Ending ELUNA

The ELUNA business meeting was this morning in a plenary seession. The meeting mainly covered the work of the steering committee over the past year. The committee mainly oversaw merger of NAAUG and SMUG into ELUNA and planned this year's meeting. They also talked about next year's ELUNA meeting in Spearfish, South Dakota. The one change that may come in the format is that the technical seminar may precede the conference. I am looking forward to seeing South Dakota. There's lots of stuff to see there. Oh yeah, there's good news, folks. I talked with Sean and Patrick of South Dakota Library Network today, and they said the trout fishing out there is great. Have fly-rod. Will travel.

I attended the systems/ reporting session today. In the session, we basically discussed a host of questions related to various types of reporting. I won't try to go into all that here. If anyone is interested in what we talked about just email me and I will let you know what was said. I took pretty decent notes. I did find out that EL has at least one way currently that customers can share scripts (an ftp server.) That was news to me, but I am glad it's there. If you have any questions about that, ask about it on the listserv. Someone will give you the information to access it, I am sure. 

One of the benefits of conferences like this is that it humanizes reps that you deal with on a regular basis. I had the opportunity to spend time talking with a couple of our EL reps. One of them should be a stand up comedian. I had a blast eating dinner with him tonight. Everyone I have talked to here from EL has been awesome, and their willingness to spend time listening to customers, even customers at smaller institutions, speaks volumes about the company.