Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
My preconference workshop with Jason Clark on AJAX in Libraries today went really well. I always enjoy working with Jason because he knows his stuff and is willing to let the presentation be a conversation between us and the audience. We changed up the presentation a little bit at the last minute so I wanted [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After a long day of travel Friday, I arrived safely in Monterey for Internet Librarian. I’m co-teaching a preconference workshop on Saturday again this year and then co-presenting a session with Michelle Boule on Tuesday.
There is something great about Internet Librarian that always keeps bringing me back to this conference even though there are lots [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
LITA Forum 2007 was extremely interesting. David Lee King and Jeremy Frumkin’s keynotes were both thought provoking.
A big thumbs up on the no bits of paper to carry around. Every year I go to Annual I weep over the trees killed. A future conference planning chair said that she and several others missed the paper [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Future is Not Out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0 and Emerging Trends
David Lee King
People think about change in different ways
Positively
Negatively
Librarians and change
slow change
fast change
Transformation taking place in social networking world
Social networking is really taking off
Mentioned in mass media
patrons noticing and caring
RSS, RSS Reading, tagging, comments, mash ups, user generated content, friending
Comments
old way - one-on-one, [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Five Months with WorldCat Local: The University of Washington Libraries Experience
Jennifer Ward
uwashington.worldcat.org
Finding Time (YouTube video)
What does it search?
3 catalogs
Holdings in WorldCat
4 article databases
PubMed
ERIC
GPO
ArticleFirst
What doesn’t search?
Some serials
Certain Special Collections records
Records for on-order in process titles
Licensed third party record sets
Why test WorldCat Local?
Research shows that most [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
The October schedule madness has begun. Yesterday I flew to Denver for LITA Forum which is the first of three conferences I’m attending in October. Normally, three conferences isn’t a big deal. But my application for continuing appointment also happens to be due at the end of Oct, as is the book manuscript. So I’m [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The third and fourth days of ALA were as busy for me as the first and second days. Sunday was the Top Tech Trends panel with myself, John Blyberg, Marshall Breeding, Walt Crawford, Joan Frye Williams, and Roy Tennant. I’d never heard Joan speak before and I thought that she was awesome because she brought [...]
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 Notes from the Field, XML on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
(Sorry I’m a bit late getting this out!) The focus of day 4 of the XML workshop was XQuery. Yet another topic I don’t have much experience with and have been slightly intimidated by up until this point. Patrick Yott showed us that each XQuery is typically based on the FLWOR module:
For
Let
Where
Order
Return
Using this basic model [...]
