Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 28th, 2006 No Comments »
If you haven’t seen the news about the flooding in the northeast, you haven’t been paying attention. One of the areas severely effected is my former home, Binghamton, NY. (CNN broadcast from Binghamton this evening.) I talked to friend there today who said that things were a mess and pointed me to the local newspaper [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 25th, 2006 2 Comments »
These are my notes from the Top Technology Trends session my few comments will be in italics so you know these are my thoughts not those of the speakers.
Sarah Houghton (in absentia)
Returning power over content to content owner and know it directly.
OCLC ILS - merger with RLG, OpenWorldCat, Red Light Green, solve the wealth of [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
Stephen Abram and Joseph Janes are participating in the debate regarding “Who Controls the Future of Search”, Roy Tennant is moderating the debate.
Six questions to debate:
Will search services offered by large commerical companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft replace the need for libraries
Janes - that’s a market decision. If the services are sufficiently powerful, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Friday - Arrive in New Orleans
Saturday
The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search 1:30 - 3:30
LITA Happy Hour 5:30 - 7:30 - Wolfe Restaurant NO Marriot (Convention Center Blvd)
ALA Scholarship Bash and Library Relief Event 8:00 - 11:00
Burger’s Blogger Bash - 10:30 - midnight
Sunday
BIGWIG Meeting - 10:30am - 11:30am
LITA Top Technology Trends - 1:30pm [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 24th, 2006 No Comments »
I arrived in New Orleans yesterday late afternoon, after a long but pleasant drive with some folks from MPOW. After negotiating the one way streets to drop people off, I was glad to be out of the car and walking about. New Orleans isn’t really what I expected. There are some very cute parts that [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
I’m off to New Orleans tomorrow for ALA. I’ve been so busy this spring that until Monday I hadn’t really stopped and looked at the program to see what I might be attending. Besides the panel I’m participating in our course! After perusing the conference offerings, I found that there is a plethora of really [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 22nd, 2006 3 Comments »
I’m participating at ALA in a panel discussion sponsored by LITA entitled “Next Stop Blogging: Building a Professional Blog for your Library”. My piece of the discussion will focus on four ways blog owner/creators can enhance and extend their weblogs: feedburner, creative commons license, tagging, and print and mobile stylesheets. Because I only have a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been very busy the last month making some serious lifestyle changes due a migraine-filled spring. During this process I made some interesting discoveries at the public library. I’d primarily been using the local branch to get fun reading. However, here are a few things that I discovered in the last month that have endeared [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 19th, 2006 2 Comments »
So since moving to Houston I’ve had to aquaint myself with new kinds of days. In New York we had snow days, when it would snow so much it wasn’t wise/safe to go to work. Down here we have hurricane evacuation days (got to experience that less than a month after moving here) and “rain [...]
Posted in open source software on Jun 16th, 2006 4 Comments »
What can I say? I’m a sucker when it comes to getting asked a tech question of any sort. I love to go off investigating. Meredith at Information Wants to Be Free and I were talking a while back and Drupal came up. I’ve been interested in playing with it for a while because it [...]
