FROM THE PRESIDENT
Robert Freeborn
With both the Canadian and the United States Thanksgivings in our recent memories, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make the 2004 Montréal Conference an unqualified success. In homage to the Academy Awards experience, I intend to thank as many people by name as possible.
Firstly, I want to thank the following people who helped organize the Conference. The Program Committee (Mary Curran, Anne Draper, Elizabeth Icenhower, and Pat Riva) and the Local Arrangements Committee (Nancy Beland-Akong, Bobby Bothmann, Betsy Friesen, Lesley Lawrence, Laura May, and Sharon Rankin) for all of their hard work in arranging the Conference hotel, the pre-conference tours, the reception at the McCord Museum, and the multitude of interesting and educational discussions and workshops. A tremendous “Thank you!” goes out especially to Conference Co-Chairs Lisa O’Hara and Marc Richard for their leadership and commitment throughout the entire process.
Secondly, I want to thank the following speakers for sharing their time and expertise with us: Carol Baker, Liliane Bédard, Allyson Carlyle, Claude Fournier, Gaston Fournier, Rachel Gagnon, Trina Grover, Lynne Howarth, Karen Jensen, Katherine Kasirer, Mireille Laforce, Marsha Maguire, Robert Maxwell, Chris Oliver, Daniel Paradis, Guy Teasdale, Jay Weitz, and Linda Woodcock. Your presentations and workshops helped to make this Conference one of the best ever.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who was able to attend. For our first Conference outside the United States, we had 220 registrants, with some coming from as far away as Hong Kong, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand. As the sole AV cataloger at my institution, it is always wonderful to get together with others and discuss the problems facing us on a daily basis. I am hoping to see even more of our membership at our Conference in 2006 (at a site to be named later…watch this space).
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