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NERCOMP 2007 (Worcester, MA)
Posted on March 22, 2007 4:50 PM
The Bowdoin contingent to NERCOMP was: Tim Antonowicz, Karl Fattig, Judy Montgomery, Rebecca Sandlin, and myself (Tina).
Tim Antonowicz partnered with Clarkson University to talk about the importance of having development servers in higher ed and affording that through server virtualization. Tim is really leading higher ed institutions to consider virtualizing their servers. He has presented Bowdoin's cutting edge work in at least a half-dozen cities, and was even doing a webinar a few hours after his NERCOMP talk.
Karl, Judy, Rebecca, & I spoke about our Library / IT collaboration efforts. Our talk yielded some interesting discussion about improved IT service for libraries and how to bridge the vocabulary barrier between IT & Library. One thing that struck me during the discussion was that we are much more ambitious than other schools. We're seeking collaboration between the IT and Library that is not just with select front-end services (instructional technology, Help Desk and Circulation). We noted that the Library piloted our Exchange server and is represented on search committees for Systems and Networking positions.
Rebecca had particularly good luck during the conference, winning a bike from the vendor raffle and a video ipod from the NERCOMP raffle.
Tina Finneran
Acting Manager of Education & Research Consulting