SLA Asian Chapter's ICoASL 2008

I attended SLA Asian chapter's conference ICoASL at Delhi. It was a welcoming change to see that each speaker got minimum of 10 minutes to present their paper. They had two parallel sessions. Very few library conferences in India allow paper presenter to spend 10 minutes. Depend on chair person of the session, some speakers even got more than 15 minutes.

Also, SLA folks came to the conference and organized membership drive in Indian rupees. I was told over 30 new members joined. I think SLA is trying to be global in their membership. As a member once can attend atleast one free onlin learning program every month through their Click University. It helps library professionals continuously learn new things. I wish Indian association do arrange such things.