Posted in Presentations on Mar 27th, 2006 3 Comments »
I’ve noticed that people have been asking about my CIL presentations already so I’m putting them up ASAP. Sorry I didn’t get them up sooner, particularly for those of you at my Open Source Software for Library Websites talk. I know I flew through the content so here are all the relevant links and info [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 27th, 2006 No Comments »
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Posted in BLeading Edge Thoughts, Notes from the Field on Mar 25th, 2006 1 Comment »
Project Croquet: What the web should have been…
introduced by Marshall Breeding
Marshall explained that Croquet was something that he had seen at a meeting of the Coalition for Networked information and thought was worth showing to library and information professionals to let them know what is going on with radically new internet technologies. Marshall has an [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The Web 2.0 Challenge to Libraries
presented by Paul Miller
Doctorate in Archaeology! (I don’t feel quite so weird with my BA in Anthropology.)
Paul was really funny in his presentation. He has a great sense of humor in trying to get people to understand that people don’t think that the library is necessarily where they want to [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Supporting the Digital World with Gadgets
presented by Hope Tillman - http://www.hopetillman.com
I blogged this session with extensive notes but they seem to have disappeared. For a fuller summary than what I have left check out Michael Sauers post on Travelin’ Librarian. The speaker focuses on the following trends in gadgets: Covergence, personalization/customization, and miniaturation (portablity). She [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
Life Online
The internet enhancing work and play
Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and American Life Project
Who’s blogging this?
Writing of a Loud Librarian
Stephen’s Web
Freedom to Connect conference
IRC channel while speaking
sometimes people say some unusual things
Time cover story - “Are kids too wired for their own good?”
8 realities of their lives
Millenials are a district age cohort, according to many [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
The best thing about Computers in Libraries is the ability to meet and talk to new people. Already I’ve subscribe to a couple new blogs by librarians I met at the conference. Plus, I’m collaborating on a future pre/post conference with Jason A. Clark from Montana State University. He and I have similar interests in [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
presented by Lorcan Dempsey
Releasing value of classical bibliographic data
Web 2.0
flat applications
APIs
lightweight service composition and web services
stitching functionality and applications together
Rich interaction
AJAX
GoogleMaps
rich interaction at browser level that we are accustom to at the desktop level
interactivity with the browser
smoother applications
Data in the new functionality
make data work harder
collection, exploitation and mining of data
Wish list and suggestion in Amazon
Page [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
presented by Athena Hoeppner & Meg Scharf
Affinity Mapping Projects
Let people organize item into groups
What do people think is most important?
Create understandable labels
How to handle affinity mapping data
Create spreadsheet of all the terms and their score, their catagory
Created mockups
Active learning affinity map project
sort slips into groups
mapping in the library lobby
If students have fun you raise the [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 23rd, 2006 6 Comments »
Presented by Darlene Fichter & Frank Cervone
PHP Editor -
PHP Expert Debugger - http://www.ankord.com/phpxdbg.html
Fabulous Firefox extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/
Web Developer 1.02
Colorful Tabs 1.1
Tab X 0.9.1
HTML Validator 0.7.9
Screen grab! 0.7
Copy Plain Text 0.3.2
Edit CSS 0.3.1
View Formatted source 0.9.4.6
LiveHTTPHeaders
EyeonSite (can monitor what is going on on a given server) - http://www.virdi-software.com/eyeonsite
Link Popularity Check - http://www.CheckYourLinkPopularity.com
Widgets at Your Fingertips [...]
