Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been at ALA for two days now and only really managed to get 1 blog post up. I normally blog more at conferences but this ALA is a busy one for me. I think that there is only one program that I’m going to be able to go to of my own free will. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Friday I spoke as part the RUSA Preconf on Reinventing Reference with Michael Stephen, David Lee King, Dave Free, and David Ward. Although many of the different topics that the other folks are talking about I know a great deal about, being at the preconference is a great experience for two reasons. First, it is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 22nd, 2007 2 Comments »
Sarah Houghton-Jan (Librarian in Black) has a great piece concerning accepting vendor perks and bias. Sarah says lots of good things in this post, but one place where I respectfully disagree with her is just how objective we really can be. Truthfully I don’t think we can be objective. So much of our opinions and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 20th, 2007 3 Comments »
This year at ALA will be my first appearance as part of the LITA Top Tech Trends panel. Since I was asked to be part of TTT 2 months ago, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible trends I want to talk about. Many possible trend topics have gone through my head. However, I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
It is funny how years of experience alter one’s perspective on the pace of change. When I started at Cortland in March of 2001, I was perpetually frustrated at the rate of change within the organization. I wanted action to get taken and to see tangible changes. It seemed to me like no progress was [...]
Posted in Chat on Jun 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
So for the Social Software Showcase, my collaborators and I setup a Meebo room. The only problem is that I don’t use Meebo. Why you might ask? You can log into it from almost any computer. It doesn’t need to be installed. You can log into multiple accounts. You can create a chat box with [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
So I’ve been meaning to take a look at Google Gears for a while because of the buzz it has been getting. In particular I was interest in the fact that you can use it in combination with Google Reader to read your news feeds offline. So I downloaded and tried it out. Frankly, it [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is the surprise that I’ve been talking to people about for months now. A full description of the Showcase is available on LITABlog and there will be a lot more to come on the official Showcase wiki.
The Social Software Showcase, in some ways, has been a long time in the making. The PTBs at [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
What happens when you combine a need to “think outside the box”, dogged determination, creativity, and a plethora of library friends? A unique, and interesting endeavor is underway for ALA 2007. Everyone is is invited to participate. Visit here and LITA Blog for more information tomorrow.
Posted in General Thoughts on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Jessamyn has a great post over at librarian.net about women and open source software projects. My favor quote is where she says
a woman with even a passing competency in this areana …is such an anomaly that people just stop and stare.
This is so true and what goes hand and hand with this is a lack [...]
