{"id":288,"date":"2006-09-04T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T17:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=288"},"modified":"2006-09-04T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T17:28:16","slug":"national-usergroups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2006\/09\/national-usergroups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Usergroups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment in the UK we have an &#8216;Aleph&#8217; Usergroup and a &#8216;SFX\/MetaLib&#8217; Usergroup. The former is quite formal, and the latter more informal.<\/p>\n<p>With the new arrangements internationally, I do wonder how long this will continue to be practical. It looks like the next AUG and SMUG meetings will be held back-to-back in the UK, with hopefully some overlap discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really in favour of one annual meeting &#8211; more conference like really &#8211; for all Ex Libris users in the UK &#8211; more like the ELUNA conference in the USA, and with the large number of Ex Libris customer&#8217;s in the UK, I do think this is a viable suggestion. However, there are practical problems in organising a single large conference, whereas the small AUG-UKI meetings three times a year can be managed more easily perhaps (although finding volunteer sites with big enough venues for this is also a problem sometimes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment in the UK we have an &#8216;Aleph&#8217; Usergroup and a &#8216;SFX\/MetaLib&#8217; Usergroup. The former is quite formal, and the latter more informal. With the new arrangements internationally, I do wonder how long this will continue to be practical. It looks like the next AUG and SMUG meetings will be held back-to-back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-igelu-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}