For Presenters
For Conference Vendors: things you should know.
Vendor Registration Materials
Vendor registration materials have been mailed to exhibitors at last year's conference.
If you are interested in exhibiting at the conference, please download the Vendor Invitation with the information about the conference and the Vendor Registration form in either a PDF or Word format. Vendor registration materials must be received by January 3, 2010.
Hotel Information:
The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Downtown Albany, NY.
The conference room rate will be $112 a night.
To reserve a room in the hotel block make your reservation at http://www.cpalbany.com
- Go to RESERVATIONS on the left margin
- Fill in your travel date information
- In the section directly below the date information, click the "+" in front of "Corporate, Group & IATA Identification" to open additional fields.
- In the field "Group Booking Code" enter APX
Getting to the Conference:
The downtown Albany location of the SLMS 2010 conference means you won't need your car during the conference. Parking for the conference is FREE. Park in the hotel's adjacent parking garage and your parking will be validated - both for attendees staying over at the hotel and for commuters. And outside conference hours, there is food, drink and entertainment in easy walking distance of the hotel.
By Car:
Directions to the Crowne Plaza are available on the hotel website.
Need a ride or want to carpool? Check out the SLMS Conference Wiki and look at the discussions for Ride Sharing.
By Train:
The downtown Albany site for SLMS 2010 is a short ride from the Albany-Rensselaer station on Amtrak. Crowne Plaza is offering FREE shuttle service between the train station and hotel, simply contact them for arrangements.
By Airplane:
The Crowne Plaza is also offering shuttle service for attendees arriving from the Albany International Airport. Contact them with your flight information to make arrangements.
Are you looking for more information about the Albany area? Our friends at the Albany Convention & Visitor's Bureau have put together a great website of links and tourist information about the Albany area.
Conference Wiki:
Both during the conference, and leading up to SLMS 2010 the SLMS conference wiki is going to be the place to go for information updated information. We have placed a page on the wiki with the information about who will be vending at SLMS 2010.
Technology:
One of our goals of the conference is to break the walls of the traditional conference and work on building connections.
Are you on Facebook? Join the SLMS/NYLA group to receive conference updates and connect with your colleagues. If you haven't tried Facebook, maybe this is a reason to get connected.
Are you on Twitter? The conference is - slms2010. Follow us to receive updates and information about what will be going on during the conference. Post your own observations with the #slms2010 tag. If you haven't had someone to follow on Twitter, or haven't had a reason to try it, this might be your opportunity. Or just check the wiki or the conference main page where a widget will post the last few tweets.