Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
I took one of the iPod Touch that the UH Libraries bought with me to Internet Librarian and over the course of the conference learned a bunch of neat tricks and installed some cool free Apps. This included:
How to take a screen shot on your iPod Touch
Stanza
InstaPaper
Wordpress blogging App
Stanza
Also for those of you reading my [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Liz Lawley
Liz is warning us that she is going to insight technolust
Today is Liz’s 6 year blogversary!!
How can libraries embrace the tangible again?
We care what things feel like and look like
Apple understands the importance of the physical and tangible
Social proprioception - mobile devices are making this easier
Ability to say where we are
People want to know [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
David Lee King, Stephen Abram, Rebecca Jones, and Nancy Dowd
Moderated by Greg Schwartz
This session flew by so fast that I couldn’t keep up. Below are a few key points and my reflections on the session.
Nancy Dowd was fabulous!!
I’ve never seen someone out present Stephen Abrams but Nancy did.
Tapping into your [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Web 2.0
Shift in development and deployment
Users effect the technology cycle
User generated content
Flows tech bubble & means hope
Reshape the way people see interact and use technology
Reshaping of public spaces online
Rise of social network sites
Key characteristics of
- profile - digital body, way of making yourself known in a particular context
- public articulation of friends - weirdness of [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
John Blyberg & Chris Barr
http://thesocialopac.net
Can you customize your opac NO
No personalization
Horrible logins!!
aadl.org sopac 1.0
Internet portal for online library experience
Not enough customizations
Drupal, tagging, reviews, ratings, comments
Issues with critical mass
Tags reviews not representative
Social data not searchable
SOPAC 2.0
Locum - discovery layer
Write an ILS connector for your ILS
Abstractions of connectors
Social data engine for libraries - Insurge
Shared social data between [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Teaching 3 preconferences in 2 days was fun and exhausting. Now the real fun begins. My last presentation was today. After which I wanted to collapse from exhaustion but I didn’t. Instead there was lots of talking and socializing until quite late. Hopefully, I’ll have enough energy to attend some of the cooler presentations Tuesday. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I just finished my presentations at IL and I am SO exhausted. I hope to get some sleep tonight rather than obsess. Taking the iPod Touch from work to try out was the best idea I ever had. Read an ebook while waiting for the shuttle to Monterey. Able to get directions to restaurant. Now [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
I arrived in Monterey late last night for Internet Librarian. My conference starts early because I agreed to teach 3 preconference, which I’ve been preparing for months. The preconference I’m most excited about is the open source content management system one. Unfortunately sign-ups aren’t as high as I would have hoped, which is sad because [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 7th, 2008 No Comments »
So I posted a while back that it would be really nice if there was a Drupal module that essential did the same thing as the Wordpress Open Book Book Data plugin. To my great happiness, there now is! Book Post is a module for Drupal (version 6) that does essentially the same thing as [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 4th, 2008 6 Comments »
Bruce Washburn from OCLC left a comment on my post about building an iPhone app for WorldCat.
We think an iPhone app for WorldCat is interesting too. We’ve been doing some thinking and experimenting with that idea on the API team, and would really like to hear more about the shape you think a WorldCat iPhone [...]
