ODCE

Welp, I went and survived ODCE, but wouldn't you know it I forgot to come back here and talk about it. So here's what went down:

• I had 100% attendance! Yes, this means my one attendee showed up.
• There was another guy who was supposed to be there, and he didn't show up, and he left his 4 attendees and the organizers scratching their heads.
• None of those 4 attendees came to my session.
• I'm not surprised by this.
• I like bullet points.

My one attendee was very pleasant and in good spirits re: being the entire audience, and it was extremely worthwhile for me to meet her as she comes from an academic library quite radically different from my own -- private university, very small, low budget (e.g., they haven't bought into RefWorks because of the staggering cost). So I think that she went away with some valuable information, and I went away similarly enlightened. All good, all good. Plus, I've been making (small) inroads locally on the Zotero front with one of my faculty for whom RefWorks isn't really a good choice.

All-in-all, I'm pleased with how it turned out.

ODCE and Zotero

Woohah, I've been invited to speak at ODCE on Zotero and other bibliographic management systems. This is no itty-bitty poster session -- it's two-plus hours of workshop. Man. Ouch.

I'll be developing some sort of handout/slideshow/other sort of thing for the workshop and will, of course, be licensing it under some sort of Creative Commons license.

If you're planning on attending ODCE and read this, please do drop me a note and let me know!