Archive | March, 2006

26 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

How am I ever going to catch up?

Due to my limited internet access last week and my busy writing this weekend I have over 1500 posts to read in Bloglines – Yikes! I’m hoping a lot of those are conference summaries of sessions I attended Anyway … I’m off to read and catch up.

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26 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Recovering – slowly

Meredith says in her CIL: Impressions post – “I feel like I've been run over by a train.” Great way to explain it Meredith! I was so wiped yesterday that I wrote up some of my summaries and then took a nap – and I wrote some more and went to bed early I had [...]

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26 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

It’s all in the name

Dave Hook has a good post over on his site about the controversy around the name “Library 2.0″. If we’re going to come up with a name for these ideas, I’d prefer a name along the lines of ‘The Library 2.0 Movement’ or something else that implies continous improvement. I think that’s a great idea [...]

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26 March 2006 ~ 16 Comments

The Web 2.0 Challenge

I know that you’ve been wondering since I posted about the Future of Catalogs what my favorite session was at CIL this year – well, here it is! Paul Miller is the Technology Evangelist for Talis – how fun does that sound?? Paul said “One day I’ll have a normal job” but why would you [...]

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26 March 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Open Source Software for Libraries

I think my pup (Coda) is tired of me sitting on the couch with this laptop – when I sat down this morning she jumped up and sat on my notes But that’s not the point of this post – I want to share with you the OSS options that Glen Horton shared with us [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Future of OPACs Catalogs

If I wasn’t finished with the conference and I was posting this live I’d say that this was the best presentation of the entire conference – now that I know what comes after I’d have to vote this as the second best. Roy Tennant started this presentation by killing the word OPAC and replacing it [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Cool Tools for Webmasters

I know I’m not done with my summaries yet – so why am I reading others?? Well I was just on Dave Hook’s site looking at the picture from our dinner – and saw that he did a summary of the Cool Tools session. I didn’t attend this session because I attended one at Internet [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Best of ResourceShelf

My first session Friday was the Search Engine update from Gary Price. You can tell that Gary loves his job just by watching him present. He was out of time and he just kept going and going hehe Gary put up his presentation so that everyone can benefit from it – so I’ll just summarize [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Why am I behind?

As you notice, I’m home and posting my conference summaries – I thought I should explain what happened. When we got to the conference we (bloggers) were given a key to access a limited wireless network – it was only available in one of the conference rooms, the press room and the registration area. This [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Keynote Day 3

For our last keynote of the week we had Lee Raine, Director of PEW Internet & American Life Project. Lee started out by asking us who was going to be blogging this and there were actually fewer hands than I had expected – he said it was a couple dozen, but it didn’t look like [...]

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