Tame The Web

Couldn’t make it to Monterey? Guess what — many of the presentations and handouts are here:

http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/presentations/default.shtml

..of Internet Librarian 2004 was presenting with Jamie Wilson from Tower Hill School in Wilmington, DE. It was his first presentation ata conference and he was smashing! Scott told the audience and they erupted with applause… it was most cool.

It made me remember my first time at CIL 2000… how exhilirating it is to get [...]

Wrapping up today with IL2004… for your consideration:

As evidenced by the great group of people in our Make Learning Stick: Creating 5-Star, User-Centered Training & Instruction workshop, library folk are embracing their new roles as trainers and teachers.They had great questions and all participated. Scott Brandt gets this stuff and can explain it well. [...]

I can’t believe coming off of a great week celebrating libraries and technology in Monterey, the nearby town of Salinas is closing libraries:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/20/SALINAS.TMP

David King: http://daweed.blogspot.com/2004/11/my-thoughts-on-internet-librarian-2004.html

Librarian in Black: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2004/11/recap_of_intern.html

Steven posts this…

And links to the IL2004 wiki:

http://il2004.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

I’m interested to see how this plays out… take a look.

Aaron and I did our IM program Wednesday afternoon. We had a good group — many of whom are now instant messaging by the show of hands Aaron called for.

Our PPT is here.

Questions? Comments about this one? IM me! mstephens7mac

I am so tired… I will blog some wrap up tomorrow… what a great time it’s been here in Monterey! Plan on next year — October 24-26, 2005!

Thanks to my blogging pals for all the good times…

Whew! We did it! dear Steven’s voice was hoarse but it was a great time!

Questions ranged from why did I choose NetNewsWire as our RSS app of choice at SJCPL to “What about e-mail and listservs?”

Here’s the PPT: Teaching Weblogs in Libraries

I did my first session of the day and WOOOHOO was it fun! What a great group of folks present and a I got top share the satge with a school librarian named Jamie Wilson. It was his first conference presentation ever! He did GREAT!

I got to talk about how information literacy as a goal [...]