UCISA TLIG-SDG Conf 2008

Thoroughly enjoyed the UCISA TLIG-SDG User Support Conf in Reading, 1-3 July 2008. Well, I would say that wouldn't I, being conference chair!

Programme, including the presentations, is available from:
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/tlig/Events/2008/usersupport/programme.aspx

A big thank you to all who presented plenaries or workshops, facilitated discussion groups, chaired sessions, helped identify great speakers, organised the event etc. A lot of work goes into the these events and you only really know how once you've been on the organising committee.

Whilst it's not easy to relax when you're conference chair, I did try! It was great to talk to people over tea/coffee/wine/beer/G&T. I do hope that delegates were able to identify some things to try out back in their own institutions.

Now that that conference is over, I (& colleagues in the UCISA DITSS Sub-group) can start to properly think about the joint UCISA Advisory Services & IT Support Staff Symposium which will be held at Aston Business School, 7-8 July 2009. Aston Business School is a great venue (the accommodation is excellent) and we all think that having a joint event will allow us to create a fantastic programme and also to bring together advisory staff with those providing IT support in departments. For details on the separate events held last year, look at:

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sdg/ditss/Events/2007/ITSS%20Symposium.aspx
http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/tlig/aswg/Events/2007/ASWG2007.aspx

At the ITSS Symposium last year we used a Facebook group for discussion and feedback during the event. The DITSS Sub-group plan to go back to discussions started during the last symposium to see how delegates have fared since the event and to get ideas for the next symposium.