I’ll be teaching two new classes next month (new for me and for SJRLC):

Using Facebook to Connect with Customers:
Attend this hands-on workshop and learn how create a Facebook presence for your library and use that presence to effectively engage your customers.
Web 2.0 Synergy: Putting it All Together: This session will give you a solid [...]

If you’re in the area, be sure to sign up for my talk next week at CJRLC.
PRACTICALLY WEB 2.0: Practical Demos of Social Software Technology - August 27, CJRLC Lab - 10 AM-12 noon
Get more information here.
I hope to see you all there!!

If you’re in they Cherry Hill area next week you might want to come to my class:
August 13: Tech Talk: All Grown Up: Open Source for Libraries: “Open Source” - a term you may have heard thrown about at conferences and on mailing lists - but what does [...]

This year I get to present at the WyLA Annual Conference! I’m very excited because I’ve never been to Wyoming and because I get to talk on my two favorite topics.

The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & BlogsWyoming Library Association Conference, Casper, WY, October 2, 2008
Open Source for Libraries: All Grown [...]

Can you believe that I’m already scheduled for some of my fall talks? Well, I wanted to share a few of these with you since you can register already:

The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & BlogsWyoming Library Association Conference, Casper, WY, October 2, 2008
Open Source for Libraries: All Grown UpWyoming Library Association Conference, [...]

Apparently this program was left out of the schedule for ALA - make sure you add this to your calendar of events at ALA!!
ALCTS CRG Forum in Anaheim Focused on Careers for Public Librarians in Technical Services
Sunday, June 29, 8:00-9:30 a.m., Disney Paradise Pier Hotel, Pacific C/D
Want to get the scoop on the advantages and [...]

For the last presentation of my first SLA, I got to hear William Jones author of Keeping Found Things Found talk about Personal Information Management (PIM).
William decided to change the title of his talk - and made us all giggle “The world is at my doorstep … and the house is a mess: putting our [...]

This panel was very very insightful. The panelists were all recent grads of the University of Washington’s iSchool. They were Alex Berta, Rebecca Blakewood, Ann Glusker, Elizabeth Gould, and Beth Sanderson. Joe Janes and Nancy Gershenfeld professors at the iSchool gave us an intro.
University of Washington was the first school that decided [...]

While this talk was presented by Springer and had a Springer bias (which the speaker warned us about) it was very interesting and enlightening to hear a publisher speak about how they’re enabling 2.0 tools into their products.
Olaf Ernst, our speaker for this talk, mentioned right off that integrated econtent is king - [...]

The the Opening General Session at SLA Annual, we got the honor of watching Charlie Rose interview Vinton Cerf!!
Charlie started by thanking us, “You are the masters of getting good information … and to show you how stupid I am - I didn’t know you had an organization.” He talked about how people in [...]

So, I thought it sounded like a great idea - no bottled water, no handouts and several other changes to have the SLA Annual conference put a smaller nature killing footprint on Seattle and the world. I was wrong!! SLA did not think this through. I have not been able to get through [...]

If you weren’t able to make it to the conference, you can still see all the great talks!! Check out the videos from the conference at Archive.org.
Also all slides and videos are linked from the conference schedule.
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Wow! Time flies! It’s nearly time for SLA Annual in Seattle and that means tons of get togethers and social events. Make sure you don’t miss the Blogging Section Happy Hour:
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Wild Ginger, 1401 3rd Avenue (http://www.wildginger.net/)
I got a great recommendation for this place and they inform me that [...]

I will be doing 2 Tech Talks in South Jersey at the end of the month. If you’re in the area, sign up and come learn something new.
This two hour tech talk will explain the basic concepts of many web 2.0 tools and demonstrate how you can practically use them to manage information and [...]

Eleonora Dubicki and Jacqui DaCosta talked to us about how to keep students engaged while teaching about libraries. That said, I went because I wanted to learn teaching techniques that can be used in any instruction - and I did!!
Active Learning
We started with the rules for library bingo. This is the first way [...]

Tomorrow I head to the NJLA (New Jersey Library Association) Annual Conference. I’ll be presenting all afternoon on 2.0 topics. Should be fun! I wanted to go for the whole conference, but sometimes life takes priority over conferences.
If you’re there, look for me!!
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Computers in Libraries will be returning to the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA from March 30 - April 1, 2009. Stay tuned for more information later on this year!
Well, I have two things to say. #1 - Bah to the Hyatt it’s a terrible place for so many of us! [...]

The videos from the Code4Lib 2008 conference are being added to Google video. Some are also on the Internet Archive site. Keep an eye as new ones appear.
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Amy De Groff, Head of Library Technology Services talked to us about using open source at the Howard County Public Library. Amy started by telling us that she was not going to convince us that open source is a good thing - the other speakers had already done enough of that.
Amy’s library will [...]

Kyrille Goldbeck and Dr. Godmar Back of Virginia Tech talked to us about LibX. I (probably like you) have heard of this tool before - but I had no idea how cool and powerful it was!!
LibX was originally developed as a way for patrons to take the library with them on the web as [...]

Glen Horton talked to us about how libraries can give back to open source.
Libraries and open source are fundamentally related - both …

believe that information should be freely accessible to everyone

we like to give away stuff

we benefits from generosity of others (part Glen is going to talk about)

are about communities

make the world a better place

One [...]

I love listening to Marshall Breeding present - it always makes me feel better to know that someone can talk faster than me Marshall started his talk by showing us the lib-web-cats advanced search which allows you to search for libraries running specific systems. He did remind us to keep in mind that [...]

Karen Schneider moderated this very interesting two part session on WoePac to WowPac - a look at OPACs as we know them and would like them to be. As a librarian who has often torn her hair out over the sad state - “or should I say sucky state” of our OPACs she’s the perfect [...]

This year at CIL I got to attend my first ever pre-conference. My session was taught by Helene Blowers and Michael Porter and covered the new paradigm of marketing in libraries.
Helene started the afternoon off by talking about the title of the presentation “From Avatars to Advocacy: Innovation Through Un-Marketing.” The term “Un-marketing” [...]

First off Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone are like a stand up comedy act with really neat tools to make our lives easier! I just love attending their presentations each year. So let’s get to the meat (excuse my lack of capitalization):
Firefox Tools:

safecache - protects your privacy - defends against cache-based tracking techniques

foxmarks - [...]