Archive for May 9th, 2008

CIL 2008: Learning From Newspapers/Politics

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Library Revolution had the following interesting post about the 2008 Computers In Library talk on Newspapers and Politics:
“Libraries can learn so much by looking at what other industries have done, the challenges they have faced, and the concerns they are thinking about when building these online community interfaces.
Especially helpful here was the notion of […]

MASSLIB08 David Lee King Managers Pay Attention! Why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library

Friday, May 9th, 2008

David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]

MASSLIB08 Keynote Speaker David Weinberger Miscellaneous Knowledge or The Smell of Knowledge

Friday, May 9th, 2008

David Weinberger, author of Everything is miscellaneous and member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society gave the Wednesday keynote talk called the Miscellaneous Knowledge, which he changed to The Smell of Knowledge at the 2008 Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth, Mass.:
Bought up the fact that letters used to have the smell of […]


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