Wed 15 Jul 2009, 12:39 pm
I threw a copy at Neil Gaiman (he didn’t get it), but the one I handed to Erik of the Shanachies wound up with me doing a short interview for their video.
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Tue 7 Jul 2009, 7:18 pm
Getting the zine and myself ready for ALA Annual.
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Tue 7 Jul 2009, 10:43 am
The introduction to the LSW zine, Codslap!
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Sun 29 Mar 2009, 1:18 pm
I don’t think I have said anything about it here yet, but there’s no place like the airport to do a quick blog post about an upcoming conference. I’m on my way to Computers in Libraries 2009 in Crystal City (let’s pretend it’s DC, OK?). I’ll be presenting Tuesday afternoon on library camps and unconferences [...]
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Tue 27 Jan 2009, 9:17 am
LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel at ALA Midwinter streams live on the Internets and I watch a little and eat some pancakes.
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Thu 15 Jan 2009, 9:59 am
A flurry of comments on a month-old post had me thinking about the economics of library camps again.
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Sun 7 Dec 2008, 9:06 pm
LITACamp has been announced for May 7 & 8 in Dublin, OH. Would you pay $150 – $290 to attend?
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Mon 3 Nov 2008, 9:00 am
The Maker Faires (from Make Magazine) look like inspired events. Could we use them as inspiration for a DIY library “conference?”
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Sun 2 Nov 2008, 10:36 am
Another event that sounds great that I couldn’t attend: Alternative Press Expo 2008.
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Sat 1 Nov 2008, 10:02 pm
Noting the upcoming Library Camp Nebraska and the Radical Reference ACRL pre/un-conference. I’d go if I could.
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Sun 26 Oct 2008, 8:18 pm
A wrap-up of my experience at Internet Librarian 2008, and some thoughts about a few posts regarding giving presentations.
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Sat 11 Oct 2008, 11:39 pm
Some impressions and memories from Library Camp of the West, 2008.
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Fri 5 Sep 2008, 8:02 pm
Cartoonist John Porcellino donated his work on a wonderful logo for Library Camp of the West 2008.
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Thu 17 Jul 2008, 11:43 pm
Can free unconferences make it even harder to get an institution to pay to send you to a traditional conference?
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Sun 13 Jul 2008, 2:58 pm
Would an online conference aimed at librarians who want to go from social-software user to coder really work?
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Thu 10 Jul 2008, 8:00 am
Library Camp of the West, an unconference, will be held on the University of Denver campus on October 10, 2008. Details, as we all make them up, are here: http://librarycampwest.pbwiki.com/
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Mon 30 Jun 2008, 5:44 pm
It looks like LSW is having fun at ALA. Photographic evidence provided.
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Thu 24 Apr 2008, 11:23 am
Why it is OK to have fun at a conference, and thoughts about what we are really “bringing back” with us.
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Thu 27 Mar 2008, 10:26 pm
I’m looking forward to using Twitter to keep up with Computers in Libraries 2008 as it happens. Let’s talk about hashtags, the CIL2008 twitter account, and what private Twitter accounts mean to tracking the conference.
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Sat 15 Mar 2008, 5:49 pm
I set up a public Netvibes page to keep track of feeds related to Computers in Libraries 2008.
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Tue 30 Oct 2007, 2:27 pm
I’m not at Internet Librarian. And I’m not bitter.
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Fri 8 Jun 2007, 3:37 pm
The BIGWIG Social Software Showcase at ALA this year looks like a winner. Won’t it be cool when people use this stuff more for non-tech purposes?
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Mon 4 Jun 2007, 3:00 pm
Fellow Library Society of the World denizens know that I spent much of last week fussing over a presentation to the Colorado Academic Library Summit. I enlisted their/your help a few times, and am grateful for the help. I hope that I was the first person to thank the LSW in a conference handout!
The talk, [...]
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Thu 24 May 2007, 10:31 pm
“How we done it good” is all well and good, but I want to hear how you done it bad.
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Thu 19 Apr 2007, 11:20 am
About my participation at the CLiC Spring Workshop in Pueblo, including meeting Five Weeks to a Social Library participant, Karen Pardue.
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Mon 16 Apr 2007, 7:04 pm
Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina Pacifici, Aaron Schmidt
Originally uploaded by madinkbeard.
Another year, missing another Computers in Libraries conference. As with other recent years, though, there is no real reason to feel too left out.
As in years past, Nicole Engard has wrapped up a CiL OPML file that you can [...]
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Wed 4 Apr 2007, 12:50 pm
In which I compare state library association presentations to participating in the high school play. As we used to say, “don’t worry about it! It’ll be dark, they’ll be drunk!” I also link to some other folks who are more…on topic.
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Tue 30 Jan 2007, 3:24 pm
I don’t know how many Colorado academic librarians read this blog, but I wanted to take a moment to point out Colorado Academic Library Summit 2007, a conference planned for May 31 and June 1, 2007 at the Sheraton Denver West.
The theme is Changing Cultures: Collaborations, Social Networking and New Technologies. Here is what they [...]
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Mon 13 Nov 2006, 10:40 am
Some thoughts on the Colorado Association of Libraries conference.
I think that Emilie’s and my presentation, Keeping Current, went quite well. We were in a large, theatre-style room, and it was pretty much filled (I think that means around 150 people). Michael Sauers blogged it and took some photos. We got a few nice comments on [...]
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Fri 10 Nov 2006, 11:16 am
Like Michael Sauers, I’m in Denver (or Aurora, actually) at the Colorado Association of Libraries 2006 Conference.
Today, I’m presenting with Emilie Satterwhite, young adult services librarian at Mesa County Libraries in Grand Junction, and sometime commenter on this very blog. Our presentation is entitled “Keeping Current with Technology: How popular trends in technology can (and [...]
