Musings on library school, books, technology, and other things by a library school student, computer geek and bibliophile.
Posted in Life's Little Annoyances on Oct 31st, 2006
Well, if you’re all reading this, it means that “Adventures in Library School” is once again in the land of the living. Something went wacky with my server today – I don’t know when – I noticed it about 18:30MST on the 31st. But since I’ve been too busy today to check before then, I [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 30th, 2006
Presented by:
Barbara Fullerton, Manager, Librarian Relations, 10-K Wizard
Sabrina I. Pacifici, Editor & Publisher of LLRX.com
Aaron Schmidt, Thomas Ford Memorial Library & walkingpaper.org
The final session I attended on Monday was all about gadgets. From the really cool, really, useful, may they catch on and get cheaper soon (like the Kurzweil Federation for the Blind Reader), to [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 30th, 2006
The first of the afternoon sessions I went to was about a library project I’ve been following from afar for a while: the construction of a virtual library in the online game Second Life. So it was really interesting to hear about the ups and downs of this project first hand. I’ve also been debating [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 28th, 2006
The second session on Monday in the public library track was given by Stephen Abram VP of innovation at SirsiDynix (for any family members still braving the library geekery, they’re a major vendor of library computer systems), who talked about the idea of personas as a means of user-centered planning.
The presentation kicked off with [...]
Posted in Life in Tucson on Oct 28th, 2006
Okay, this is just too cool.
On my way home for the grocery store this afternoon I got to see (for only the second time since I moved to Tucson) a roadrunner crossing the road. Man, those little critters are fast.
Alas, there was no coyote tearing after it, but still way cool.
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 28th, 2006
The second speaker for the public library 2.0 presentation was Helene Blowers from the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. She talked about the program she set up to encourage library staff to learn about new technology, and this has got to be one of the coolest training programs I’ve run across in a [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 26th, 2006
After an amazing 3 days at internet librarian, I’ve managed to drag myself (and my luggage) back to Tucson in one piece. A core dump of conference posts is coming tomorrow – they need a bit of cleanup so my notes don’t sound like they were written by concussed toddler with no typing skills (not [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 24th, 2006
I spent the morning sitting in on the Public Libraries track, mostly because they had speakers I wanted to hear (I read way too many library blogs, and now I get to see some of these folks talk in person – very cool). Here’s the first of several sets of my (somewhat disjointed) notes.
Michael [...]
Posted in IL2006, Internet Librarian 2006 on Oct 24th, 2006
Hi all!
I’m here for Internet Librarian, and enjoying myself immensely.
Oh, and remember how I said I wasn’t going to try to blog professional development stuff because it takes me too long to write things up?
Well, I lied, at least in one case.
I forgot my paper notebook and I’m taking notes on my computer, so I’ve [...]