Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Joe and I “opened” the Newcomer’s Welcome booth at 9:00am Wednesday morning at CCCCs. Well, at least we tried. Since we didn’t have a booth until about 9:55am, we hung out, chatted, said “hi” to people we hadn’t seen in a year, etc. Once the booth got set up we spent the last 5 minutes (of course it turned into 20) trying to get the fancy banner up. We could either pay the hotel lots of money to do it…or…figure out something ourselves.

I think we did ok. Needless to say, the banner hung a little crooked. But hey…it had character!

Susan and I sat at the booth again on Thursday. This time we not only had a booth, with chairs and a sign, but cool notepads (I forgot to take a picture). These notepads were SO cool that returning CCCCs participants wanted them (even Cheryl Glenn, the 2007 conference chairperson…she says the notepad was for her sister?!?!). Since Susan and I had been told it was “ok” to share some with the returning folks, we decided to implement a “pay it forward” system. Returning folks could take a notepad if they promised to be nice to all the newcomers they saw. The newcomers were nicely labeled with little yellow ribbons on their name badges.

Hopefully all the newcomer attendees at CCCCs this year felt very welcome!