I’m up early! (J-E-T you are so BAD for me!) and I’m working on a few things for this mornings Public Library track at Internet Librarian 2005. So far this experience has been incredible! I taught 3 workshops over the weekend and got to chit chat with librarians from all over the US as well as Canada AND Copenhagen! Darlene Fichter and I taught “Organizational Weblogs” and my big AHA moment there was the fact that two of the participants were present because their organizations had a blogging initiative in their strategic or long range plans. Do you have such […]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
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Apple really has caused a stir: vidcasting is all over my aggregator! http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/ Reuters
The group assembled for the first presentation of the Public Libraries and Technology Track at Internet Librarian 2005 totally rock. If you are attending the conference, don’t miss this one because hot trends in web design apply to all types of libraries! In addition, the topic of web redesign is HOT right now. This press release points out some fascinating statistics. In planning for the presentation, I emailed the panelists a question. Because Michael Casey’s Library Crunch (add him to your aggregator now, I’ll wait) is one of my favorite reads these days, I asked the panelists this question: What […]
I’m not the only one shuffling around trying to get stuff done! See you in Monterey!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/1177868/
http://www.tadl.org/wireless/map/ Traverse Area District Library is my library away from home! Jeff, in IT there, IMs on occasion to let me know what’s happening. This just debuted! What a great service provided by the library that reaches out into the community using some pretty nice techie tools.Not only are library hotspots listed, but other free ones as well. I asked Jeff what their goals were. He said: “We had a few goals in mind: 1. provide our patrons with an accurate list of free hotspots in the area 2. gain additional real-world experience with (buzzword alert) AJAX, XML, XSLT, the […]
I know I’ve mentioned that I’m teaching at Dominican University SLIS this fall. One thing I really wanted to do with this group was introduce them to the Biblioblogosphere as readers and bloggers! From this came an assignment: they all got Blogger blogs the first weekend of class. Their task: 5 blog posts about libraries, technology and the Web! Natalie agreed to let me post a link to her site as a sample..and note her links to many other members of the class. these folks are doing well! http://whomovedmylibrary.blogspot.com/ Update: Rick made a great comment and I wanted to put […]
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2095642005 Nice article with some thought provoking points.
Nice pics at Marydee’s blog! http://www.onlineinsider.net/2005/10/ili2005-photos.html http://www.onlineinsider.net/2005/10/more-ili2005-photos.html
I leave early Friday for Monterey and Internet Librarian 2005. I hope to see many colleagues and friends and spend some time taking libraries and tech. See you there and please say HI! I’ll be moderating the Public Libraries and Technology track all day Monday — hope to see you there!