I know that the link has been up for a while – but it looks much more populated now. If you missed CIL and want to see some of the presentations take a look on the InfoToday site. When you find a presentation you like you can do a blog post search to find more [...]
At CIL David Lee King gave an amazing talk on Guiding Information Pros Through Change. I mentioned in my summary that David started out with a few questions for the audience: First, I asked if attendees had learned something innovative or new at the conference that they'd like to take back to their libraries. Almost [...]
A little over a month ago I posted that I saw no purpose to Twitter … I was wrong. I don’t really have a day to day need to post what I’m doing, but while at Computers in Libraries I signed up because everyone around me was communicating and I felt left out. David Lee [...]
At CIL I promised that I’d create a screencast for those who couldn’t see the screen – and those who weren’t there at all. I have just created my first 3 screencasts!! There is no sound and nothing fancy, but you can at least see what I did in my presentation. This is my first [...]
Helene Blowers has a great post summing up what she learned at CIL – and it’s not pretty. My CIL experience this year was bittersweet and I find myself personally leaving with a lot more unanswered questions and frustrations than new ideas and inspirations. … This type of frustration I heard echoed in almost every [...]
Tennant and Spalding on the Future of the Catalog Originally uploaded by madinkbeard. Tim Spalding of LibraryThing started out with his talk entitled “The Fun OPAC”. Tim quotes Casey Bisson who said that the OPAC was broken in three ways: usability, findability and remixability. Tim argues that that is not enough – he also thinks [...]
Over at The Compass there is a post about blogging a conference: I found that knowing my notes/blog would be publicly accessible motivated me and helped me focus more critically than if I had been a passive listener, recording notes privately on a notepad. This prompts another hypothesis. Blogging was promoted as a teaching tool [...]
Rob Cagna from University of Pennsylvania came to talk to us about PennTags. The last time I saw this it was a bit rough – it has grown up a lot since it’s birth!! PennTags is like del.icio.us for members of the Penn community. They can save pages from anywhere on the web, from the [...]
David Lee King gave an amazing talk on handling change within our libraries. He started by asking a few questions and reading a few quotes. The first question was how many of us have had a hard time changing things in our libraries – lots of hands were raised. Then what kinds of change are [...]
Before even starting her talk, Helene Blowers posted her presentation information on her blog – check it out here. Helene walked about the room using her new presentation remote (the same one I have) and talked to us about core competencies and learning 2.0 at her library. She told us a story of librarians in [...]
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