Application Deadline: Five Weeks to a Social Library
I just wanted to remind folks that December 1 is the deadline for applications to participate in the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. You can find the application…
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MaintainIT
While at Internet Librarian, I learned about the Maintain IT Project. This three-year Bill and Melinda Gates funded initiative is designed to identify best practices for maintaining public access computers.…
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Michelle Boule is an emerging leader!
Michelle Boule by Etches-Johnson I want to wish a hearty congratulations to my good friend (and "wing man") Michelle Boule, for being chosen by LITA to represent them in the…
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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…
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…
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Participant Application
I'm so pleased and excited to see how Five Weeks to a Social Library is shaping up! We have a terrific group of presenters involved in the course who will…
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Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding
Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to…
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Five Weeks to a Social Library Presenters
Friday is the deadline to submit a proposal to provide content for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. While we have gotten a lot of proposals on certain…
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Why my (and probably your) congressman voted for DOPA
This is why. You've got to check out the actual ad; it had me half laughing half furious. I don't write much about politics on this blog, but I have…
Introducing Five Weeks to a Social Library!
Remember way back when I was talking about wanting to do some sort of a free online educational extravaganza? Well, the wheels have been turning behind the scenes, but I…
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Wikimania Day 2: Wikis: Enabling Library Knowledgebases
Our talk today went really well! Considering who we were up against (Yochai Benkler!!!), I was surprised and pleased that we had a pretty decent crowd at the talk. Update:…
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Wikimania Day 2: Library conference planners take note!
Can I tell you how nice it is to have free wireless EVERYWHERE at this conference? Not only that, but the seats are comfortable, and the desks or armrests have…
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Wikimania Day 1: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Projects
Considering that I have initiated many MediaWiki projects of my own, I was very excited about hearing from other folks who have experienced the highs and lows of running a…
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Wikimania Day 1: On Accuracy and Authority
Sins of omission? An exploratory evaluation of Wikipedia's topical coverage Alex Halavais & Derek Lackaff Looking at authority/authoritativeness of wikipedia articles. Accuracy is obviously an issue, but authority is more…
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Wikimania Day 1: Jimmy Wales
Our Movement: Past, Present, Future Jimmy first showed the "Wikiality" clip, which I highly recommend you check out for a laugh. Fundamental Mission statement: imagine a world in which every…
DOPA: Contact your senators!
I Want you ... to Drop DOPA! Originally uploaded by davidking. I haven't written much about DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act), though I certainly made my opinions about social networking…
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SirsiDynix Talk Archive
For those of you who missed my wiki talk last week and wanted to watch it later, the archived presentation is up and is available as a podcast or as…
Knowledge management in a growing and change averse organization
On Friday, I had a meeting with the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies to discuss future plans for integrating information literacy instruction into the curriculum. On several occasions…
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Walkin’ in a Wiki Wonderland
You know, I'm really going to end up running out of titles for my wiki posts, but that's a good sign. It is so exciting and gratifying to me to…
