<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">Hello, Oregon librarians! I have a question regarding conference recordings - is this still a thing?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">The backstory is as follows:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif">I'm on the board in another organization, National Storytelling Network. We have a conference in a few weeks (and this question would be for the future, not for this one) and another board member sent me the following question:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><blockquote style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">These days do librarian conferences still record their sessions, and sell the recordings?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">My workshops at OLA were recorded and sold, in the ancient days of cassettes — an important source of income for the organization. But maybe it gradually became less popular or feasible. These days anybody can make a [questionable quality?] recording on their smartphone.</span></div></blockquote><div style="text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">​As you can imagine, I'm now​ asking around in my organizations. I imagine that she's right, people don't do this much anymore, but it's possible, so hey, raise the issue. If OLA still does this, I'd love to talk with someone about that, but if any of you are involved with other groups (library-related or other) that still do this, I would love to be in contact with anyone involved with either conference planning or any vendors of this service.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Many thanks in advance,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Drea Douglas</div></div><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div>