Hi everyone, please forgive me the cross posting but I wanted to make sure that no one has missed hearing the news about this year’s in person event for the Northeaster IUG Regional Group
Northeastern Regional Meeting - October 16
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Hello Northeastern IUG Members!
We’re excited to share that our 2026 Northeastern IUG regional meeting is officially on the calendar!
Friday, October 16, 2026 (10:00 AM to 2:30 PM)
Mid-Hudson Library System
103 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Getting there and parking: Mid-Hudson has a free on-site lot, but it’s a small one (roughly 35 spaces, and some of those go to staff). They own the lot, so once the lines are full they can tuck a few more cars in, but we’d rather set expectations honestly up front than have folks circling at 9:55. There’s a public lot about a 2-3 block walk away (roughly a third of a mile) that makes a solid backup. Carpooling with colleagues is very much encouraged!
Staying overnight? Mid-Hudson has a rate arrangement with the Inn at Bellefield in nearby Hyde Park, which is directly across the street from the Culinary Institute of America (so, you know, dinner is handled).
Clarivate will be joining us in the morning to share product updates, walk through the roadmap, and take your questions. After lunch we’ll open the floor to the group for discussion, which is where these regionals really earn their keep. We’ll also carve out time to talk about the future of Northeastern IUG (how often we should gather, where we should meet, and what would make these days most useful to you).
Lunch will be provided (thank you, Clarivate!). We’ll be gathering dietary restrictions through the registration form.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT? This year’s agenda is still taking shape, and we’re building it from what you tell us. Sierra, Polaris, the Vega suite, cataloging and technical services workflows, migrations, integrations, staffing, that one thing that’s been quietly driving you up a wall since March: it’s all fair game. Let us know when you register.
CALLING FOR PRESENTERS! If you have a workflow, project, migration story, or lesson learned you’d like to share with the group (short or long, formal or informal, five minutes or thirty), we’d love to hear about it. User-led sessions are the heart of these regionals and we’ve got room on the agenda.
And while we have your attention: IUG 2027 is heading to Boston, which is about as convenient as the annual conference is ever going to get for this crowd. Consider this your early nudge to start the budget conversation now 
We’re looking forward to bringing the Northeastern community together in Poughkeepsie!
Questions? Contact Jeremy Goldstein (Minuteman Library Network) at jgoldstein@minlib.net. And join us on Discord in the #iug_east to stay connected between events!