Caveat Lector

This is for my own reference as much as anybody’s. If you’re not coming to Milwaukee, feel free to skip this post and move on.

Friday October 19th: DSpace tutorial, 8:30 to 12:30. (Ugh, I’m going to have to rent a car and drive to this. They couldn’t start at 9 so I could take the first bus in?)

Saturday: preconferences, none of which I’m interested in; not going. (I must say, ASIST could stand to brush up its preconference game a bit. An entire precon on RSS?)

Sunday:

• 11:30 New Members Brunch
• 1:00 Future of Institutional Repositories (I’m pinch-hitting for Ken Frazier on this panel, I was recently informed)
• 3:30 Online Communities
• 5:30 Leadership Development Program
• 6:30 Welcome Reception

Monday:

• 8:30 Live Usability Lab: OA Archives and Digital Repositories (I’m on the panel. Monkeys! In barrels!)
• 10:30 Plenary
• 1:30 Social Computing in LIS Education (may be preempted by poster session)
• 3:30 Social Justice and the Information Professions (may be preempted by poster session; if not, Approaches to Teaching and Learning Info Retrieval as backup)

The thing about the poster sessions is a big argh. The Five Weeks poster is scheduled during the first poster session, which is up against the usability panel I’m on. I’m asking to get the poster moved to a different session, because I think I’m the only Five Weeks peep going to ASIST, but I have no idea whether they’ll do it. Argh.

Tuesday:

• 8:30 Opening Science to All
• 10:15 Social Computing
• 11:45 Awards Luncheon
• 2:15 Seeking Knowledge in a Social World (with Tagging and Social Networks for backup)
• 4:00 Social Software (with Transaction Log Analysis for backup)

Wednesday:

• 8:30 Standards/Restrictions/Reinterpretations (with Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval as backups; why is everything so good at this time?)
• 10:30 Plenary
• 1:30 Best Practices… in Data Curation (as I want to be part of the developed workforce in this area, I’m interested!)
• 3:30 Complexity and Value of Managing in the Digital Environment (Social Capital as backup)

I’m thinking I’ll skip the President’s Reception and go the heck home. But I may change my mind.

So, anybody up for a bloggers’ dinner on Monday or Tuesday? Looks like I also have Monday lunch open.