Re: Any Experiences with In-House Training and Development?

From: Simon Spero <ses_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:46:16 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Nordstrom, Kurt <Kurt.Nordstrom_at_unt.edu>wrote:

>
> Unfortunately, in today's economic climate, the prospect of being able to
> ship your developer team across the country to attend week-long seminars or
> conferences or what-have-you is not quite as realistic as it once might have
> been, especially in the academic and library world.
>

Doesn't UNT have a pretty good. and pretty big PhD program. with a lot of
fairly tech-savvy (and probably quite hungry) students enrolled?  If you put
out bowls of food and drink, and approach them slowly, you should be able to
score some high-grade learning on the cheap.

Simon
Received on Wed Jul 20 2011 - 08:48:35 EDT