[Eg-oversight-board] Conference Question for pre-conferences

[Sharon Herbert]

+1

Sharon
Quoting Ruth Frasur <director at hagerstownlibrary.org>:

> +1 from me as well.
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Terran McCanna <
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>
>> +1 from me
>>
>> Terran McCanna
>> PINES Program Manager
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
>> Atlanta, GA 30345
>> 404-235-7138
>> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I forgot to bring this up at the EOB meeting.
>>> The conference committee is planning to make a decision on extending some
>>> sort of perk to those who volunteer to present pre-conferences.  As you
>>> know, our pre-conferences are different from the regular track programming
>>> in two ways.  The pre-conference sessions are usually 4 hours in length and
>>> attendees have to pay an additional cost to attend.  These sessions are
>>> often like little mini training camps and we need to find the most
>>> qualified presenters/instructors we possibly can.  We are asking a lot from
>>> these presenters and the conference committee feels that they should be
>>> compensated in some way. We'd like to extend an offer of free conference
>>> registration to those selected to present the pre-conference sessions.  We
>>> don't need a vote from the Oversight Board to proceed but I would love to
>>> hear any positive or negative reactions to this before we go further.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Grace
>>>
>>> --
>>> Grace Dunbar, Vice President
>>> Equinox - Open Your Library
>>> gdunbar at esilibrary.com
>>> 1-877-OPEN-ILS  |  www.esilibrary.com
>>>
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