There is a SirsiDynix Institute that sounds pretty interesting on the 2nd of October. I have an appointment in the AM, so I probably won’t be able to attend , but you can:
At the Elbow: Understanding Users’ Perception of Process and Effort
Presented by: Ulla de Stricker "”Consultant, de Stricker Associates
Date : Oct 02, [...]

Towards an Open Source Archival Repository and Preservation SystemRecommendations on the Implementation of an Open Source Digital Archival and Preservation System and on Related Software Development

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I’m catching up on my podcasts (mostly because I had to take the train into the city today) and I got to listen to a great IT Conversation with Jeff Bonforte from Yahoo!.
Jeff starts out by telling us that anger is the most untapped emotion in start ups and innovation - and that’s unfortunate because [...]

First - Amen to Dorothea! Every one in a while I read something on someone else’s blog that makes me think - that’s what I’ve been thinking but unable to put into words! Dorothea’s Training-Wheels Culture post is one of those posts.
Dorothea’s post starts by pointing to the results of my library school [...]

Color Schemes, Color Palettes, Color TheoryThe Canonical List of Online Color Resources for Designers (updated periodically with neat stuff)
The Full System: Note taking, scheduling, and studying
Beyond Wikipedia: 20 References You Cant Do Without
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xqOAI - Open Source Software at Princeton University Library - TracxqOAI is an XQuery-based data service provider conforming fully to the OAI-PMH 2.0 specification. It provides harvestable OAI-Dublin Core XML records.
Lola: Learning Objects Learning ActivitiesLoLa is an exchange for facilitating the sharing of high-quality learning objects.
On the Dublin Core Front: The Catalog’s Last StandThis article [...]

Tomorrow the new WordPress 2.3 will be released. I’m excited, and a bit annoyed. Why is the release on a Monday? Why wasn’t it on Saturday so I had the weekend to upgrade and make the necessary changes? Well, I guess I’ll be waiting until next weekend to upgrade. If you [...]

Yesterday I gave a presentation at a special library on how to use the power of blogs and wikis to improve communication and collaboration within your organization. The slides are online, but if you’ve ever attended one of my talks, you’ll know that the slides are just a quick intro. The meat of [...]

One of the great things about doing hands on workshops is that there is always someone there to push you learn something you didn’t know! Or someone there to tell you something you didn’t know. Now, some instructors may not like that - but I’m all for it!
On Tuesday, Tim Siftar of [...]

As I mentioned earlier, I gave a Tech Topics session last night for the Philadelphia SLA Chapter. Well, a few hours before I left work for Philadelphia, I got an email informing me that Google had added presentations to their office suite.
I have tried to use some other collaborative presentation suites and always ended [...]

Last night I gave a hands-on workshop for the Philadelphia SLA Chapter. Today you can see the slides and the video of that event.

The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & Blogs [slides, video pt1, video pt2] SLA Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, September 18, 2007

WeblogMatrixCompare them all
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I was looking for a page defining what a Millennial was for a friend and I came across this article from 2 years ago that I think hits the nail on the head - not for her purposes, but for mine. The article is from http://www.ltimagazine.com/ltimagazine and it’s titled “Millennial” Learning: On Demand Strategies [...]

That’s right - I finally have the results for you. You can browse the survey results on Survey Monkey here, but I don’t feel that that gives you the full picture, so I did a little bit of analysis of my own.
First, I went through and made school names conform to one standard (where [...]

ON CLASSICALFree MP3 downloads and WAV/CD recordings.

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Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on.
We’re giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually.
Get your application in soon - the deadline is the 6th of [...]

Conversion Central: 101 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More

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Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century

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That’s right folks, it’s official. I now have my final grades and am done with library school! I am now an MLIS graduate of Drexel University (and will be paying for the rest of my life). I’ve promised a what I learned in library school post - and it’s coming, I just wanted [...]

Comparison of wiki farms
Blends for FriendsOffering the ultimate tea gift for tea lovers - personalized tea blends

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I have a lot in the works during the next two months so I thought I’d share the list with you all:

The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & Blogs SLA Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, September 18, 2007
Office Communication the 2.0 WayLawrenceville, NJ, September 20, 2007
Web 2.0 and the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, [...]

I’m working on cleaning up the results for this survey right now (making university names the same, etc) and I’m seeing a few people pointing me to the library websites for their required courses (”You can always look on the schools’ websites for this info.”). I probably need to clarify what I was interested [...]

Ages ago I mentioned that I was going to put this blog into OCLC and by extension WorldCat. I didn’t want to submit the record without consulting a few experts (Jennifer Lang and Christine Schwartz — thank you both) so it took a bit longer than I expected. Since you can’t see my [...]

Last week, I gave an introductory presentation to content management systems. Today I’m sitting with RayAna trying to decide whether to use Drupal or Joomla for the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association website. We installed them both and keep going back and forth. For those who attended the talk - or are [...]

From my inbox:
The ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, convened by the Digital Library Federation (DLF), is studying the discovery needs of research libraries and their patrons, in order to recommend interfaces to the ILS that discovery applications can use. We want to know what kinds ofdiscovery applications (outside the traditional ILS public access catalog) [...]