The Charleston Conference: 25th Anniversary Celebration of a Meeting

摘要

Every first week in November the streets of the historic district in Charleston come alive with librarians who specialize in serials, acquisitions, collection development and recently digital preservation issues; and publishers and suppliers engaged in marketing, selling and licensing content to libraries. This year, the November 2-5 days attracted just shy of 1,000 participants, making it the largest conference ever at Charleston. It is also the longest run of a conference not sponsored by a society or trade association. The brainchild of Katrina Strauch, Collection Development Librarian at the College of Charleston, she launched it as an informal brainstorming of librarians with similar professional responsibilities but the cat got out of the hat and it has steadily grown for 25 years.