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 [...]

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 everyone raised [...]

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 [...]

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.
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This type of frustration I heard echoed in almost every conversation (but thankfully [...]

Tennant and Spalding on the Future of the Catalog
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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 [...]

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 at [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve said it a hundred times and I’ve talked about others who have said it - but this topic bears repeating - over and over until it’s stuck in everyone’s head!! The way we design web pages needs to change - it’s changing all around us and it’s time to learn from others and [...]

I realized at this conference that as a blogger I, and other blogger/presenters, assume that people have the same knowledge as us. I frequently heard blogger/presenters say “you’ve probably heard about …” or “you’ve seen the …. video already”, but the fact of the matter is that we’re really still a small minority. [...]

How cool is this? Derik Badman is sketching the CIL conference and he did one of me!!

Nicole Engard before her presentation
Originally uploaded by madinkbeard.

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So, Meredith Farkas started off her talk by telling the audience that I bite!! Yep, that’s right - I’m a biter I’m just kidding, Meredith (and me later today) was in the worst room for presenting. There are 2 pillars in the middle of the room that make it nearly impossible [...]

I am done! My presentation went well as you an tell by this twitterer:

If you want the slides they are on my Publications & Presentations page - and here. I’ll try to do a screencast when I get back home for those who couldn’t see the screen or weren’t able to attend.
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Next I heard David Lee King talk about Library 2.0 “Setting up the New Stuff”. While I obviously have a feel for some of the basic technologies that David went over, I’m still glad that I attended this event so that I can share what I learned with you all.
David broke the talk into [...]

I got to hear Lee Rainie give the keynote at CIL last year - I have to say I’m glad that he gave a different talk this year - I was a bit worried that it wasn’t going to be a new keynote.
Lee talked about Web 2.0 and what it means to libraries. He [...]

I know you’re looking for my summaries - they’re coming. Right now I’m just writing to say that I’m having a very hard time resisting the urge to join up with all of the other twitterers - everyone around me has it open!!! I may give in to peer pressure soon - bad [...]

I’m here - it’s raining - nothing much else to report. The action all starts tomorrow!
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I leave today! It’s horrible out here - it’s pouring and windy - should be a fun drive.
See you all there!!

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I have finished the first draft of my presentation for CIL. This year I’ve been lax. I usually have this stuff done months in advance - but things have been crazy!! If you’re going, make sure that you add your schedule to the wiki so people know where to find you. [...]

I have created an OPML for the upcoming conference if you’re interested in subscribing. You can find it at: http://www.web2learning.net/cil2007/cil2007.opml.
Enjoy!
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WOW! It’s right around the corner. Are you going? Have you posted your info on the CIL Wiki? Make sure you do, it’s a great way to meet new people. If you’re curious you can see my info & schedule here.
This will be my first year presenting at CIL. My presentation will be [...]

I just put together my preliminary schedule for CIL - and there is just too much to choose from! I’m open for a few meals, feel free to email me if you’d like to meet up.
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The wiki is up and running for Computers in Libraries. Not only will I be attending this year but I will be presenting on using Blogs & Wikis for project management within your library. This is another presentation about our new intranet - except instead of talking about design and programming I’ll be [...]