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Tags, not tracks

Mon 31 Oct 2005, 11:33 pm

Erica Reynolds thinks that letting attendees tag the Internet Librarian 2006 program would be better than traditional tracks, and I agree.

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Some new (to me) blogs and the death of the blogroll

Sun 30 Oct 2005, 3:20 pm

A list of links to blogs from Internet Librarian bloggers I met in Monterey, plus thoughts on why the blogroll is losing ground.

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Readers are forbidden to MUTILATE

Thu 27 Oct 2005, 10:04 pm

Scans of some old library book labels from the Tutt Library periodicals collection.

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Goodbye Internet Librarian 2005

Thu 27 Oct 2005, 12:01 am

Internet Librarian 2005 kicked my ass, mostly in good ways. And I am not, wish as I might, Libraryman.

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Internet Librarian Keynote: Google: Catalyst for Digitization?

Wed 26 Oct 2005, 1:18 pm

This was an entertaining session, set up as a confrontation, but really Roy Tennant and Richard Wiggins were, I believe, presenting different facets and perspectives on similar goals and desires. Wiggins was looking more at the possibilities and promise, with Tennant reminding us of the problems and pitfalls still surrounding Google’s digitization efforts. Both are great speakers, and Adam Smith from Google was again showing goodwill and a good sense of humor. Click through for the play-by-play.

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Internet Librarian: Preparing for Electronic Resources Management

Wed 26 Oct 2005, 12:17 pm

Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh More and more E-content, more and more E-only with no paper to fall back on. The ERM marketplace (in broad terms) is a very young marketplace. Many commercial products are less than a year old. What do you want? Define your problem and your universe (just databases? databases and E-journals? [...]

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Internet Librarian: Google-brary and Tomorrow’s Megalibrary

Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:58 am

Stephen Abram called this “the Internet Librarian Tuesday night rave,” and we did seem to teeter on the edge a bit, boys and girls (though Steven Cohen had the light show earlier today). This session had a bit of everything: visions of smaller libraries withering in the white heat of Google Print; librarians hissing at [...]

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Internet Librarian: Blogging @ the Academic Library

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 4:12 pm

Susan Herzog has already created a fantastically detailed group of blogs her her talk, Blogging @ the University, so I think I’ll just sit back and watch.

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Internet Librarian; Marketing the Weblog

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 3:52 pm

Jill Stover of Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book presented on how to adopt a marketing mindset, from the moment you start conceiving of a blog until after it goes live. She had a lot of good information and links; I’m sorry that I didn’t get her link at the end for her slides. I’ll post [...]

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Internet Librarian: Some random after-lunch notes

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:49 pm

Had a good, inexpensive, enormous sandwich from Troia’s Market, up the hill on Del Monte Ave. from the convention center. Monterey must be penny-crushing machine capital of the frikkin’ Western Hemisphere. Just sayin’. Why would the Tarot/wicca (I almost wrote “wiki”) shop across the street from the Marriott have a sign saying “call ahead for [...]

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Internet Librarian: Library Blogs–Ethics and Guidelines

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:35 pm

Karen Schneider of Librarian’s Internet Index and Free Range Librarian Again, K.G. Schneider has already posted to her blog about this talk, and links to her PPT slides there. So I’ll just hit a few points from her very good talk here. Her talk focused on five major areas: Be transparent Cite source Get it [...]

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Internet Librarian: What’s Hot and New in RSS, Blogs, and Wikis

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 12:22 pm

Well there is not much point in me taking bullet-point notes on this, since Steven M. Cohen has posted his notes at http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/BlogsWikis. I’ll stick to stuff that is new and exciting to me. He put up the URLs for the open IL wiki and open IL blog The “news” in “Google News” or “Yahoo! [...]

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Internet Librarian Keynote: Social Computing & the Info Pro

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 11:30 am

A very good talk by Liz Lawley on social computing opened the second day of Internet Librarian today. I’m going to try and be more selective with my notes today, and hit more highlights than a full play-by-play. Click though to read my notes on this keynote. Technorati tags: il05, presentation, social_software

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Flickr photos for IL05

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:17 am

Usabilty of reception sandwiches == poor Originally uploaded by Andrea Mercado. There are a fair number of photos on Flickr tagged IL05 or IL2005. My favorite so far is this usability study of the sandwiches at the vendor reception by Andrea Mercado, who kindly posts this photo with a Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike” license so I [...]

