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.

I want to preface this by saying I will probably never ever need to use this tool - but it was really awesome sounding so I wanted to share it with you all!
Hilary Spencer from Nature came to talk at the NFAIS meeting about Nature Precedings and Nature Network.
Nature Precedings allows scientists to post pre [...]

The next session I attended at the NFAIS meeting was on blogging. It started with Steven Bell who talked about the four different types of blogs he writes for and how he managed blogging for four blogs.
The newest of Steven’s blogs is called Designing Better Libraries. It was started as a [...]

Yesterday I attended and presented at a meeting for NFAIS members. The first presentation was done by Michael Mahoney of Nerac. Michael talked about the current status of blogs, wikis and podcasts at his organization. While most of what he went over was nothing new to me, I did get some good [...]

I will be presenting at PALINET for a NFAIS event on June 29th entitled “User-Generated Content and Social Media”:
1:15pm - 2:45pm: The Collaborative Information Workplace

Nicole Engard, Metadata Librarian, Princeton Theological Seminary

Barbara Brynko, Editor-in-Chief, Information Today, Inc.

This session will focus upon the effective use of collaborative communication tools within the workplace. The speakers [...]

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
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 [...]

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 [...]