When the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO), Ohio's chapter of the Association of Academic & Research Libraries (ACRL), began planning for its 2020 conference, the COVID-19 pandemic hadn't yet begun. However, when COVID-19 arrived, the Conference Planning Committee was quickly compelled to make decisions about whether to move the conference online, how to deliver it in an online format, and how to help ALAO members adapt to the change. This article explores how decisions to move a conference online can be made and implemented while meeting the needs of the conference-planning organization and its members.

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走向数字化：将会议转变为在线形式的策略

当俄亥俄州学术图书馆协会 (ALAO) 是俄亥俄州学术与研究图书馆协会 (ACRL) 的分会开始计划其 2020 年会议时，COVID-19 大流行尚未开始。然而，当 COVID-19 到来时，会议规划委员会很快就被迫决定是否将会议转移到网上，如何以在线形式进行会议，以及如何帮助 ALAO 成员适应变化。本文探讨如何在满足会议策划组织及其成员的需求的同时做出和实施将会议转移到网上的决定。