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NEASIS&T Talk The Library is dead. Long Live The Library! The Rebirth of Libraries in the 21st Century MIT Media Lab Dec 8 9 am

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

NEASIS&T is holding a program called “The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century” at the MIT Media Lab on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 between 9 am-4 pm.
“Library closures, slashed budgets, user apathy – everything’s online, right? It’s a story many of us have [...]

Is There a Future for Special Libraries? Simmons GSLIS November 17 5 pm

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Toby Pearlstein is giving the ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture: Is There a Future for Special Libraries? on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5 pm at the Kotzen Meeting Center, Simmons College, Boston, MA.
“2009 is the 100th anniversary of the Special Libraries Association, making this an ideal time to consider if there is a future [...]

Doing More with Less via Web 2.0: Conference 11/18 & 19, New York City

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

“The Podcamp Foundation is teaming up with TechWeb And O’Reilly Publishing to plan the Open sessions at the Web 2.0 Conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on Wednesday, November 18th and Thursday, November 19th, 2009.
The Open’s theme is ‘Doing More with Less,’ and we’re lucky enough to have a collection of [...]

Boston Book Festival Saturday October 24 Copley Square 10-6

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

The Boston Book Festival is being held on Saturday, October 24, 2009 in the Copley Square area between 10 am-6 pm:
“The wait is over! The Boston Book Festival has just announced its official schedule of events, and with 31 to choose from, and you’re guaranteed a fun-filled, jam-packed day on Saturday, October 24 between 10:00 [...]

Free Ruby on Rails Workshop, Oct. 16-17

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

(Oof. I really haven’t posted this workshop yet. My apologies for the late notice.)
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Research on Computation and Society are facilitating a free Ruby on Rails workshop this weekend, October 16 and 17. Intended to be a supportive learning environment to encourage women in the [...]

InfoCamp: Seattle, Oct. 10-11, 2009

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Kristen emailed to say last year’s InfoCamp in Seattle was a great success with more than 200 attendees and lots of exciting things. To start the excitement this year, there is a shipshape tweet for Talk Like a Pirate Day about the gathering, as well as useful info on the wiki. Admission to the event [...]

$50 SLA Registration Discount Ends Today (9/4)

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I hate to post on top of Rich’s contribution about the front page Globe story on Cushing Academy’s changes to their library, but I want to make sure word gets out that the Special Library Association’s $50 discount on the 2010 Annual Conference registration ends today, Friday, September 4. The conference is in June 13-16 [...]

Call for Speakers Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference April 12-14, 2010

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

The 25th Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference, April 12-14, 2009, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, is calling for speakers. The topic is Information Fluency: Literacy for Life:
“Information fluency goes beyond literacy (the ability to read and write), information literacy (the ability to find, evaluate and use information), media literacy (the ability to access, [...]

NELINET Internet Librarian 2009 Conference Discount

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

NELINET, OCLC’s New England regional network, is offering $200 off the regular conference price at the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference on October 26 – 28, 2009 at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, CA.
- Costs*: Internet Librarian (October 26 – 28, 2009) – $279.00
- [...]

Code4Lib Journal Issue 7 Out

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Issue 7 of the Code4Lib Journal is out:
How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source
Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC
Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I
Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr
Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository
Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from [...]


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