I felt we had a great conference and a great start on sharing.
As promised, the blog pages have been expanded (see the right-side column for the new pages).
Priority ONE!
First: please provide some feedback on the first CUC held July 31. We have grants and other support to justify (and thanks to all for that!) , and we’d all like to get some ideas on what worked, what didn’t, what can be done in the future — provided you want future CUCs, or some other format.
Future Conference Topics
As per suggestion: A page has been added for you to submit ideas for future conference topics, or perhaps entire CUC conference themes, if enough people are interested.
If you see something you like, comment and refer to it for support.
Topics pages
As promised, I’ve tried to come up with an arrangement for these that attempts to logically combine some general topic areas, based on the topics suggested in the first session (not just the ones we got to!). Anything that doesn’t fit can go under “Others“. (Please look at the pages first; some cover a lot more than fits in the title.)
(If you’d really like to split something out after trying this arrangement, that can be done. It’s flexible!)
Please make your comments, offer links, ask questions for others to respond to, etc. using the form on the most-nearly-appropriate page. Note that RSS should be available for any comment or post, so you can get a feed for a specific thread that you’re following.
I’ve added some links to sites, blogs, info, just as examples to give an idea of how we might use links on these topics. I tried to stick to those that I knew (hoped) would not object (okay, that means mainly my own, at this point), but I hope you’ll have suggestions for more in the future.
I will restrict things like blogs/wikis/Facebook and such to the original owners giving permission, rather than anyone else suggesting them, unless already offered publicly; my example being the ASL Ref Dogs blog which was promoted publicly already. That’s why I only used my own professional blog in the group for individuals, but please offer your own if it has useful professional info for others.
A note on the comments: you can use an RSS feed to keep track of this blog in general, and for specific posts and comments. That way you can tell if somebody replied to your question, supported your suggestion, etc.
One of the most valuable things we’re likely to retain from the first CUC is the contact we made with others, in other institutions, and the beginning of sharing what we have. This blog is only one way to facilitate that, and it doesn’t have to be the only method.
– Dennis Van Arsdale, Boreham Library, UA Fort Smith