandy Mastrovita
Wed, 09/16/2009 - 12:46pm

Hello, PPC:

I was just wondering if we could get any information about our IG's proposal (Digital Library Technology IG)

(it was submitted by Mike Bolam, my co-chair on the committee)

If nothing's happened yet, that's cool, I just told Mike that I'd follow up to check & see if there were any snags ...

Thanks for your help & many thanks

Mandy Mastrovita

mandym[at]clemson.edu

Mandy Mastrovita MFA, MLIS
Digital Production Librarian
Clemson University Libraries
Campus Box 343001
Clemson, SC 29634-3001
email: mandym@clemson.edu
phone: 864.656.3739
fax: 864.656.0758
IM screen name: mandym@clemson.edu

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