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Traveling for Business & Pleasure
These two weeks see me traveling to both Charleston, SC, and Washington, DC. Pleasure in Charleston, SC I was in Charleston to visit one of my closest friends, who I haven't seen in way too long. In...
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CIL2007 Sunday & Monday
A coworker of mine and I are in Washington, DC, this week for the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference. So far, I’ve been to just three sessions (and some sightseeing), and it’s already worth the...
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CIL2007 Tuesday
Even though cil2007 has already been going on for two days, today felt like things really got started. I ended up spending as much time in the exhibit hall as in the sessions, talking to vendors and...
View ArticleCIL2007 Wednesday – Catalogs/OPACs for the Future
On the final day of cil2007, most of the workshops I attended ending up having a common theme – tailoring library services to patrons needs, based on patron input. The first of these sessions was...
View ArticleCIL2007 Wednesday – Improving Content through Conversations with Customers
The second session in the "tailoring library services to patrons needs, based on patron input" theme was "Improving Content through Conversations with Customers," led by Rich Wiggins from Michigan...
View ArticleCIL2007 Wednesday – Federated Searching
The final session in the "tailoring library services to patrons needs, based on patron input" theme was on Federated Searching, led by Frank Cervone (Northwestern Univ.) and Jeff Wisniewski (Univ. of...
View ArticleCIL2007 Wednesday – 30 Search Tips in 45 Minutes
Another session I attended during the day were Mary Ellen Bates' "30 Search Tips in 45 Minutes," and she wasn't kidding. Mainly she pointed out relatively unknown or underused search tools, and some of...
View ArticleCIL2007 Wednesday – Tech Freebies & