I'm finally getting around to sharing my final thoughts and notes on COMO 2011. The good:

•  all of the sessions I attended or heard part of  - great> excellent academic papers, Green Library presentation,  PBCore presentation, RDA, WREK (when do I get to be on the radio?) 
• seeing my fellow librarians and compadres from around the state 
• the vendors had candy and cute fuzzy toy sheep
• the paper presentation went really well (thanks Ginny)
• the presentation on automating social media (sigh, not so well thanks to everything listed below)

The bad -- egads, the scheduling (cataloging/metadata sessions scheduled against each other), the spotty wifi (!!!!!) and the lack of technical support (no projectors provided, only small portable screens, etc.)Notes on the academic papers:

• Movable, comfortable,configurable furniture is important (Emory paper on info commons)
• Gov Docs Librarians wear many hats, often it is a "secondary" duty  (Gov Doc Librarian salary)
• Automation reduces menial work which then means remaining work is more complex = more training and higher levels of abilities and competencies (Ginny Feher & me on automation in libraries: a DBM case study; submitted to GLQ for publication)
• I didn't take notes on the other papers but that doesn't mean they weren't good. ;-)

Notes on Lost in the Stacks presentation Notes on PbCore MetadataNotes on RDA panel