Vinton Cerf is the opening speaker at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. A former senior vice president at MCI, with Robert Kahn, he co-designed the TCP/IP protocol and basic architecture of the Internet. Now, he’s Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. (What a fab title!) Charlie Rose is interviewing him.
Stephen Abram, president of the Special Libraries Association, just gave a special presidential citation to Gary Price for his work advancing our profession, with the ResourceShelf, all of his speaking engagements, and everything else he’s done for us. Stephen joked that as president, he can do all sorts of things he’s always wanted to do, [...]
The Special Libraries Association just gave Sabrina Pacifici, whom you might know from her online resources LLRX.com and beSpacific, a very prestigious award for her innovative use of technology. I’ve linked to resources she points out many times. Congratulations, Sabrina!
The best thing about which I’ve learned by coming to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference is that SLA has an online space where members can play with and learn about all kinds of technology called the Innovation Laboratory. It’s just the thing we need to get our fingertips wet with the latest and greatest [...]