Charleston, UKSG, NASIG, maybe ACRL or SLA come to mind. What would be the goal of participating? What kinds of librarians are you trying to reach? - RepoRat

Honestly at this stage I'm not sure, just trying to understand if there are big obvious gaps we're missing. The unknown unknowns as it were. UKSG I've done reasonably regularly, SLA and ALA people felt was possibly too general but happy to have a steer in the opposite direction. ACRL hadn't come up yet. - Cameron Neylon

Couple of different kinds of folks I think we'd like to reach. Those that need support and external validation. Those that need a bit more information. And in turn would like to get information on what librarians feel they need that we could provide. What info/support would be useful? Where should we focus our energies? - Cameron Neylon

about 30% of SLA is academic librarians, and their academic division is getting pretty big. i think ACRL would be a good one too - there will probably be lots of talk about alternative publishing/metrics/scholarly comm. - jambina

There were many publisher booths at CLA 2012 (http://www.cla.ca/confere...), but none that I can recall were actively educating librarians about OA. #datapoint - Heather Piwowar

The problem with trying to educate librarians about OA at conferences is that librarians have already decided en masse that they don't give a good goddamn. Leading a horse to water and all that. So I'll stick with the recs I made, possibly adding SPARC's every-two-years do (they keep changing its damn name), and maybe see if you can get on a CNI slate to hit the admins. (Preferably with bricks.) - RepoRat

There's CNI as well, though that is a membership organization and not a society/professional organization. The Charleston Conference and the annual LITA forum are two other annual meetings. There's also an e-science institute for librarians - the last one was in May in Boston, I believe. - Elizabeth Brown

Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit might be good, though probably a preaching to the choir. - Hedgehog

oh yes! CNI! come throw bricks with me! - jambina

Taiga. BWAHAHAhahahaha - sorry, that was not a serious suggestion. - barbara fister

If you want to reach a lot of librarians, the OLA conference is the biggest in Canada with a very large vendor room with all the biggies. - John Dupuis from iPhone

Thanks, will look into this. And if people want someone on a slate to throw bricks then we can do that to :-) Have done everything from "we all need to pull together" to "the sky is falling, get your s*** together!" in the past...and preaching to the choir is fine as well if there happen to be relevant folks in the congregation. - Cameron Neylon

SLA might be worth trying. All the pharmaceutical librarians too - Christina Pikas from iPhone