CNI Spring 2009 task force meeting

Phew! I spent today at a very intense and informative conference, feeling a bit out of my league. I was at the Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting in downtown Minneapolis, and was rubbing shoulders with library directors from all the major research institutions. I was in this one session, and they're going around the room with introductions: let's see, there's the library systems director from the University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Tufts University, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, oh, and Ginny Heinrich from MCTC. :-) I heard the word "metadata" more times today than I have in any other conversation that I have ever had.

On the plus side, I learned a lot about digitization and data preservation projects all around the world. I learned some about what's going on with preservation of U.S. government documents (not enough) and how university libraries are fighting back against publisher restrictions (or at least some are trying). It was a day of learning and firing brain synapses. I'm trying to recover and attend to all my grading and course work after a long birthday weekend with my mom and now this conference, I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'm working on checking through D2L posts tonight, then will hit the grading and assignment development (INFS 2200, I haven't forgotten about your description assignment...) hard tomorrow.