I didn’t think I’d get to attend this year, but I will be there with bells on! I am registered, hotel booked and have already volunteered to moderate the Open Source track on Wednesday. You can see my schedule as it develops on the CIL 2008 Wiki. Can’t wait to see all [...]

I only went to the exhibit hall for 1 hour on Saturday - that’s about all the time I could spare - but Todd had an interesting observation from him stay at Midwinter that makes me smile:
After walking around the exhibits this afternoon, I noticed the the crowd around the LibLime (open source library software [...]

I’m registered - are you?? Check out the program and details at the official site.
The conference will be held at the Embassy Suites Downtown Portland. A single suite is $150 per night, which includes full breakfast and free happy-hour. To make reservations, please call the hotel directly at (503)279-9000 and let the guest representative [...]

Join NFAIS for its: 50th Anniversary (1958 – 2008)
The cut-off date for the early bird conference registration fee is only days away - Tuesday, January 8, 2008!! The conference, scheduled for February 24-26, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA, is for all information providers – publishers, librarians and educators - who want to learn [...]

Last year I was lucky enough to win a scholarship to attend the Code4Lib conference. Now it’s your turn to give it a whirl. The announcements are up at the Code4Lib site. There are 2 scholarships - one for minorities and one for women.
Good luck to all! It’s a great conference!

Don’t miss this free opportunity hosted by PALINET:
Koha Camp is a unique first opportunity for systems librarians, library software developers and designers to come together for an open source experience with Koha Library Integrated System.
This one-day workshop, limited to 25 participants, is a place where teams of software developers and librarians will join to explore [...]

Last night I attended a talk at Princeton title Stop Making Sense: On Collecting, Sorting and Presenting Data presented by Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, San Francisco. I have to start by saying that the artsy parts lost me! Frieling would show and art piece and say - of course [...]

We’ve all heard the complaints about presentations based on PowerPoint (or other similar slide show product) - but my question is - what is the alternative? I like to start my presentations with some slides - mostly for reference and note-taking (if printed), but then move on to a live demo of sorts. [...]

Looks like SlideShare is the tool of choice for the IL presenters this year. You can find many presentations from IL07 already online on SlideShare.
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Not being able to attend IL this year, I missed Frank and Darlene’s Cool Tools presentation, but it looks like Cindy did a good write up with links included! Or you can view the slides online.

Presented by Ed Corrado of TCNJ - here are the 10 (or so) hacks for the Voyager OPAC (WebVoyage):

New Book List by Michael Doran:

Shelflister by Michael Doran

Spell Checker but not checking against your db - so you can get did you means that aren’t actually in your catalog. (ex at University of Waikato)

Search Voyager [...]

I presented with Sarah Theimer from Syracuse this morning. Sarah talked about how they use MediaWiki for keeping track of procedures. She started by asking “Will a wiki work?” and her answer was “Sort of” - my answer is YES!
It was fun to listen to Sarah because a lot of [...]

This list of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007, University of Edinburgh sounds interesting:
1. Keynote Presentation [pdf], Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University
Rick asks an interesting question: “Could it be that we are well enough funded to be comfortable with our traditional roles?”

2. [...]

I got to hear an update about the new releases of Voyager at today’s conference. One of my biggest complaints about our current system is that it’s ugly - so very very ugly! Now, I have no experience trying to edit the interface of a Voyager system (that’s not my job anymore), but [...]

The welcome message for the EMA conference was presented by F. William Chickering (Dean of University Libraries at Rider University). Dean Chickering talked about the future. He peppered us with quotes from foolish people of the past and present who thought that things like phones, cars, computers, radios and libraries would not be [...]

I’m here! I almost missed the entrance and had to drive around campus a little - but I’m here. Most importantly, there is wireless - so as long as I find at least one outlet today I’ll be reporting semi-live from the EMA Users Group Conference today and tomorrow.
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Here is my presentation from today’s roundtable meeting:

Library 2.0 & the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, October 22, 2007

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I was not at the LITA conference, but at least I can hear the keynotes - actually we all can!

The Future is not out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0, and Emerging Trends, by David Lee King (Q&A and slides)
In Our Cages With Golden Bars, by Jeremy Frumkin

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I have a lot in the works during the next two months so I thought I’d share the list with you all:

The 2.0 Office: More Than Just Wikis & Blogs SLA Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, September 18, 2007
Office Communication the 2.0 WayLawrenceville, NJ, September 20, 2007
Web 2.0 and the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, [...]

Everyone at the conference will be editing the program to include their summaries (and make edits to my summaries). Make sure you check out what people are writing if you weren’t able to attend.
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- Two views on security in software - One is you hope no one finds the problem the other is that you put it out there and hope someone fixes it.
- FreeCiv - Free civ-like game
- Howard County Library System is all open source as well as 2-3 libraries in NZ
- How does staff get [...]

Moderated by Kate Sheehan and Abby Blachly
- 4 Libraries worldwide have LibraryThing for Libraries - still a new service.
- Does everyone know what LibraryThing is? — a social cataloging website - connects you to other users based on what books you share. The only info that LT keeps is usernames and password - so [...]

Ben Armentor - Columbia Computer Programmer was our moderator.
- A lot of people here for the intellectual discussion - a nice balance of catalogers and those here for general interest.
- Ben’s summary of Weinberger’s position: Weinberger’s position is that you can describe the organization of things in collections (the long view). There is an [...]

I’m at Library Camp NYC and I’ve attended some interesting sessions. I know that I usually write nice summaries for conferences - but I’m sure you’ll all forgive me in my exhausted state. Summaries are to follow. Pictures are here.
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My presentation from the NFAIS meeting yesterday is now available for download.

The Collaborative Information Workspace [slides, blog screencast, wiki screencast, to-do list screencast]
NFAIS - User-Generated Content and Social Media, Philadelphia, PA, June 29, 2007.