LSA office hours

[Gary_Simons at SIL.ORG]

Heidi,

>My $0.02. Office hours are pretty lightweight, since I'm willing to sit
there
>all by myself (poor me :-) if necessary. It's an excuse not to go to
talks.

Make that $0.04--I'll be happy to join you again for the whole time.  As
the visibility of OLAC grows along with the growing utility of its search
services, we should start attracting more attention.

-Gary




                                                                           
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Jeff was just asking me if we should do office hours again at the 2007
LSA meeting, and I thought I might as well post to the whole group.
I do think we should do office hours again. We only got 3-4 visitors, but
that's 2 more than we got with the booth at Oakland, and it cost us
nothing but a few hours of our time. This year I'm going to put some
thought and effort into better signage, maybe bill these hours as a chance
to get help on any sort of technical issue. There were tripods here and
there and of course plenty of fine walls, if I had only thought to make
bigger
and better signs and bring some tape, we might have gotten a bit more
traffic. Also, consistency is our friend - we want people to get used to
coming to OLAC with their technical questions.

We actually had wireless access in the room we were in, thanks to leakage.
We can probably expect to have it next time, too... it would be nice to
have
ready maybe some handouts with links to useful sites, and one about
formats,
and one about 10 tips for texts or something like that....

My $0.02. Office hours are pretty lightweight, since I'm willing to sit
there
all by myself (poor me :-) if necessary. It's an excuse not to go to talks.

Heidi

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Heidi Johnson, PhD
Project Manager
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
1 University Station C3200
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712

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