{"id":542,"date":"2008-11-13T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/our-paper-about-library-unconferences\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:05:36","slug":"our-paper-about-library-unconferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/our-paper-about-library-unconferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Our paper about library unconferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flexnib.com\">Con Wiebrands<\/a> and I gave a paper about library unconferences last week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lianza.org.nz\/events\/conference2008\/index.html\">LIANZA conference<\/a>. You can find the whole 5000 or so words here: <a href=\"http:\/\/opac.lianza.org.nz\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?bib=383\">The unconference: a new model for better professional communication<\/a> . Ignore the title &#8211; we both have *no* idea why we claimed it was *better*, rather than *different*.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to dust it off a bit and submit it for publishing. We are not sure which journal &#8211; it&#8217;s not the library tech that we usually write. <em>Any suggestions from you about a suitable journal would be most appreciated<\/em>.\u00a0 We will add in the results of our survey of participants of\u00a0 four library unconferences in Australia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The paper covers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Definition<\/li>\n<li>Open Spaces Technology<\/li>\n<li>History<\/li>\n<li>Elements of unconferences (decisions you need to make if you are holding one)\n<ol>\n<li>organisers<\/li>\n<li>publicity<\/li>\n<li>costs<\/li>\n<li>food<\/li>\n<li>venue<\/li>\n<li>numbers<\/li>\n<li>invitees<\/li>\n<li>weekday or weekend?<\/li>\n<li>volunteer participation<\/li>\n<li>facilitator and deciding topics for the day<\/li>\n<li>opening session<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Comparison between unconferences and conferences<\/li>\n<li>Results of survey of participants of the 2008 Western Australian Library Unconference.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Con Wiebrands and I gave a paper about library unconferences last week at the LIANZA conference. You can find the whole 5000 or so words here: The unconference: a new model for better professional communication . Ignore the title &#8211; we both have *no* idea why we claimed it was *better*, rather than *different*. We&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-8K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}