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This guest blog post comes to us from Jeremy Goldstein, Data Curation Librarian for the Minuteman Library Network, and Enhancements Co-Coordinator for the 2019 IUG Steering Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in 2015, I had the chance to attend my first IUG conference. I had been around Innovative libraries for about a decade at that point and had attended a lot of conferences by then. If I\u2019m being completely honest I was starting to burn out on the years of pitches from both vendors and other libraries to show ways in which we were still relevant.<\/p>\n

That conference changed everything for me. Instead of the standard conference fare, I found a program full of presentations that all made me better at my job, a bit more excited for its future, and gave me tons of new contacts that I rely on regularly to this day. As soon as I got back, I volunteered to join a pair of new task forces that were forming (one each from III and IUG) as well as the functional experts, and I\u2019ve been a dedicated member ever since.<\/p>\n

Since then, IUG has continued to be a driving force in my professional life. At the 2017 conference, I attended a program on automating reports with Python given by Gem Stone-Logan (which is still available on her website<\/a> and is utterly brilliant) that ultimately led me down an entirely different career path. I had always wanted to learn some coding and start taking advantage of the SQL features in the system, but I had never quite found an entry point that made learning that seem worth the effort. In the course of an hour at that conference that changed.<\/p>\n

Fast forward two years (and many MANY messages providing help from the community) and I\u2019m now in a new role, in which I get to support the data needs of our 41 member libraries and truly get to learn something new every day. I haven\u2019t been so excited to be a librarian since I first started out and I have IUG to thank for that. And at this year\u2019s conference in Phoenix, I now get to be one of the people on stage helping to pass along what I\u2019ve learned from this group to others.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, I\u2019ll see you there.<\/p>\n

Will we see you there?<\/strong>\u00a0Register for #IUG2019<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n
Read more:<\/strong>\u00a0Articles about IUG<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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