I was asked to talk about open source, Koha, and Library Mashups at the TCLC spring meeting in PA today. But before I gave my talks, I got to listen to Nancy Magnuson give a keynote address on Transforming the Library. Nancy talked to us about the transformation of the Goucher Athenaeum in Baltimore. This [...]
DPubSDPubS (Digital Publishing System) is an open-source software system designed to enable the organization, presentation, and delivery of scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse More of my links
There is yet another change to Facebook – your profile items such as job history, education, and interests is now linked to (or can now be linked) to pages on Facebook. I logged into Facebook this morning and saw this: So I clicked the ‘Choose pages individually’ link so I could have complete control over [...]
Meet Zotero – the Next Generation Research ToolA series of 4 introductory videos. More of my links
Our closing keynote was Eric Lease Morgan – I’ve read a ton of his articles, but have never seen him in person. Eric started with a history of him. He has been ‘kinda sorta’ writing code since 1996 1976. While driving taxi after college, he discovered his first ‘itch.’ He wanted to know how much [...]
Jennifer Bielewski and Jenny Liberatore from Lyrasis gave the Each One Teach One talk. They started by telling us the most important thing is to tell your attendees what the outcomes of the workshop will be – what will they learn in this workshop? We were then introduced to the SMART Training Objectives: Specific Be [...]
SCLENDS is a consortium of libraries in South Carolina and their talk was next up on my agenda. While it was a panel, Rogan did most of the talking and started with some background info on South Carolina: 2008 population was 4,479,800, there are 46 counties and 2 public library consortium. In June of 2008 [...]
Jed Moffit, Bill Erikson and Matt Carlson were up during our lunch to talk to us about the developments that were coming up from KCLS. Jed says that we have to have something in the new developments that is better than ‘sucks less technology.’ He is hoping that these developments will be genuinely of value [...]
Bill Erickson started his Acquisitions roundup by showing us ‘Selection Lists’ – this is a concept I’m unfamiliar with. It’s basically a list of items you want to perform actions on. So you can create a list of items to order and then order from it – but you don’t have to – you can [...]
Bill Ptacek from the King County Library System (KCLS) was our keynote with his talked entitled “From Singing the Blues to the Birth of Cool.” KCLS serves 1.7 million people in the county where many large (many tech) companies live – Microsoft, Nintendo, Boeing, Amazon and Amgen. In addition to housing these major companies, King [...]
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