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 [...]
[These notes are my draft notes. I will polish them later.]
Internet Librarian: Clements: Using Wiki Software in a Newsroom Environment
Everyone comes to Maureen Clements’ talks because we’re all big fans of National Public Radio, her employer. But really, what NPR is doing with wikis is really cool.
Maureen works at two of the three reference desks, [...]
[These are my rough notes about the session. I will read through them and do any polishing later.]
Internet Librarian: Repositories in Action
Judi Briden of the University of Rochester introduced us to UR’s DSpace project and how researchers are using it to store their materials.
Marshall Breeding of the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University discussed the [...]
I attended about the last half of this talk with Joe Matthews, who has written about how libraries and librarians need to and can determine value. I didn’t take notes, but I’ll add a few things from memory later.
Tag: il2006
So, I’m in kind of a weird spot now because I never did get around to posting notes about the sessions I attended yesterday. (What can I say? I got involved in a fabulous conversation about search engines and Internet tools after dinner last night. By the time I got back to my room, I [...]