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UPDATE: “Talkin’ Blogs” An LJ Roundtable from ALA 2005

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6261414.html The whole cover thing blows me away… wow! I can’t thank the group of people pictured there and Brian and the LJ folks for one of the best conversations I’ve had this year! Flickr set of the session: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/517913/ I was very happy to work with Brian Kenney on this article and gather the bloggers featured. I was impressed with their insight, candor and ideas for the future. Also, don’t miss my interview with The Feel Good Librarian – in its full-length Web version! Update: Meredith weighs in and I agree: I wish we had more space… the conversation […]

UPdate: Library Crunch

This is one to add to your aggregator!! I linked below but here’s Michael Casey’s blog: http://www.librarycrunch.com/ I’m intrigued by the twist “Library 2.0″… I just added it to Safari’s RSS feeds. Michael – I want to hear more about your work and your library… UPDATE: I am so excited to read these new voices of the Biblioblogosphere… and just looking at the last series of posts from Mr. Casey, I want to keep reading more. Someday, I want to sit across a table from him and talk all about this stuff! Wowza.

This Morning’s Presentation

This morning I’m speaking at the District 1 meeting of the Indiana Library Federation. I love to meet with Indiana Librarians and I’m especially happy because these folks are from my “hometown” — District 1 includes all of my county and the counties across northern Indiana. Here’s the talk, a new version of “Optimizing Tech” today: PPT File as 6 slides per page Bibliography

A Hoosier Librarian in the United Kingdom

Greetings! I’ll be off to England tomorrow. Internet librarian International begins Sunday October 9th with workshops and then the conference takes place over Monday and Tuesday. We’ll be in residence at the Millennium Copthorne Tara Hotel. I am looking forward to a few things: Presenting with Aaron and Brian Kelly on Digital Tools Presenting with my chum Rob from the Netherlands on Tech Training Rubbing some international librarians’ elbows at various lunches, dinners and meet-and-greets. Note that there will be “Dine Arounds” and Aaron and I are hosting a “Technology in Libraries” Thai dinner on Monday. Sign Up here. Then, […]

Still More Work to Do

Michael Casey, who JUST STARTED BLOGGING in September — wooohoo — commented yesterday on a post from 2004, 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff* (*without breaking the bank), and I wanted to put that comment here because it’s way back in the TTW archives. I couldn’t agree more with what Michael says: “Looking at this more than a year after posting causes me much frustration and angst when I realize that so many libraries — libraries that can and should have embraced all of these long ago — have yet to adopt more than one […]