[unyoc-planning] Update on the conference

[Elizabeth Irish]

Hi Logan,
I don’t have a link for a meeting today. I can join, but could you resend?

Thanks,
Liz

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 10:41 AM Rath, Logan (lrath) <lrath at brockport.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Happy New Year. I was out the second half of December for a septoplasty. I
> have some updates about UNYOC 2026 that we can discuss today.
>
> The long and short of it is that NYLA doesn’t have room for us to
> co-program during the *entire* conference. They did express interest in
> having UNYOC members submit proposals but cannot guarantee a track of our
> own. Their conference has about 850 people so the spaces are mostly already
> booked without additional room. They did say there was room on Wednesday
> for our programming if we wanted to hold our event that day.
>
> The options I’d like to discuss are:
>
>
>    1. Holding UNYOC 2026 in Saratoga Springs earlier in the week
>    (Tuesday, Wednesday)
>    1. At a hotel in Saratoga Springs
>       2. At Empire State University if they have the space (this option
>       would likely be less expensive but would cause people to have to get from
>       the hotel to the venue and may not be as nice.
>       2. Maybe having the CE event remain online so that more people can
>    attend it (and then it doesn’t have to be right during the conference)
>    3.  Holding UNYOC 2026 somewhere else at a different time.
>
>
> I think we’re still meeting at 11:30 today so I’ll see you on Zoom.
>
> --
>
> *Logan Rath*, PhD (he/him/his)
>
> Librarian, SUNY Brockport
>
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>
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