Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Jason Griffey has a great post on the ALA TechSource blog about teaching others about new technologies and the gaps in what different librarian know about technologies. Several things struck me about Jason’s post. The first was Jason’s and several other geek librarian folks unending willingness to share their knowledge and experiences with others. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 30th, 2008 No Comments »
The last week I’ve spent a significant amount of my time doing clean up work, documentation and policy writing. Part of this is that the staff of Web Services has grown from 3 when I started 3 years to 5 1/2 currently. While that is a great thing, it means that there is a great [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
It has been interesting to read and hear various people’s reactions to the Top Tech Trends panel from this year’s ALA. It is sort of weird having been a participant but not being physically there and seeing people’s comments. Many of the things people mentioned in their comments (the audio issues) I noticed while participating [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Watching and participating in the Social Software Showcase from a distance is really neat. Particularly watching Griffey in action! My biggest disappointment was that only 2 people showed up for the virtual discussion :( . I can understand why, hey the discussion was on a Saturday. I’m hoping that more people show up for the [...]
