Research Catalog

Title

Organizing scientific meetings / August Epple.

Author

Epple, August.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 184 p.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Congresses > organization & administration
• Congresses as Topic > organization & administration
• Meetings > Planning
• Planning Techniques
• Science
• Science > Congresses > Planning

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: what can go wrong? -- 2. The decision: to run or not to run -- 3. Scientific and related events: variety delights -- 4. Social events: something for every taste and budget -- 5. The program: how to accommodate pigs in a poke -- 6. Selection of the meeting site: a touch of Russian roulette -- 7. The dates of the meeting: you can't win -- 8. Publication: cruel and unusual punishment -- 9. Selection of participants: how to lose old friends and make new enemies -- 10. Committees: you have to live with them -- 11. Accompanists: you better love'm -- 12. Office and staff: don't take chances -- 13. The budget: a jungle with pitfalls -- 14. Fund raising: some would rather see their dentist.

ISBN

• 0521563518 (hardbound)
• 0521589193 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96037969^

OCLC

36083527

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library