And the people played games...

Over 110 members and guests attended NEFLIN's Annual Meeting on Friday, September 12th at the Embassy Suites in Jacksonville.

You can see from the pictures the day was full of fun -

• the Game Room gave attendees a chance to PLAY Guitar Hero on an Xbox, Dance Dance Revolution on a PlayStation 2 and a variety of games on a Wii. Many thanks to our volunteers for encouraging PLAY - Mickey Boyd (MRBCNC), Michael Kucsak (University of North Florida), Michael Schofield (Bradford County Public Library), Josh Webster and Amanda Edwards (Lake City Community College)
• Vickie Lepore (Lake City Community College) and Mary Weatherholt (Union County Public Library) led a great session - Putting Together a Winning Gaming Event.
  
• Helene Blowers spoke to a full house about Transforming Your Library with 23 Things @ NEFLIN. Her slides are available on slideshare.net.
• The NEFLIN staff gave an overview of all the services we offer - it's AMAZING!
• we PLAYed bingo - and Danny Hales (Suwannee River Regional Library), Be Astengo (Alachua County Library District), Julie Davis (FSU MLIS Candidate and St. Johns County Public Library intern), and Suzi Blaze (Alachua County Library District) went home with baskets full of goodies.
  
• the lunch was great
• we gave out prizes to libraries who REALLY use our Continuing Education Program.
• Jacksonville Public Library received the Golden Apple Award for sending the most staff to training
• Putnam County Public Library received the Making the Most of NEFLIN's Continuing Education Award.
  
• And we finished the day with a great presentation by Helene Blowers (that's a whole 'nother post). Her slides for this are also up on slideshare.net.
  

If you missed the meeting and want to

• learn more about what's happening at NEFLIN you should attend a Virtual Open House. These one-hour sessions will provide an overview of NEFLIN services and will be conducted in our new online web conferencing classroom.
• actually HEAR Helene Blowers you can listen to an interview she did with the folks at maintainIT about investing in Library 2.0 technologies to strengthen libraries and communities.
• see a gaming event and learn more about it, watch the blog for an announcement of a new workshop with Vickie Lepore.