An open letter to everyone who spoke, attended and blogged the Public Libraries Track at Internet Librarian 2005: Thank you all for contributing to the track and its success. I was pleased to see so many folks attend and ask questions. I appreciate the energy in the room, the flashes going off when speakers posed with attendees, the hoots and hollers, the level of comfort the room had and the applause for the folks that got up to speak. I hope we can do it again next year in Monterey. mark your calendars: October 23-25, 2006! Special Thanks to the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
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It’s always good to read a piece called “Futurists Pick Top Tech trends” and apply the trends to how libraries and librarians might change. Take a look at this article in WIRED: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69138,00.html?tw=rss.GAD The trends: Simplicity Mobile Socialization R.I.P. Combustion Engine? Going Green IT Revolution of 2006 Devices will become simpler to use, possibly without the extra features that gum up gadgets like remotes and handhelds. With that, we’ll come to use or phones more for information, finding friends geographically (“who’s nearby?”) and voice recognition will make tasks easier. We’d better really get a grip on the mobile devices in […]
Finally – after months of reading, pondering, creating the actual survey in Zope, passing the Institutional Review Board application process, some anxious e-mails to my advisor Dr. Brian O’Connor at UNT and some wide-eyed and awake nights thinking, here is my preliminary research project survey! Please, if you are an MLS, in library school, or working at a library and blogging, take the survey! I know there have been other surveys and investigations of the Biblioblogosphere but please consider contributing to this one as well. It will lay the foundation for my further research — and — gasp! — dissertation! […]
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/monkiineko/index.html Try the 105 image movie and you will see Libraryman’s image as well as my submission to Infinite Flickr!