NECC - the exhibit floor July 12, 2006
Posted by Debbie Stafford in : NECC2006 , trackbackA big part of NECC (and ALA) is the exhibit floor. Wandering through the area lets you see so many vendors all in one place. Collecting free goodies is always fun. I like to use these freebies as give aways during professional development back at my school.
This year there was the usual variety of vendors some who have been around for a good while such as Adobe, Apple, Scholastic but some new ones as well. Many of the vendors give mini workshops at their booth and these are often as good as or better than the other workshops.
In terms of Libraries, only some of the exhibits pertained solely to libraries. There were a few library automation vendors, and a very few database providers (the main one I saw was Gale). In terms of equipment I saw nothing specific to libraries. I would like to see some new products for barcode scanners. But I saw nothing here and do not remember seeing anything at AASL in October.
There were lots of vendors offering school management programs, and those instant feedback programs which use a small clicker device. Internet safety, online courses and tutorials were also there. But I didn’t see anything really new in these areas.
Many of the booths that I spent time in offered free content, for example NASA and Library of Congress.
I would be interested to hear what others thought of the vendor exhibit.
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