I only attended about 30 minutes of the microfilm digitization vendor roundtable at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference on Monday, June 12. Here’s my summary.
If you’re working with a paper that has a long history, don’t forget that papers 100 years ago had different contents than papers today. It’s important to pick a vendor [...]
Gwen Ifill, a well-known American broadcast journalist who’s on the two highly regarded PBS (public television) shows NewsHour and Washington Week, gave the opening address at the Special Libraries Association 2006 Annual Conference. I put my notes online.
Addendum 7/1: I’m listening to Gwen Ifill on Wait Wait–Don’t Tell Me! One of the questions they asked [...]
One of the scratchpad’s readers told me as a way to reach out to and encourage female programmers, GNOME is offering some money for a student to work on a project this summer.
"Each project will last two months, and each participant will each receive a stipend of 3,000 US$. You can submit your own proposal [...]
I posted an outline of the talk I gave on a panel about wikis in the newsroom at the Special Libraries Association 2006 Annual Conference on Monday, June 12.
Well, Jill, if you’re still going to be around this afternoon, the prime time to at least see me in person happens between 3 pm and 4:30 pm in room 336. I’ll be filling in for Steven Cohen on the panel Sharing Conference Knowledge: SLA 2006 Debrief.
*j takes advantage of blog comment for shameless self-promotion
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Dear Readers,
The conference is wonderful! Wish you were here!
j
Wow! I was thinking I’d have lots of opportunities to pop back to a place with an Internet connection to write, but I’m finding I know so many people here, it’s difficult to sneak away. I’m also finding I’d rather have face time with people I don’t [...]
I believe we’ve talked before about how my machine always gets a little testy when I’m about to do a presentation. Today, the power brick isn’t working right. The thin cable going from the brick to the machine has to be in the absolute perfect position in order for my machine to get any power. [...]
Chris Brogan has posted audio of BarCamp called The Sounds of BarCamp. The cool thing about this captured audio is that it includes some of the introductions. Listen to get an idea of what kinds of cool tech projects people around Boston are working on. Starting at about the 5:30 mark, there’s an explanation about [...]
Garrett includes two items I’m noting here in the current Library News and Notes.
TechSoup provides some suggestions for using tags. Although the text seems to focus on del.icio.us, most of the advice will work in multiple systems.
History News Network reminds us that more and more content is born into very fragile digital media and we [...]
Fortune magazine takes a look at MySQL and its distributed nature. Years ago, a company without a central location or headquarters would have seemed a bit strange. Now, more and more companies are allowing workers to telecommute.
Thanks for the link, JD!