Last Friday I attended the STELLA (Science Technology Engineering Leaders in Action) Unconference at Brooklyn College. The participants came for all over the country. In a traditional conference the program is arranged in advance and is very much structured. The program for an unconference is arranged the morning of the gathering.
Amy Buckland, the eScholarship, ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator at McGill University Library, was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, but had to cancel since her flight to NYC was cancelled. Instead the organizers should videos of 3 talks from Ted Conferences.
The problem with any conference is that one can be only at one place at a time. There were two sessions on Friday and two on Saturday:
- Active learning ideas
- e-Books & Patron
- Future of Sci/Tech Libraries
- Technology Talk
- Conducting, interpreting and acting on user surveys
- Usage statistics, lies and damned lies
- Data Curation: What is a science librarian’s role and how do we guide our institutions to a sensible plan
- Marketing and outreach ideas
- Refworks, Mendeley and Zotero
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication
- Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, what measures do you want? Merged with Author Disambiguation, ORCID, Authorea
- Wikipedia, education, & libraries
- Collecting, Using & Teaching Standards
I thank the organizers:
Jill Cirasella
Meg Smith
Jeffra Diane Bussman
Neil Dazet
Joe Kraus
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