[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 [...]
Yes, I am at Internet Librarian today instead of wandering around in the beautiful sunshine or visiting the aquarium. The sessions I have been in are in rooms without wireless Internet access, so I haven’t’ been able to do any live blogging. I have notes somewhere I’ll put up when I get a chance.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is hosting a live discussion on Wikipedia on Thursday October 26 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time:
Wikipedia: Beat it, Join it or Ignore It?
http://chronicle.com/live/2006/10/halava…
There is a free article written by Brock Reed about Wikipedia in the Chronicle issue dated October 27, 2006:
Free access:
Can Wikipedia ever make the grade? Volune [...]
The ResourceShelf shares some thoughts on copyright and YouTube. What is the role of sites like these that post community media in informing their users about copyright law? How can they prevent violators from posting non-compliant material?
Do I really need to introduce Gary Price and Steven Cohen to you? They’re giving a team presentation now about keeping up-to-date. I’m not going to be able to keep up with the session, let alone keeping up in general. It’s a very good thing that Gary has already put his presentation online and so [...]
Second Life is a virtual world that’s become very popular with some of my friends and the folks at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Some folks behind the library in Second Life are giving a talk in a few minutes. I think I might go to that, even though Second Life doesn’t interest [...]
Next on the schedule is Sabrina Pacifici and Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks, who will tell us about how to search tools like blogs. Sabrina is speaking first.
Sabrina–it feels odd to call her by her last name when I’ve been refering to her and her work using her first name for a while–said she has [...]