State Library Associations and Speaker Fees

There’s an interesting discussion going on right now about speaker fees, registration, and state library conferences. I have faced the same type of thing in the past with the Missouri Library Association.
From the discussion and everyone’s comments, it looks like the common practice is this: if you’re in-state, you’re welcome to speak - but you [...]

Alternative Search Engines List

This, of course, SHOULD be coming from a librarian… but whatever. The Read/Write Web has a great list of alternative (as in, not Google) search engines. It looks like it’s a monthly feature on the blog.
This month includes some cool stuff, like:

FindSounds, an audio search engine
PureVideo, and video search engine
A variety of clustering search engines

And [...]

David’s Current Speaking Schedule for 2007

Here’s where I’m speaking in 2007 (so far - my list is slowly growing this year):

April 12: Wiki Panel. Kansas Tri-Conference.
April 16: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0. Computers in Libraries 2007.
April 17: Guiding Libraries & Info Pros Through Change. Computers in Libraries 2007.
April 19: Podcasting and Videocasting Bootcamp (postconference session with David Free). Computers in [...]

Doing This At Your Local Library

Seth Godin apparently hasn’t visited his local library recently. In a recent blog post, he points to a cool new Amazon service that lets you see which books mention a book you like. Then Seth says “try doing that at the local library…”
Upon reading that, I had a couple of thoughts. My first was the [...]

Non-Library Blogs Meme

I’ve been tagged in this non-library blogs meme thing at least twice now, so I feel I must respond! Here are five of my favorite non-library blogs that I’m reading right now:

Read/WriteWeb - great stuff about web 2.0 and emerging trends. Tends to go more in-depth than other emerging trend blogs, which I like.
Daily Dilbert [...]

Teaching Managers about Emerging Trends

Here’s something I’m doing at my library right now, and thought I’d share. The managers at my library meet every week (I’m a manager, too). Part of that weekly meeting is “my time.” We’ve been calling it simply “Cool Stuff” - I usually do a short presentation on a Web 2.0 product or concept, or [...]

Becoming a Technology Agnostic

I recently read an article about technology change on Lucas McDonnell’s unCommon Knowledge blog. This is definitely worth a read - especially for IT managers and IT departments.
Why? Lucas says this: “the increasing pace of technology change requires us to be more innovative in how we both adopt and maintain technologies,” and then provides some [...]

Library Journal Movers and Shakers List is Out

Congratulations to all the 2007 Movers and Shakers! I actually know four of them: Michael Casey, Helene Blowers, Amanda Etches-Johnson, and Gina Millsap (my library’s director - how cool is that?).
Way to go, everyone! It’s always great to work with, speak with, and blog with such awesome people.

SirsiDynix is Building Rome

Update: Here’s a link to the official press release.
You might have seen some posts about Sirsi/Dynix here, here and here… well, they sent an email out to SirsiDynix customers - here’s the email (I’m assuming this will resemble the press release that’s supposed to be released later on today):

Dear valued SirsiDynix customer,

 

Later today, SirsiDynix will [...]

SirsiDynix is Building Rome

You might have seen some posts about Sirsi/Dynix here, here and here… well, they sent an email out to SirsiDynix customers - here’s the email (I’m assuming this will resemble the press release that’s supposed to be released later on today):

Dear valued SirsiDynix
customer,
 
Later today, SirsiDynix will make an
exciting announcement for both our company and the [...]

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