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Coming Soon… Internet Librarian

By Meredith Farkas | September 21, 2006

I’m starting to get excited! Internet Librarian is coming in one month!!! Ok, maybe I’m a little bit more excited about the week before that which I will be spending in the Wine Country with Adam. But I am really excited to see my librarian friends, meet some people I’ve been dying to meet, go to some thought-provoking presentations and have some really exciting chats in between them. It looks like it’s going to be a rockin’ conference!

We have a wiki again for this conference and I hope anyone who has been to Monterey will do their part in recommending great restaurants, things to do, etc. At the moment, there isn’t a lot in the restaurant section and that’s usually the most useful section on the wiki — at least for me. I also created a Conference Reports section this time around where people can link to their blog posts or — if they don’t have a blog — can actually post their own conference reports. It would be great to have that sort of stuff all collected in one place. Conference tags are great too, but I find it particularly useful to be able to see all of the coverage on a specific session in one place so that I can see how differently people perceived it. So please, let’s all work make this a truly useful resource that will benefit all of us!

I am doing A LOT of speaking at Internet Librarian — a presentation, a panel, a preconference workshop and a CyberTour. You can find the schedule of my talks and my tentative conference schedule here on the wiki. I’m pretty excited about my RSS and JavaScript talk, both because I have the pleasure of working with Paul Pival and because it’s not about wikis. ;) It’s definitely easier to talk about something you know really well, but it’s much more fun and challenging to stretch yourself to learn a new topic and talk about it. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed by all my upcoming talks in the Fall, so I’m kind of looking forward to a quieter Winter and Spring, speaking-wise. I find speaking a whole lot more stressful and time-consuming than writing.

Hope to see you at Internet Librarian!

Topics: RSS and Syndication, Wikis, librarianship | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Coming Soon… Internet Librarian”

  1. Dorothea Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    A mashup of you and me would make one seriously well-rounded librarian. Speaking is no big deal for me, but writing ties me in knots.

  2. joshua m. neff Says:
    September 21st, 2006 at 9:00 pm

    Boy, my excitement about IL is just growing and growing! I can’t wait!

  3. Julie Says:
    September 25th, 2006 at 8:51 am

    Do you need an assistant at all these talks? I was gonna be your groupie anyway :)

  4. Meredith Says:
    October 1st, 2006 at 2:18 pm

    Hi Julie! WOW, a groupie! Thanks for the offer of assistance. I think I’ll be ok, but it’ll be nice to meet you at IL.