Expo Info from Pat and Doreen!

Hello Co-Workers,

We would like to share with you our experience at the NELA Conference expo. In addition to the beautiful foliage, we enjoyed seeing all the vendors and would like to share with you our WISH LIST based on what we saw:

Eventkeeper Online Event Registration
For an additional $125/year, we could create a form for every event, instead of writing it down, patrons can then sign up for programs themselves from their home computers, or on a library computer. You can set a max for an event, send emails to registrants, and integrate an optional waiting list! For those who are not computer savy, we can still - dare we say, write in for someone requesting to sign up.

Self Check System
We were impressed with the self-checkout stations. At the check out station, a patron can check out, check in, (one in particular can check in several at a time!), access their record and pay fines with a credit card. BUT, no paper or plastic requests please!

We also entered several raffles, collected an array of pens, rulers and the ever-popular Troll pens! We also got to Trick Or Trick at many booths! After the Expo we attended the luncheon/talk with Gregory McGuire, author of Wicked. His quirky imaginative personality was entertaining.

Regards,
Pat O. and Doreen B.

Pat O'Leary and Doreen Buchinski