[Fla-facrlboard] Summary of evaluation responses

Fri Nov 22 12:17:30 EST 2019

Hi, all.

A little late to respond to these (been a busy week) but I have some suggestions for the next year - and future - program conference committees when considering proposals. A couple of years back Michelle Demeter shared some recommendations with us on the committee and those were helpful in informing our practices. Some of these are reflected in the attendees/ participant surveys but some are kind of behind the scenes-y:

  *   Consider type of institution as a criteria for proposal submissions - goal: to increase diversity of libraries/ institutions represented
     *   Include a question in the proposal submission form for type of institution
     *   Guide the committee to intentionally consider diversity among types of institutions represented in the program (especially as we actively pursue diversity among library presenters (beyond "librarians")
     *   Recruit members to serve on committees from a variety of different types of institutions
  *   Continue multi-track programming
  *   Continue smaller poster sessions (1/2 and 1/2) for longer periods of time like we scheduled them this year
  *   Make sure boards/ backing and set-up logistics are secured at least 6 weeks out from conference so poster presenters can plan
  *   Have conference theme and CFP ready by FLA

Apologies again.

Thanks!
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I'm attaching the spreadsheet I made with the comments from the evaluation (attached) and summarized below.

What people liked about the conference - I created tags of common themes in the responses:

Likes (Q4)      Frequency
Quality/Variety of Topics       12
Break Out Sessions      10
Networking      8
Poster Sessions 4
Reception Dinner        3
Vendors 3
Pre-Conference  3
Well-Organized  3
Speakers        2
Venue   2
Affordability   1

A few of the comments (Q5) that stood out:

  *   Have a pre-conference every year!
  *   Add a keynote speaker.
  *   Closer hotels (3 mentions).
  *   Have room monitors (for keeping time).
  *   Add a lightning round session (in lieu of one of the poster sessions).
  *   More networking opportunities - this person felt that "friends hang out with friends" and it was hard to approach strangers. So.........

My suggestion to that last one is to create a team building ice breaker game by placing stickers on everyone's name badges (maybe 5-8 different animals, to create 5-8 different groups - stickers placed on the badges before registration opens) and then at a specified time or event - maybe a coffee break - have everyone get into groups with the same animal sticker and solve a problem, or come with a answer to some question, etc... Or, it could be an impromptu lightning round session (maybe then leads into the actual lightning round session) and each group presents on the topic/solution...  Or it could be less formal, and have some sort of swag/gift for people that were able to find all the people with the same animal sticker and take a selfie with them and post the pics to Twitter using a particular #hashtag...

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Guy Cicinelli, MLIS
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