I’m in the Colorado Springs airport waiting to head out to Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, by way of Dallas. I’ll be speaking at the NITLE Managing Digital Image Collections meeting. I’m looking forward to seeing a few folks I know from previous liberal-arts-college-type meetings, and getting to know some new folks, too.

I’ll be speaking a bit about the IDEAS project, specifically the collaborative process that brought librarians, academic technologists, and faculty from four liberal arts colleges together to create an image database devoted to Asian Studies.

My main presentation, though, is on what creators and curators of digital image collections can learn from flickr. I have a full PowerPoint presentation worked up for that, which is unusual for me. I may even think about adding an audio track and posting the whole presentation to the web (the slides aren’t much use without what I plan to say about them). We’ll see.

I hope all of you who are headed to Monterey have fun without me. I will be keeping up with all things Internet Librarian by way of Nicole Engard’s nifty IL2006 OPML file; thanks for saving me the trouble, Nicole!