Umbrella 2011: First thoughts
Last week over two days, 500 librarians descended on a University campus in Hertfordshire for the biennial CILIP Umbrella conference. I was lucky enough to get funding from my local CILIP branch to attend.
This was my third year, but for me it was the best yet. Firstly I actually thought about which sessions to attend. Before I’ve always gone for the familiar and then wondered why I was a bit bored. This year I went for those that would introduce me to something new.
Secondly Twitter added a whole new dimension to the conference for me. From arranging pre-conference meet ups to providing a useful ice breaker when chatting during breaks. Aren’t you @twittername? being a useful conversation starter when you’re as bad at networking as I am.
I enjoyed tweeting the sessions and following the backchannel of discussions and comments. It also meant I could keep an eye on what was happening in other sessions. There’s an archive here of all the #ub11 tweets.
I’ll be blogging about each of the individual sessions I attended over the next week or so.
