Looks like SlideShare is the tool of choice for the IL presenters this year. You can find many presentations from IL07 already online on SlideShare.
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Not being able to attend IL this year, I missed Frank and Darlene’s Cool Tools presentation, but it looks like Cindy did a good write up with links included! Or you can view the slides online.

I just had a short chat with a friend about the catalog at her local library. They used to have a terrible system that didn’t seem to work at all and now they’ve put Aquabrowser on top of it:
[09:47] Friend: *sigh*
[09:47] Friend: catalogs are so finicky!
[09:47] Nicole: yep
[09:47] Nicole: what’s the matter now?
[09:47] Friend: [...]

Presented by Ed Corrado of TCNJ - here are the 10 (or so) hacks for the Voyager OPAC (WebVoyage):

New Book List by Michael Doran:

Shelflister by Michael Doran

Spell Checker but not checking against your db - so you can get did you means that aren’t actually in your catalog. (ex at University of Waikato)

Search Voyager [...]

I presented with Sarah Theimer from Syracuse this morning. Sarah talked about how they use MediaWiki for keeping track of procedures. She started by asking “Will a wiki work?” and her answer was “Sort of” - my answer is YES!
It was fun to listen to Sarah because a lot of [...]

The Hollywood LibrarianThe Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film
VIAF - Virtual International Authority FileVIAF is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, soon the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and OCLC. The project’s goal is to match and link the library authority files.
Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the [...]

This list of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007, University of Edinburgh sounds interesting:
1. Keynote Presentation [pdf], Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University
Rick asks an interesting question: “Could it be that we are well enough funded to be comfortable with our traditional roles?”

2. [...]

I went from being excited about upgrading to WordPress 2.3 to being very nervous … anyone want to tell me that upgrading won’t break anything??
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I bookmarked this resource ages ago - but apparently it was only recently released:
The first official alpha version of Google’s OCRopus scanning software for Linux was released yesterday. OCRopus is built on top of HP’s venerable open-source Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR) engine and is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
OCRopus uses Tesseract for character [...]

I got to hear an update about the new releases of Voyager at today’s conference. One of my biggest complaints about our current system is that it’s ugly - so very very ugly! Now, I have no experience trying to edit the interface of a Voyager system (that’s not my job anymore), but [...]

While watching a demo of Primo at the EMA conference today I had a brainstorm.
Most academic libraries remove the dust jackets from books before putting them on the shelf. This means that adding images of book covers isn’t quite at valuable to us as it might be to a public library. So - [...]

I can’t believe I forgot to bring my camera to a conference!! I guess I’ll have to make up for it by taking double the pictures tomorrow. Along the lines of absentmindedness I also forgot my wallet today … not a good start to the week.

Can someone tell me how to report a spam blog to a registrar? I have one that keeps stealing my posts and crediting them to others - I want to report them, but I’m not sure what the steps are.

The welcome message for the EMA conference was presented by F. William Chickering (Dean of University Libraries at Rider University). Dean Chickering talked about the future. He peppered us with quotes from foolish people of the past and present who thought that things like phones, cars, computers, radios and libraries would not be [...]

I’m here! I almost missed the entrance and had to drive around campus a little - but I’m here. Most importantly, there is wireless - so as long as I find at least one outlet today I’ll be reporting semi-live from the EMA Users Group Conference today and tomorrow.
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Well, maybe not, but I do have another note to add. I was singing the praises of Google Presentation for a while … and I still think it’s pretty neat, but it may not be the answer for me.
I was working with my fellow presenters on a presentation using Google Presentation … but today [...]

The Daily News: This just in, a volunteer at the Crocker Art Museum Library was crushed to death by the AACR2 (Anglo-American Rules for Cataloguing 2002 edition).
Well, not quite, but that’s what I felt like. I am now volunteering at the Hansen Library at the Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento on Saturdays. I met [...]

TasteBook.comCreate cookbooks, search recipes, share recipes

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Flickr is going to add editing capabilities using Picnik in the next few months:
Currently, you can rotate photos on Flickr, but the editing stops there. When the new tools launch, users will be able to edit photos more extensively using the Picnik Flash based tools
[Via TechCrunch]

I am a cookbook junkie! Just search by LibraryThing library to see. Anyway, I just found TasteBook, a site that lets you make your own cookbook. My husband gets annoyed when I print out recipes and keep them all over the house So this sounded perfect! I started playing right away. [...]

I’m not sure if I’ll stick to using a desktop calendar (versus web), but I do like that I can import in and write to my Google Calendar via the new Sunbird release, so I want to give it a shot.
[via DownloadSquad]

John?s Eight Laws of Library Technology

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I know I haven’t spoken much about my new job, but now I have something big to announce. The Princeton Theological Seminary has signed with Mark Logic to assist in the development of our digital library! The big release was today at a conference at the seminary, but I was at a training [...]

I’m finally reading Everything in Miscellaneous - and it’s awesome. The irony is that I’m taking a two day subject cataloging class. While the instructor (who is awesome and full of energy) talks about how getting the most specific subject heading is our goal and having things in alphabetical order is good - [...]

Information for Social Change Journal (ISC)
Museum of Cataloging and Acquisitions ArtifactsThe following pages represent a variety of books and tools from the past that were used by librarians in their everyday practices.
RSS4Lib: Directory of Experimental Library ToolsThe following is an alphabetical list of library web pages that list experimental, beta, or trial web tools and [...]