Me and @michelleab.bsky.social have discussed this issue w/ online confs. We had thoughts about folks having locally-organised viewing-type get togethers for the conference so folks could meet, share food etc. Might be tricky for CALC though as it's a but niche so ppl are far apart. - ThreadSky

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patchedelbows.bsky.social • 47 days ago

Me and @michelleab.bsky.social have discussed this issue w/ online confs.
We had thoughts about folks having locally-organised viewing-type get togethers for the conference so folks could meet, share food etc. Might be tricky for CALC though as it's a but niche so ppl are far apart.

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heroicendeavour.bsky.social•47 days ago

And the fact that critical approaches to libraries should be considered ‘niche’ makes me weep and realise how much work we have to do!

heroicendeavour.bsky.social•47 days ago

A sort of centrally-themed but locally-organised library camp type thing?

michelleab.bsky.social•46 days ago

We have discussed doing a CALC library camp...

jaffne.bsky.social•46 days ago

Ah, the good old days of library camp, when any and every topic was valid. I wanted to to a mistakes conference, where we'd all be able to talk about how projects/plans can/do go wrong but orgs would never fund attendance to learn about failing, & some would prob ban telling about their failures.

avwoman.bsky.social•46 days ago

michelleab.bsky.social•46 days ago

Yes! They really went hard for a while and then just...disappeared? A mistakes conference would be ace. Didn't Emma Coonan once do a keynote about mistakes/ failures?

littlebutfierce.bsky.social•47 days ago

That sounds lovely! I also really like the ALN model of one online, one in person day where booking one and not the other is acceptable: feels like it treads the middle ground of both options nicely.

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