More CIL to come but right now I’m languishing in my suite at the Embassy — Embassy Suites Indianapolis! Today: Two presentations for Hoosier librarians on IM and Optimizing Tech. And a chance to meet Michael Gorman who is keynoting??
Monthly Archives: March 2005
75 posts
Via Jessamyn: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2005/03/rss_for_the_aad.html How geeked am I that this gets me going: Rest assured that useful, flexible, and broad RSS support is a major design goal of our new website, and we hope our feeds will find good homes in aggregators throughout the district… and beyond! Watch for the new aadl.org coming in early July [2005].
http://www.lisnews.com/~Blake/journal/2909 Please read Blake’s wrap up and pay special attention to the last bit that I quote here: The ?core Bloggers? thing was surprisingly divisive at the conference and apparently outside as well. As Bloggers (Core or not, I was not) I think we need to talk about what we do and look at how we do things more and talk about ourselves less. What was being done from the conference was a great beginning, an amazing 1.0 of conference blogging.. Let?s look at how we did things and look for the next step. Stephen Abram said something about the […]
Aaron just put it up over at walkingpaper.org! http://www.walkingpaper.org/presentation/IM_CIL2005.pdf
Take a look: http://www.alise.org/newsletter/issue1_2005/poster_sessions.html Here’s Mike Pullin and Dr O’Connor with their most cool poster:
Take a look a report of Joyce Valenza’s piece about OSS and schools. Joyce and I are in school together. Her work for school libraries and internet skills blows me away! http://www.digitaldivide.net/news/view.php?HeadlineID=525 The terms open source and free software are associated with the same revolution. Folks who use the term free software use it philosophically to emphasize the importance of freedom from reliance on one vendor, freedom to see the source, freedom from complicated licensing, freedom from forced upgrades, freedom associated with greater software reliability, and the free support of the online community. A great dialogue is under way, with […]
Chad has posted final thoughts… Nice to meet you Chad!
After 3 workshops, two presentations and going to a bunch of great sessions as well as hanging with amd meeting some very cool library folk ..I’m home with my boys. And I’m exhausted. I’ll be posting notes and thoughts tomorrow. I hope all CIL 2005 attendees, bloggers, presenters, vendors and organizers are home safe and sound!
We are doing a live demonstration of Weblogging for Organizations!!
PowerPoint (PDF) (6.6 MB!) Evaluating LIS Weblogs (PDF) Types of LIS Weblogs Bibliography