Computers in Libraries 2005, Day 1 (morning sessions)

Here’s a quick run-down on what I listened to this morning:
9am - Intro (I think it was Dick Kaser):

Best turnout in over 5 years.
Over 2100 registered.
From all 50 states and DC. 10 countries.
139 speakers and moderators, 62 exhibitors

Clifford Lynch (keynote):
No Powerpoint. Cool - I need a cheatsheet.
 
Clifford spoke on the history of the Internet and [...]

Computers in Libraries 2005, Day 0

11am:
I’m sitting in the Chicago O’Hare (thanks, Steve) Airport, waiting for my flight to Washington DC. I’m having an awesome trip so far!
Good stuff:

Good drive through the country this morning while headed to the airport
Seeing the Expedia.com Cafe at KCI - sorta funny!
Having Soul Coughing’s Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago start playing while landing at [...]

10 Things to do at Computers in Libraries 2005

Update 2 - even better list of things to do!
I’ll be presenting at Computers in Libraries 2005 next week, and thought I should give first-timers to the conference a run down of what to do while at the conference:

Attend everything you can - there are so many good topics, presenters, and ideas being shared. You’re [...]

Blogging as a promotion tool

I was just thinking about the topic of this post last night, and then read Michael Stephens post today - he mentions something extremely similar. Bloggers must have a group mentality sometimes.
He apparently spoke with Stephen Abrams, who said “a blogger can have a voice in the LIS blogosphere from the smallest, most remote library [...]

Someone sent me a press release

I must have “arrived” somewhere, because an information company sent me a press release last week, and asked if I could post it on my blog. How cool is that? I can see their contact list now: Library Journal, InfoToday, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and [ahem] Dave’s Blog. Hee!
But it also made me think - [...]

Duke University and Podcasting

OK. Duke University ISN’T podcasting lectures, but they easily could. I was reading an article about their iPod project - take a gander at this quote:
“Lori Leachman, professor of the practice of economics, records her lectures with an iPod and then posts them to a shared server. She said that in her class of 300 [...]

My head is being aggregated

The TeleRead blog is talking about video blogging, and featured the screenshot of my video blog post… so an unexpected outcome of me posting a video blog? My head is now being aggregated…
Thought it was funny… !

Next Generation Library Web Initiatives

InfoCommuner just mentioned a web project that is an absolutely amazing idea.
Definitely read the whole post, but MOST definitely read the part about Project Insect. This project could involve blogs, video, chat, and web pages to interact with and engage library customers.
Wow.

Content Aggregation

Greg at Open Stacks posted a great post about content and podcasting, prompted in part by Michael’s post.
I was chatting with Michael today about a similar topic… and when I read Greg’s post, I thought I’d share some thoughts. Greg supplies some good pointers - here’s the two I want to focus on:
1. If you [...]

David’s First Video Podcast!

I said I might do this… and I have made my threat a reality! I have just done my first video podcast (well, technically, it’s my second one. The first one’s a little silly, and was not posted here :-). Complete with the proper RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures. Of course, you’d need to have [...]

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