OVER
730 ATTENDEES AT UMBRELLA -
THE
LIBRARY EVENT OF THE YEAR!
Early
analysis of the conference feedback shows that delegates thought
Umbrella 2007 was an inspiring and thought provoking conference
showing CILIP "at its best".
See
the latest comments on Umbrella
Blog, make your own contribution, and see 20 session reports
on the Clippers Wiki.
To
see the winners at the Awards Dinner, click
here.
With
the overall organisation of the event scoring a massive 95%
Good to Excellent rating it was felt that Umbrella 2007
provided delegates with a seamless conference experience leaving
them both inspired and enthused.
Comments
about the new modern De Havilland Campus also rated highly with
almost 90% of delegates commending the state of
the art Audio Visual facilities on a Good to Excellent
rating.
DELEGATE
QUOTES:
These
are just some of the many positive quotes given by Umbrella delegates
last week:
"The
best aspect of the conference for me was the vast range of sessions
available. The quality of the plenary speakers, Lynne Brindley was
inspirational."
"It
was great to see a bright new campus with fantastic facilities and
accommodation "
"Hatfield
House was delightful. In general it was great to have a whole programme
which was so rich and the chance to hear great speakers was good
too. The Mobile Libraries were great. "
"Umbrella
was very well organised and the staff were extremely helpful and
friendly. As a First Timer I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward
to coming again. "
"Good
programme structure, some fantastic sessions. First rate plenaries."
SPEAKER
PRESENTATIONS
Delegates
seemed very impressed with the level of content received from the
speakers at Umbrella 2007, rating the content of sessions 95%
Good to Excellent.
Delegates
who require copies of speaker presentations should contact the CILIP
Special Interest Group responsible for the session. Visit
the groups via the cilip website
for further information. As there were over 60 individual
presentations at Umbrella it is not possible to run them on this
website.
UMBRELLA
BLOG
Umbrella
Blog was launched prior to Umbrella 2007 enabling delegates
to gain prior information on the event. It also carried posting
during the conference with people commenting on the value of the
sessions attended. For those of you who would like to reflect
on the conference and offer useful information for future events,
please join the
discussion today.
Thank
you for your attendance at Umbrella 2007 and we hope to see you
again in 2009.
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