The NMRLS Regional Systems Librarians group is hold their quarterly meeting at the Tyngsborough Public on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 10 am:
“Come join us at Tyngsborough Public Library, as our host and Tyngsborough’s Director, Randy Robertshaw dishes and demos two innovative systems he is using at his library.
Randy will discuss his use of Joomla […]
Registration for the 2008 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium being held November 2-4, 2008 at Doubletree Oak Brook hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois is now open:
http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/index.php/Main_Page
Costs:
# $300 for ALA members, TechSource subscribers (Library Technology Reports or Smart Libraries Newsletter), and students
# $350 for nonmembers
# Registration will be limited to 350 people, so […]
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 […]
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 […]
Instead of doing lots of little posts about upcoming conferences, I’m going to be slack and do a list in one post. I can’t remember for certain if I’ve written about these before in this space, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself.
MacCamp Boston, Saturday, May 10: A free forum dealing with Mac issues at […]
I attended the Massachusetts Library Association ILS Pre Conference on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Marshall Breeding gave the keynote speech called The Future of the Integrated Library Systems: Moving toward new models and open systems.
My notes and handout info: (Need to take better notes or tape talk)
None of the […]
I’ll be talking about Babbledog at blog group on Thursday, May 1. Stop by to learn more about the site and what I do for it.
7 p
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
2nd Floor Conference Room
23 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA
Zenhabits had a posting called “17 Unbeatable Ways to Create a Peaceful, Relaxed Workday:”
1. Do less. Those of you who know me by now saw this one coming. It’s very difficult to have a relaxed workday if you have too much going on. Instead, learn to reduce what you do, but choose […]
With a title like that, I can only think what Jonathan Zittrain wrote in his book must be grim because otherwise, we wouldn’t want to stop it.
One of the first things Zittrain said after taking the mic is that he used to title things poorly. I think that was in reference to something else, not […]
The early bird registration for the Mass Library Association Annual Conference must be postmarked by today, April 18, 2008! You can register online.
For more info:
http://www.masslib.org/conference/2008Conference/
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