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

It made me remember my first time at CIL 2000… how exhilirating it is to get [...]]]> ..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 up in front of peers and have something to say…and have them listen!

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. [...]]]> 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. Instructional design for librarians is HOT right now. Are you developing classes? Are you teaching colleagues? You soon could be!

Internet Librarians are poised to “own the future,” according to keynoter Lee Rainie of Pew Internet fame. My favorite part of his stuff is the fact that Pew looks at how people use and interact with Internet technologies…not just the technologies themselves. It’s about the people first folks!

Internet Librarians are easy to talk to and you can learn stuff. Have a glass of wine and chat someone up at the reception. It’s fun!

We must never stop learning and looking at how quickly our libraries are changing.We may be talking RSS, blogs and IM now but what will we be talking about at IL 2010?

The future of the public library web site lies in customizing the experience for our users (USERS, thank you), including a local slant for browsable Web directories (thanks to David King), RSS feeds, and a portal feel. Jenny Levine urges library Web developers to generate buzz with their sites — and to keep those blogs active. It gives our users a reason to return.

Commiserating with two or three colleagues over good Japanese food, Falafel or the Jamba Juice is a great, intimate way to exchange ideas and share yourself and thoughts about libraries. I recommend it!

If the ILS vendors won’t give librarians what they want, the users will do it for them. What does that say about the benefits of an Open Source ILS free to all libraries who want to use it thus cutting the cord on these companies? (Things that make you go hmmmm)

WebJunction is there for library folk to exchange ideas, get tips for technology planning and to learn. Don’t miss this most cool virtual LIS community. (I just took another look…wow!)

Librarians never need to be out of the loop with the tools presented in sessions like Greg Schwartz’s “Making the Most of the Blogosphere.” Use Feedster and Bloglines, or the aggrgator client of your choice, to always be the one in the meeting that knows what is happening in the LIS world (and beyond).

Libraries need a “blogging policy” for staff and a “blog style manual” for their own blogs. Admin: Don’t be surprised when you find out one of your librarians has a popular blog that people read and learn from or one of your own is anonymously blogging the day to day trials and tribulations of reference work. This is not really a bad thing (although bloggers should abide by a personal set of ethics and protocols). We must educate staff, administration and our users to make them all aware of this new form of Web content. RSS as well! I’m tickled with the handful of Early Adopters at my library that actual got RSS and NetNewsWire and use it.

Internet Librarians want laptops to use all over their libraries, at home and on the road to conferences such as this.

Internet Librarians don’t want bloated, irritating virtual reference software.

EXTRA:

A gaggle of LIS Bloggers setting off for wine and food is a force to be reckoned with.

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

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

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.

Our PPT is here.

Questions? Comments about this one? IM me! mstephens7mac

Thanks to my blogging pals for all the good times…

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 got to talk about how information literacy as a goal [...]]]> 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 in libraries csn be achieved through staff training, the Web site, public classes and more.

My PPT for the talk is here!

Tools to make blog searching easier:

* Use FEEDSTER

* Also try Waypath

* No two blog search engines are the same.

* Daypop, Popdex, Technorati look at what’s hot in the blogosphere

* For finding specfic blogs: Blogorama, Feedfinder at feedster

Greg — First time I’ve heard you speak — well done!

* Link virtual reference services in your blogs (Does SJCPL do this?) (YES we do!)

* Treat community bloggers like memebers of the press.

* Blog your statitics

* Try a photoblog to let people see how cool things are at the library

* Blog sites [...]]]> * Blogging humanizes a Web site, that’s missing in a lot of library blogs

* Link virtual reference services in your blogs (Does SJCPL do this?) (YES we do!)

* Treat community bloggers like memebers of the press.

* Blog your statitics

* Try a photoblog to let people see how cool things are at the library

* Blog sites related to news stories and tell the newspaper

* If you don’t have a blog, get one! It’s an information channel.

I have yet to truly adjust to the west Coast. I’ve hit the bayside trail everymorning before 6am to walk, commune with my music library via my iPod and ponder the day’s stuff. Two presentations to think about today.

I also met two neat ladies from Illinois who were walking down to Cannery Row. I [...]]]>

I have yet to truly adjust to the west Coast. I’ve hit the bayside trail everymorning before 6am to walk, commune with my music library via my iPod and ponder the day’s stuff. Two presentations to think about today.

I also met two neat ladies from Illinois who were walking down to Cannery Row. I said it last night at dinner… I’ll say it again… librarians are friendly folk.

Tea beside me, I’m going over some PPTs… See you at the Conference Center!

Take a look at this:

http://kinja.com/user/netlib2004/

For a compendium of blogs being written here at the show by Richard Akerman from http://blog.akerman.ca/ who is staying at the Portobello as well.

Marydee Ojala is also posting at http://www.dysartjones.com/