Cool conferences = light blogging

I expect blogging will be lighter than usual between now and next Thursday as I have two conferences coming up.

First off, tomorrow here in Toronto I'll be attended BookCamp Toronto, an unconference on "he future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age." The program looks very interesting and as you can all imagine I'll be keeping a keen eye out for ideas relevant to the future of libraries. I'm also looking forward to meeting Peter Brantley of Archive.org for the first time.

Tuesday and Wednesday next week, I'll be at Managing Data for Science, the ICSTI 2009 conference. The program there also looks great. I also expect to meet Richard Akerman at the conference for the first time f2f, odd when you consider how long we've both been scitech library blogging and that Toronto and Ottawa aren't so far apart. Of course, this is another conference that keenly interests me as respects the future of academic libraries. It's worth noting that Dorothea Salo's recent presentation Save the Cows! Cyberinfrastructure for the Rest of Us is a great introduction to the topic and I'm finding it serves very well as preparation for the conference.

I'm traveling to Ottawa on Sunday for some fun family stuff, so I'll have an off day on Monday. I'm planning to go to the new Canadian War Museum, which is supposed to be very impressive.

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I will mirror this post on the Science Blogging Conference homepage. Let me know if I missed you (i.e., if you ever mentioned or intend to mention the conference on your blog). This will be updated until everyone is exhausted!
John Wilkins is in Arizona attending a Philosophy of Biology conference (another one of those "I wish I could be there" things) and liveblogging the whole thing:
You can follow the conversation about the Conference by checking in, every now and then, the Blog and Media Coverage page on the wiki.
I couldn't agree more with Bonnie Swoger's sentiment that academic librarians need to stop going to library conferences, although I perhaps might not go

David,

It was truly amazing, I really enjoyed my time there. I was there from about 11am until 5.30 with a lunch break so I was able to get a quick tour of everything. It would easily repay a second visit.