CIL Presentations are being posted all over the place. Be sure to check the official ITI page for a full listing.
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Paul Miller has posted a follow up to his presentation at CIL last week. He commented on our (the biblioblogosphere’s) doubts that vendors will ever live up to the dream he presented to us.
Change is hard. Change can hurt. Given where we are now, and where the wider world is going, change is essential. We [...]

I was reflecting on what I learned last week at the conference and I thought I should share with you all one way that we’re trying to create Tech Savvy Staff - and it’s free!
We (meaning I) look for free webinars offered through places like OPAL, SirsiDynix and KM World and invite the entire staff [...]

This is the first year I was a blogger at CIL - it’s my first year as a blogger at all - what’s the point? Well I was reading everyone else’s summaries (now that mine are finished) and I saw this bullet point from Amanda Etches-Johnson and I just had to share it here [...]

A lot of people have been adding their CIL pictures to Flickr - but only one has sketches from the sessions! Derik Badman sketched what he saw while in sessions and around the conference.
Very cool! And fun if you were in the same session because you know exactly what part he was [...]

I mentioned that Darlene Fichter had great props for the DigiTech Forum - well Nancy Garmen from Info Today got a great picture. Make sure you check it out.
PS. I’m catching up on my reading so I’ll probably have more CIL summaries to share with you from the other bloggers.
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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

On Thursday afternoon we played hooky and went to the Library of Congress - I was so excited - I thought I was going to see walls and walls of books!! There were no books!! I kept saying - “Where are the books”? Apparently they hide the books behind closed doors and [...]

Janie Hassard Hermann covered the training patrons part of this presentation. The official title was “Training for Staff & Patrons in Public Libraries” - I figured that I could still use this information in a special library setting - and I guess you could in some, but probably not in ours.
Janie set up a [...]

I am home and catching up on all of my posting. First, I promised to post the URLS from the Planning for a Mobile Future keynote.
Sites that offer mobile verions (by detecting what you’re using):

TV Guide
NWS
Hoovers
PubMed

Tools to shrink a page to fit on a mobile device (disclaimer - you may lose important info by [...]

Megan Fox gave a very interesting (especially for me - who is sorely behind on mobile devices) keynote presentation yesterday morning.
At our library the Blackberry is the mobile device of choice - but according to Megan Smart phone are being used more than PDAs - which make sense because who wants to carry around [...]

Hey look what I found - a list of CIL Blogger. Make sure to read what others are saying about the conference - keep in mind we’ve been having trouble with the limited access we have to wireless - so posts are probably going up late or not at all.
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That was the theme of the DigiTech (Dead Tech) Forum last night.
This is the first year that I have actually stayed awake to attend this session and it was worth it!!
I didn’t bring paper or a pen with me so I didn’t get to take notes until Gwen decided to share [...]

Yesterday I did something new for me - I ate with strangers Well they’re not strangers anymore. Usually I come to these conferences and eat my meals alone and go to bed early. I ate lunch with 9 other people, most of whose blogs I have read over the last year. [...]

Well this session did not go as well as it coudld have - from no fault of the presenters mind you!
I got in a little bit late to this session only to find that there were some technology difficulties! When this happened in another session someone said the conference is called “computers in libraries” [...]

I’ll admit this session was not what I was expecting! I went in thinking they’d point me to a bunch of tools for designing a usable website (something we don’t really have - well we do - but if you run it through Bobby we’d fail miserably - and our staff doesn’t even know [...]

I snuck out of the Web-Based Experience Planning to attned a cybertour on writing for info pros. Rachel Singer Gordon an author and an editor for Information Today Inc.
Rachel told us that if you have a topic you can talk about for hours and hours - you can write a book - of [...]

David King (who I got to have lunch with today - pictures to come later) presented this session.
He started with a graphic from Creating Passionate Users about the “I Rule” theory - and by “I” it means the user.
He started with the The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, [...]