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The Joy of Screencasting
Ever since I first started screencasting almost two years ago, I've been really surprised how few people are talking about how cool it is. It can be so hard to…
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Bloglines Issues
Jennifer Macaulay mentioned today (at least I think it was today -- though by the time you see it, it could be three days from now) that she's noticed her…
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Feed2JS – Always a hitch
Ken Varnum, of RSS4LIB, and I were both speaking at the Dartmouth Biomedical Library's Fall Conference on Friday, and we were talking about Feed2JS (which I talked about with Paul…
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IL 2006 Wrapup
Wow! What an amazing conference! I can honestly say that I didn't go to a single bad/boring/irrelevant talk and, although I was sick and sidelined on Day 3, I got…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Wrapup
October Conference Wrap-up - Roy Tennant Roy discusses the salient points from each talk. Wikis: Creating Collaboration in Libraries Wikis are a low-threshold way to collaborate. Doesn't need to be…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Mystery Topic
Staying Informed by Bill Garrity, Dartmouth University "Being geeky doesn't make us losers." We all have personal requirements for how we get information. Bill doesn't want to have to go…
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Dartmouth Conference – Emerging Mobile Technologies for Libraries
by Gabriel Rios, University of Alabama, Birmingham Mobile devices are another way to get content into the hands of our patrons. Types of mobile devices - PDAs/Smart Phones, Cell phones,…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Podcasting Panel
Our Content, Their Device: Three Uses of the iPod - Sarah G. Wenzel, Columbia University The librarians at Columbia University have developed library content that can be used on an…
Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – RSS Panel
Using RSS to Promote Scholarly Publications - Ken Varnum, Tufts University RSS stands for real simple syndication. It's an xml-based data format for syndicating content. Way to send a title,…
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Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference – Keynote
I just got home last night from California around 8:30 PM and am now, at what was 6:10 am for me yesterday, sitting at Dartmouth at a terrific conference they…
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IL2006 Day 2: Delivering Individualized Library Content: Portals and the Future of Library Web Sites.
Tom Ipri, La Salle University At Computers in Libraries in March, I had told Tom how excited I was about going to his talk and then I promptly went and…
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IL2006 Day 2: Institutional Repository Basics: From Soup to Nuts
Roy Tennant, University of California While I was very interested in all of the talks in the social computing track today, I really wanted to expand my knowledge of certain…
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IL 2006 Day 1: Federated Search: State of the Art
Jeff Wisnewski and Frank Cervone I haven't really looked much at federated search tools since my post on using MetaLib well over a year ago. So I was very interested…
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Internet Librarian Day 1: The Basics of Web-Based Experience Planning
by David King, newly of the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library David showed a whole bunch of library Websites that give users a really bad experience. There was one where…
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Internet Librarian Day 1: Using Ethnographic Methods to Know Your Users
Judi Briden, Katie Clark and Isabel Kaplan from the University of Rochester. They did a two year project to determine what undergraduates really do when they write research papers. They…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies
Jason Clark (Montana State University) and Karen Coombs (University of Houston) Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Websites by Karen Coombs Web 2.0 concepts – Radical decentralization – usually you have…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Public Library 2.0: Emerging Technologies and Changing Roles
Michael Stephens, Jenny Levine and Helene Blowers Yes, I know I’m not a public librarian, but I thought this would be a really interesting talk. I’ve never actually heard Michael…
Internet Librarian Day 1: Getting Started
I am in beautiful Monterey now, having left the Wine Country this weekend to head to Internet Librarian. The vacation was everything I needed it to be and I’m here…
The good, the bad and the utterly hillarious
I have been ridiculously busy getting ready for the five talks I have coming up in the next three weeks. I have to have the slides for them all totally…
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Genre Fiction ID System
My dad (Jody Gorran) is a crazy entrepreneur. He has had more businesses (and business ideas) since I was born than years that I've been alive. From a hair salon,…
