Great article in the Toronto Globe & Mail, Radio Blogs Get Great Reception, Wed Mar 23 — Podcasting is the latest boradcast technology storming the Internet and it’s sparking a radio renaisannce. Since the link probably will only last a few days, here’s a couple of highlights:* podcasting is like TIVO for your iPod* receive [...]
And now I’m part of a podcast about Computers in Libraries held in DC last week. Eighteen minutes, no commercials! Great job, Greg Schwartz!
This morning it was announced to the SLA Board of Directors, that former President Bill Clinton recently agreed to be a general session speaker for the SLA Annual Meeting in Toronto. He will speak on Wednesday morning , from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Fantastic! See you there.
Hot news!SLA is looking at blogging their annual conference in Toronto, June 5-8. If you are planning to attend the conference and blog the event, please let me know!jane@dysartjones.com
As I reflect on Clifford Lynch’s talk at Computers in Libraries 2005 about the digital decades from the 80s to the present and beyond, I am struck by how many things I have seen in the past that are just now playing a role in the present and into the future. Voice Over Internet Protocol [...]
Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College gave a wonderful presentation, Building Communities in the Palm of Your Hand. She talked about how libraries can have syncing stations for PDA users and how beaming builds communities. She has hundreds of examples on her web site. I found the stats she mentioned about cell [...]
A fun audio blog post…
Tara Calishain, Author, Web Search Garage, & Editor, Research Buzz: If you don’t know how to do something, take a nerd to lunch!If I could invest in a human being, it would be Michael Fagan! Gary Price, ResourceShelf.comfrom one of his students, “If Google was a man, she’d run off and marry him because he [...]
from Carol Penne, Senior Librarian, International Monetary Fund and Zachary Wahl, Program Manager, Project Performance Corporation at Computers in Libraries 2005. 1. Lack of end user communications2. Competing interests3. Too loose/too tight governance4. Lack of mandate5. Unclear scope
I’m certainly brimming with ideas for future conferences and events. How about you? If so, send them along as we plan for:Internet Librarian 2005, Monterey CA, Oct. 24-6C2: Connect & Collaborate!, NY, Sept 27-28KMWorld & Intranets 2005, San Jose, Nov 15-17Computers in Libraries 2006, Washington DC, Mar 22-24