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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Cool Tools for Webmasters

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 Internet [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Best of ResourceShelf

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 just summarize [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Why am I behind?

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. This [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Keynote Day 3

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 like [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 4 Comments

Library of Congress

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 in other buildings [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Tech Savvy Staff and Patrons

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 [...]

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25 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Mobile Future (cont.)

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 [...]

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24 March 2006 ~ 4 Comments

Planning for the handheld mobile future

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 [...]

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23 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Other CIL Bloggers

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. Technorati Tags: cil06, cil2006

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23 March 2006 ~ 3 Comments

That’s Sooooo 1.0!

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 (being her [...]

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