This was my first time attending an ACRL national conference and unfortunately I was only able to attend for a couple of hours due to a family emergency. I am a LIS student in my first semester at SJSU and work full-time WSU Libraries as a paraprofessional. This conference was an excellent opportunity for me to network and understand the issues that face academic and research libraries across the nation, to find out what the hot-button topics in our specific field really matter. Unfortunately, I was not able o explore those topics to my full satisfaction. However, I am reticent in the idea that I will be able to come back to the ACRL’s website after the conference and peruse the goings on and follow up on those topics I missed.
For the one aspect of the conference I was able to attend, the poster presentations on the morning of Friday, March 14th, I will say that it was intense. My experience could not have been better, my team member and I were busy the entire session with questions about Edentity, assessment, and e-portfolios! Every question led to more questions by attendees and with each question there was an exchange of information that benefited us all, every participant gained something from the interactions and it was a thrill! So I would like to thank all the poster session attendees and poster session organizers of the Friday morning session, you are all awesome!!!!
For everyone interested in more information about the poster presentationa my teammate and I gave, I will have more information posted to the virtual conference site. Thanks again ACRL-Seattle attendees!!!!!
Kind regards,
Brian McManus
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