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Internet Librarian: Web Wizards’ Cool Tools

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 1:52 am

Last presentation of the day (whew!). A nice overview of cool tools. Click through for my notes. As before, my comments in [square brackets]. Technorati tags: il05, presentation, tools, web

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Internet Librarian: Social Software and Libraries

Mon 24 Oct 2005, 6:17 pm

I was very happy to see Jenny Levine and Jessamyn West in person, as I have read their blogs, The Shifted Librarian and librarian.net for a long time. Their presentation was quite fun to watch, though I was already familiar with most of what they discussed. I turned on iChat and Michael Stevens of Tame [...]

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Internet Librarian: Federated Search Engines and Subject Pages

Mon 24 Oct 2005, 5:13 pm

I confess that I didn’t pay as close attention to this session as I might have, as both authors wrote very good articles on these subjects in the October 2005 issue of Computers in Libraries, which is free in bins here at the conference. The talk, however was quite good, and reminded me of many [...]

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Internet Librarian: Users Driving Web Site Changes

Mon 24 Oct 2005, 4:38 pm

As I noted earlier, there is no way for me to continue to try and almost transcribe each talk. So, in the time-honored tradition of a student who takes pages and pages of notes at the start of the term, and ends up with a few words by finals, expect the posts from now on [...]

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Internet Librarian: Library Terms That Users Can Understand:

Mon 24 Oct 2005, 3:10 pm

John Kupersmith presented on his clearinghouse of usability test data related to how users perceive terminology on library web pages. Click through to read my notes on his talk. Technorati tags: il05, presentation, library, usability

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Internet Librarian Opening Keynote: “Shifting Worlds”

Mon 24 Oct 2005, 2:38 pm

[OK, in retrospect, it is obvious to me that I won't be able to keep up this level of detail over the next two and a half days. Also, the wireless coverage here is spotty (at best), which makes it difficult to add links, check facts, etc. If it's in square brackets, like this paragraph, [...]

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Guess where I’m posting from?

Sun 23 Oct 2005, 2:51 pm

The airport! Sorry; I was flashing back to when phones on airplanes were a novelty and every conversation from them began with “guess where I’m calling from?” Anyway, off to Internet Librarian 2005 in Monterey by way of San Francisco. Earlier today, I saw that Andrea Mercado of Library Techtonics has put up an Internet [...]

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Great "reference" transaction on Ask MetaFilter

Fri 21 Oct 2005, 8:45 pm

On Ask Metafilter, “yankeefog” is looking for information from a 1938 Vienna phone book so he can see where his grandfather lived before fleeing the Nazis. Within half an hour, “arco,” a librarian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library replies, promising to check into it. Within 24 hours, the librarian has found not [...]

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About me

Fri 21 Oct 2005, 2:07 pm

Since having an author bio is number one on Jakob Nielsen’s weblog usability list, it seemed like a good time to post my scintillating biography.

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Ready to blog Internet Librarian 2005

Wed 19 Oct 2005, 2:50 pm

I’ll be there, trying to type and listen at the same time, along with about 15 others; I may not be unique, but I am certainly in good company, even if I am at the bottom of the list (hey!). According to Nancy Garman of Information Today, we will have a “press room” at our [...]

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Fall photos on Flickr

Wed 19 Oct 2005, 7:20 am

It was such a beautiful fall day yesterday that I took the library’s camera out for a stroll and took some shots of the library and campus with the fall foliage. This one is probably my favorite; there are a few more at the library’s Flickr account. I set up that Flickr account a few [...]

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"Getting Things Done" Lunch & Learn session

Tue 18 Oct 2005, 4:09 pm

Last week I did a Lunch & Learn session on Getting Things Done, in which I gave a quick course on David Allen’s system for, erm, getting things done. I was happy with the turnout. I think a lot of people came because no matter how successful we are, we all feel like we could [...]

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The only thing constant is change

Thu 13 Oct 2005, 3:32 pm

There is a post titled Library 2.0, Beta over at Library Crunch that has a few lines that I like very much: Constant change is replacing the older model of upgrade cycles. Let me repeat that, constant change is replacing the older model of upgrade cycles. Take a look at such sites as Flickr and [...]

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