Welcome to the CIL 2010 Blog
Don Hawkins March 9th, 2010
Welcome to the Information Today blog for the Computers in Libraries 2010 conference. Can you believe it–this is the 25th annual CIL, a quarter of a century since it began! Think of all the changes that have happened in your world during just the past few years, let alone 25!
We are pleased to bring you late breaking developments from the conference, so watch this space, especially as the time nears and during the conference, April 12-14.
CIL 2010 Venue
CIL 2010 will be in Arlington, VA at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City–the same venue as last year. Preconference workshops begin at 9 AM on Sunday, April 11, and the main conference will take place Monday, April 12 through Wednesday, April 14. Postconference workshops will be on Thursday, April 15.
The theme of the conference, Information Fluency: Literacy for Life, and the focus of the conference will be on the solutions, technologies and practices that those working with computers in libraries need to deal with today. As usual there will be a plenary address each day, followed by five “tracks” of sessions. The popular “Gaming & Gadgets Petting Zoo” returns on Sunday evening, April 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, and the famous Tuesday evening session, “Dead & Innovative Technology” is on Tuesday evening (surprise!), starting at 7:30 PM. You will hear more about all of these events in following posts of this blog.
If you plan on blogging at CIL 2010, please send me an e-mail (dthawkins [at] infotoday [dot] [com]), and I will add you to the Other Bloggers page of this blog. You will also get a bloggers ribbon to wear so that your fellow attendees will know that you are somebody special.
Now is the time to make your hotel reservations and travel arrangements. Special hotel rates are available through March 6. You can make your reservation with Meeting & Travel Consultants, Inc. (MTC) either online, by e-mail, or phone at (732)-549-3985.
All of us at Information Today welcome you to CIL 2010. If there is anything we can do to help, please get in touch.
Don Hawkins
Columnist, Information Today, and CIL 2010 Blog Coordinator
