Don’t be like me and forget to register for the Special Libraries Association Boston Chapter Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, November 15, at 6 pm at the Omni Parker House in downtown Boston. Registration deadline is Friday, November 10.
Yes, the annual business meeting is in November. Since SLA flipped the year to map to the […]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting Blogging the Vote in 2006: A Celebration of Political Bloggers on Monday, October 30, at 5 pm. They’re located at 23 Everett Street in Cambridge. The event is open to the public. An RSVP is requested: rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu.
A recent issue of Online magazine focuses on some career changes of library and information science professionals.
I found Susan Klopper’s account of switching from being a business librarian to an academic librarian working at a business school library quite interesting. A few days ago, I chatted with someone about this very topic. Worth noting are […]
I finally got around to reading the October 2006 Searcher magazine article Helen Keil Losch and Daphne Chang wrote about Stanford’s Graduate School of Business library’s toolbar, FastJack. It’s a way for them to market the library and its services by giving their customers a handy set of links for their Web browser. It appears […]
As you might imagine, a few women on my flights today were from Internet Librarian. One of them had a fantastic radical militant librarian tote bag. My favorite part is the saying, “The worst part of censorship is .” (That doesn’t really work on this blog, does it?)
Among my contradancing friends, going out after a dance to get food is called “Afters.” Afters play an important role at conferences, too. Often, some of the best networking is done outside of the sessions, the exhibit hall, and the talks. Being able to join colleagues over a meal or a drink to informally talk […]
Liz Lawley of several blogs is giving the closing keynote about games and such. Games can be a great way to connect people together. She’s telling us about a variety of games. On the one hand, it’d be kind of cool to play some of these games, but on the other hand, I’m sure it […]
Walter Nelson of RAND is starting us off with a presentation about alternative uses for applications commonly used in blogging and XML feeds. We have to meet our clients where they are, not where we want them to be. People don’t always understand XML feeds, but many do understand Web sites. Integrating feeds into a […]
Steven Cohen, who is actually here and for whom I’m not filling in this time (SLA joke), took us through an alphabetical list of nifty social software stuff, or social softwr as he spells it. He’s going to post the list online later, so I’m not going to take detailed notes about it here.
The audience […]
Originally, I was going to attend The Best of Resource Shelf: SE Update with everyone’s favorite librarian, Gary Price, then attend the last half of Wikis for Libraries, but I got a little, uh, distracted with a tech problem and just made it to the last bit of Wikis for Libraries.
I saw part of Marianne […]