However, after VALA .....

I came across delegates contributions/comments/blogs.

At Libraries Interact 'Tango' gives a good wrap up of the conference, and informs the 'distance challenged' *-) that the papers etc. will be available on the VALA website by the end of February.

Some the other delegates have blogged about the conference...
Peta Hopkins on Innovate, how fast the time passed...

Kathryn Greenhill gives an interesting rundown of "tech tips at a conference" at librariansmatter, it seems that the wireless connections at the venue were not very good. There is a great post on 'Day three' that lead me to Luke Wroblewski's web site 'Functioning form' and his session on "Designing for todays web".

CW at Ruminations also talks about the 'spotty' wireless connection. However her comment on the speakers...
"The keynote speakers have been GREAT, very inspiring! I love it when someone expresses succinctly something your befuddled mind can only occasionally bump up against, and help confirm and build on ideas, thoughts, and observations"
...will send me back to read the papers when they become available, as 'befuddled' as I am...

The Connecting Librarian has great posts about some of the sessions, one of interest to me was,
Kate Davis - Gold Coast City Council
“Be my buddy: IM and the future of virtual reference”

The Red Dirt Librarian also has a post on IT services to support libraries putting into words some of the general frustration felt in this area.
And for those of us 'distance challenged' its a whole other story....*-)

Thanks must go to those bloggers that have publicised and blogged about the VALA 2008 conference, without whom...
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