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In 2008 LabMan will be in its 9th year and will continue to be an informal, inexpensive, and friendly conference designed for people associated with the maintenance of computer workstations in colleges, universities, K-12 school districts or libraries. It is the goal for each ensuing conference to continue this tradition, while enhancing the content of the presentations and enjoyment for each participant.
In 2008, LabMan will be held at the Minnesota State University, Mankato's Centennial Student Union.
The conference is being sponsored by MSU's Academic Computer Center, a division of the Information Technology Services department, as well as all of our Partners and Vendors.
Importantly, attendees will have the opportunity to meet their colleagues from other institutions who, like them, face various challenges in putting together technology in academic computing labs and classrooms for the wide variety of needs each institution faces.
Because of the casual nature of this conference, the schedule will provide ample time for questions and answers during and after the presentations. Invariably, the discussions will extend beyond the presenter and the attendees are encouraged to exchange information. We hope that the attendees will find these interactions to be very valuable.
Internet connections will be available at the conference and at our labs around campus. The conference will be held in the same building as one of our computer labs and wireless access is available throughout the university.
The Great Lakes Academic Computer Lab Management Conference was started at Wayne State University in 2000 to fill a void. The staff at Wayne State's Undergraduate Library were frustrated with the lack of on-the-job human exchanges. Electronic communication was insufficient and the existing conferences failed to adequately focus on issues involving the management of computer labs. So they decided to host a conference focusing on these needs. The conference is relatively small, to allow for plenty of interaction between participants. The conference will focus on issues surrounding public computing in an academic environment. The conference continues to be inexpensive, to allow those who cannot afford to attend the existing large-scale conferences to participate.
In 2001, the conference moved to the Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis University Library. The newly dubbed LABMAN more than doubled in size yet kept its simple roots. It remained a single-track conference focusing on issues revolving around the management of public computers in an academic environment. The Labman conference has traveled to several highly respected universities throughout the Midwest. Computer lab managers & staff are encouraged to attend from all across the Nation & abroad.
2007: Wright State University (Dayton, OH)
2006: Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN)
2005: Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
2004: Eastern Illinois University (Charleston, Ill)
2003: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
2002: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
2001: Indiana University-Purdue University (Indianapolis, IN)
2000: Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)
