Sarah Giersch’s photos from the poster session of the 2007 Annual Meeting can be found here. Above, Kim Lightle of Middle School Pathway whoops it up with Susan Van Gundy of NSDL Core Integration.

Each year Lee Zia, NSDL’s program director, sums up our collective Annual Meeting experience with a few elegant lines of haiku. This year’s offerings have been published in Zia’s new Expert Voices blog entitled, “A View from NSF.” Read his blog introduction here.
The 2006 Zia Annual Meeting Haiku can be found here.

Bob Peck Chevrolet building, Ballston, VA
There isn’t much that’s distinctive about Arlington, VA. The rooms and snacks at NSDL’s conference hotel, the Westin, were great - they were just as good as in any Westin anywhere - but that’s the point. Arlington is anywhere and nowhere. Except for the building across the […]

Witnessing NSDL Annual Meetings over the years, I’ve seen a natural transition in the themes and topics that bubble to the surface. In the early days, a lot of conversation formed around the nuts and bolts of metadata standards, repository architectures and how best to search in a distributed environment. Now, the themes have moved […]

(l-r) Panelists Sherry Hsi, Rob Rothfarb, Mick Khoo, and Mimi Recker
Why do people come to your website? What do they do there, and what could you be doing better? The 2007 NSDL Annual Meeting panel “Beyond Webmetrics” showed how to seek answers to those questions by gathering user data from a variety of […]

A team of collaborators led by Alan Wolf, University of Wisconsin and Flora McMartin that included Glenda Morgan, Cathy Manduca, Joshua Morrill, and Ellen Iverson surveyed 4,678 faculty members from 115 two, four, and gradutate level colleges and universities during the Fall of 2005 to find out how they used or did not use digital […]

You will find lots of information about the Annual Meeting in a Special Issue of Whiteboard Report. Please use this blog to share your Annual Meeting reports, personal impressions, photographs and restaurant recommendations. Contact Brad Edmondson , or Carol Minton Morris (or talk to them in person) for registration information.
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