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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!
Dateline: Internet Librarian 2004 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/
At IL in London, Brian Kelly told our audience: “The room is wireless, open up your laptops and start blogging and IMing about our presentation…” He joked then that they should say only nice things! But — how cool was this? We’ve heard about conferences where virtual communities spring up during the proceedings of folks commiserating in chats, private chats and actively blogging or congrunting. Is that happening here? I just read this at Library Stuff: I?m sitting here in David King?s session. I see only four other laptops. One is a blogger. So, 20% of all the laptops in […]
Opening Keynote Monday November 15, 2004 Lee Raine, Pew Internet in American Life (written with SubEthaEdit in tandem with Aaron on two Mac Powerbooks) Pew charitable trusts funds project with 2 goals: *wide public interest/news coverage *work useful to policy makers and tech folk Studies patterns of social interaction 63% of Adult Americans use the Internet Internet use is the norm… there is a shrinking minority of those who do not use it. Usage of the interent segmented in various ways: interests transfer to the online world “I’m a Data geek.” Expectations shifted…no longer a novely, but a utility Current […]
David King, who rocks my library IT world and does Web stuff at Kansas City PL, told me over dinner last night (with Aaron, Jenny and Sherree at the Indian place) that Kansas City PL has started RSS feeds for program info, subjects and more (Look at this page). I was thrilled. Then, this am, unable to sleep too long (West coast travel always gets me), I read Steven’s post about Cincinnati PL that greg Schwartz turned him on to last night after dinner. http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/feeds/ Such synchronicity! And an example of how cool networking can be at a conference like […]
One of our cool Reference librarians came to see me right before I left for CA. We talked shop and Macs and music..and I thought back to this post, written at PLA as he described with excitement his plans for a new computer purchase: Public Libraries should do everything they can to provide a computer — a laptop — for all of their librarians. (it’s also a pretty snazzy perk in a job where there aren’t bonuses and the like…) We have it GOOD at SJCPL, each manager gets a 15″ Powerbook and the means to take it anywhere! I […]
Steven posted about Blogging policies and mentioned he didn’t have any policies for blogging. Over drinks at the Portobello Bar, I told him I thought we all have some inherent blogging protocols that drive many of the blogs I read and link to as well as my own. So this morning, I pondered these, which line up so closely with the ones Steven pointed to: The Library Blogger’s Personal Protocols Respect your organization. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. If you don’t agree with a policy at your library, don’t badmouth the folks there. Research other views/approaches and post […]
Good day. Good flights. Safe and sound her in Monterey Bay. Most cool was meeting up with Frank Cervone at the SF airport. Last i saw him, we were across the pond! we got to chat all the rest of the way! Looking forward to some good sessions and some networking!
Tomorrow: I write a paper for school… Friday I leave for the West Coast and Internet Librarian 2004! Hope to see some of you there!