For the last few weeks of my life from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., I have been working on my library's Tech Fair. We did one last year, mostly focusing on Digital-e, our program in which students and faculty can check out items such as Amazon Kindles and Flip video cameras. This year, we decided to go all out and invited vendors to the event. We also opened it up to staff and other area colleges to present what they are doing with technology.
The event, which was yesterday, was a big success. We had classes on the first and fourth floors that discusses the different technologies that the university or the company they represented offers. Some of the demonstrations included how dentists can make crowns, how to use Endnote, and how to use Tegrity. A demonstration about our new digital library was on the third floor.
We also had a number of well-known vendors on the first floor, including Dell, Apple, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. One of my coworkers recently got an iPad, but the Apple representative did not have one. Luckily, my coworker was willing to show it off to help out Apple and it was a hit among those who visited the booth. Next to the Apple booth was our Digital-e booth and because of the iPad, not many people looked at the Kindles (hence the title of this post).
It took a lot of hard work to put the tech fair together. Many of our staff members worked long hours to make this event a success. We were able to give out door prizes at each class and we also had a Dell netbook donated to us for the grand prize. Most importantly, we were able to give faculty, staff and students technology information that they may would have never heard of. We hope that they use the information that was provided to help make their education a little bit easier.
We plan to do this event again next year (with more money) and hope this will help us with promoting new technologies to the university. See you next year, Artie.
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