I continue to check UKSG’s LiveSerials blog for updates during today’s opening sessions. I found some of the reporting to be “interesting” e.g. this post from the opening address:

Char Simser, President of NASIG, is greeting us from our sister organisation in the US. It’s Char’s first trip to the UK and to UKSG. It’s been a year of firsts for NASIG apparently including: no longer volounteer organisation; at the conference in June in Pheonix they will have organisational sponsership; they’ve just had their first election; migrating content to a new website (available in the next 6=8 weeks) and the website will be linked into their membership database; increasing support for continuing education (“following in UKSG footsteps”); further intregation of vendors etc. Jill Emery is incoming president and is also present at UKSG. Char invited us all to NASIG, June 2008 (“It will be warmer”).

Um, NASIG still is a volunteer organization; the change here is that the organization is now able to allow organizational (e.g. corporate) sponsorshop. And this year isn’t our first election; we’ve just had our first election using online voting. (NASIG has been in existence and has been having elections since 1985!) I realize that this isn’t official reporting but…folks, make sure you make accurate notes!