The Corporate Librarian

One of the people who’s been interested in Library Camp NYC for some time has graciously agreed to help find a place to hold the camp and to work on hotel space, for which I am forever in her debt. I’d gathered some information on possible locations from their websites (and in some cases, gone ahead and called), but I really haven’t been able to dedicate the time to the effort that it deserved.

Alan or John, any tips in terms of purchasing insurance (Is it a deal-breaker? How much does it run?), how much to budget for a space, etc. would be invaluable.

A bit of a departure from the blog’s focus, but I wanted to note that Jeremy’s set up a social network for library and information school students, Learning Librarians Network. It includes personal and community blogs as well as file-hosting space.

I think it’s built using Elgg Spaces, but I’m not positive. Anyway, check it out!

Unfortunately, the Brooklyn Public Library is booked March 10th and 11th, and only has a few hours free on the 12th. Jeremy has suggested Eyebeam as a possible venue, and I’m looking into that. I’m hoping to get the venue and hotel arrangements nailed this month, because honestly February and March I’m going to be worried primarily about my move to a new apartment.

Any assistance would be welcome.

Tagged by Dave Hook, and waiting to hear back from Brooklyn Public Library, the Corporate Librarian pulls back the curtain and reveals five things about himself you didn’t know!

1. The Corporate Librarian can put his feet behind his head. This is absolutely useless, but did seem to impress the other kids at the summer camp the Corporate Librarian went to.
2. The Corporate Librarian has been on a TV quiz show in high school.
3. The Corporate Librarian would have been on the PATH under the World Trade Center on 9/11, except he took a different PATH train that day from the one he normally took. OK, it’s a lame thing, but it’s what I’ve got.
4. The Corporate Librarian won an award for a poem his teacher submitted to Cricket magazine when he was very small. He was subsequently mortified that he had to read it in front of the entire school.
5. The Corporate Librarian cannot blow bubbles with bubble gum.

The Corporate Librarian tags - whoever feels like joining in - because he’s a nice guy that way. Just link back, because the Corporate Librarian is also shameless.

One area the Corporate Librarian’s looking into for 2007 is more training, in his case mostly various methods of financial analysis. We do have a training budget, but my impression is that the lower-cost we can go (getting training internally, especially) the better. The Corporate Librarian is curious whether work will pay for the SLA conference in Denver, but would likely go and just eat the cost regardless.

For those of you not working for a gigantic multinational corporation with its own training courses, computer-based training and so on, how do you balance cost with the need to keep training yourselves?