The Education Institute’s Tech Tuesday: Talking with Techies series of audio talks begins this year on Tuesday, Feb 7 at 3 pm EST, with Aaron Schmidt’s talk about Socializing Your Library: Using Social Computing Skills. His talk last fall on using instant messageing (IM) was very popular. The Education Insitute is a parthership of Canadian [...]
Looking forward to the fall conference season, the call for speakers for Information Today’s Internet Librarian 2006 wants speakers for talks related to the theme, Integrated Experiences: Compelling Content Combinations, especially mashups! Think about the interesting things you are doing in your library or information service, and send us a proposal. We’d love to have [...]
Later this week the Ontario Library Association’s Superconference 2006 , held in Toronto, kicks off with an interesting theme, The Right Brain of Librarianship — Creative Connections and Innovation . Lots of great sessions including: Stephen Abram’s Are Libraries Innovative Enough?, Session 1101 on Fri Oct 3 at 10:40 am Jane Dysart’s The Right Brain [...]
I was very lucky to have a sunny, warm vacation after the holiday season. While on the beach I read a new book from an author whom I have followed for years, J.A. Jance. Her crime fighting characters, J.P. Beaumont and Joanna Brady are like old friends. Her new book, Edge of Evil, is a [...]