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Tue 19 Sep 2006, 10:38 pm
Last year’s Internet Librarian conference was a great combination of a kick-in-the-pants good time and a valuable professional development experience (see my posts tagged il2005 for details), so I had assumed that I would head for Monterey again this fall.
But a few months back, just as I was starting to feel bad about not even [...]
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Mon 26 Jun 2006, 11:59 pm
This year I continued my fairly recent tradition of skipping ALA. I don’t regret missing the conference, but I do regret having to pass up several invitations to get together over a beer (or a hurricane; do they still serve those in New Orleans? I’d expect the name seems less cute since Katrina) with old [...]
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Fri 19 May 2006, 12:02 pm
A few notes on catalogs before attending the Innovative Users Group meeting in Denver.
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Wed 10 May 2006, 12:21 am
I have been thinking about online conferences lately, prompted by my recent participation in HigherEd BlogCon (HEBC) and Steven Bell’s post Sure I’d Attend The ACRL Virtual Conference – If It Was Free at ACRLog (the sentiment expressed in the post title isn’t Steven’s: it is what he is responding to). I left a comment [...]
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Thu 27 Apr 2006, 7:38 am
HigherEd BlogCon didn’t end with the end of the library track. This week has been the websites & web development track, and my presentation, Know Enough to Be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS, is up today.
A few thoughts:
The screencasts I made with Camtasia turned out to be much larger (i.e., more [...]
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Mon 3 Apr 2006, 4:43 pm
HigherEd BlogCon starts today, with the teaching track running this week. (That means I have two weeks before I have to have my piece for the Websites and Web Development track completed. Whew!).
This is a free conference: free as beer, free as in Creative Commons-licensed presentations. What is not to like about that?
The other tracks [...]
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Thu 23 Mar 2006, 5:04 pm
Walt Crawford said it: it feels like all the cool kids are at Computers in Libraries (well, some of the cool kids are at PLA, but that’s not my scene, man). Even Flickr knows that “cil2006″ is hot–no kidding, check out the pics.
Just a reminder that you can stalk the cool kids from afar with [...]
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Sat 18 Feb 2006, 10:17 am
Update 2006-02-26: added Information Today blog to list below and to OPML file
I’m not attending Computers in Libraries which is being held March 22-24 in Washington D.C. But I do want to keep up with what is going on there. So I have set up a temporary folder in my RSS reader with the following [...]
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Mon 30 Jan 2006, 10:46 pm
OK, I squeaked my proposal for HigherEd BlogCon in at about the eleventh hour. I had a lousy week last week (though not as lousy as my son Luke, who had pneumonia (he’s fine)), so this got put way on the back burner.
If you care to see it, I ended up submitting it to [...]
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Wed 18 Jan 2006, 6:50 pm
Just a quick reminder to the blognoscenti that the HigherEd BlogCon call for presenters is still open, and will be through the end of the month. Check out the guidelines for submitting a proposal.
According to the call for presenters, “Higher Ed BlogCon 2006 will focus on the use of blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, vblogs, and [...]
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Wed 21 Dec 2005, 1:03 pm
If you read enough library blogs to be aware of See Also, then you have probably seen the recent flurry of activity around Jenny Levine’s recent posts Why I’m Not Joining ALA Right Now After All and her follow-up Continuing Conference Conversations. The main thrust of her post is that it is absurd that she [...]
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Sat 12 Nov 2005, 11:28 am
The Audience at "Teach an Old Blog New Tricks"
Here is the excited audience of Colorado Librarians listening to me!
Edited to add: I feel like the session went quite well; we had somewhere around 50 or 60 people there. None of my fears about internet or projector problems came true. [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 10:56 pm
Shelley Walchak of CLiC gave a great intro to blogs and blogging to an SRO crowd, and she kept right on going with the offline version of her presentation when the internet connection conked out–blog on, indeed! (You can bet that I immediately started double-checking the offline version of my presentation.)
She concentrated on Blogger, as [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 8:34 pm
George Jaramillo and David Domenico, of Colorado State University, showed a short, speculative film about a future Amazon/Google Goliath called “Googlezon” as a catalyst for audience discussion afterward. The discussion was pretty wide-ranging and interesting, with many in the audience quite concerned about authority and accuracy in the world of networked information.
I met two other [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 1:01 pm
OK, I said I wasn’t going to blog CAL2005 to death, but I did take some notes during today’s first session on online information literacy instruction. See my notes after the jump.
In other news, my camera battery is inexplicably dead, so photos will have to wait until tomorrow.
Tags: library, cal2005, information_literacy, tutorial, academic
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Wed 9 Nov 2005, 10:10 pm
As I mentioned earlier, I will be presenting at the Colorado Association of Libraries conference on Saturday, along with my colleagues Gwen Gregory and Robin Satterwhite.
Our talk is called Teach an Old Blog New Tricks and is designed to encourage librarians to go beyond thinking of blogs as links-plus-commentary or online journals, and think of [...]
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Wed 9 Nov 2005, 12:08 pm
This Friday and Saturday, I’ll be at the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) 2005 conference in Denver. If you are there too, keep an eye out for me, and please say “hi.” I won’t be blogging this conference to death like I did for Internet Librarian, but I will be lugging the laptop along, and [...]
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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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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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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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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? stuff on CD-ROM?)
Mostly [...]
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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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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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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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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 an appointment?” [...]
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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 right
Be fair
Admit mistakes
Why do ethics [...]
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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! News” may [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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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 the [...]
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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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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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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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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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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 Librarian [...]
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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 disposal [...]
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Tue 4 Oct 2005, 10:51 pm
Starting to get excited for my trip to Monterey for Internet Librarian 2005.
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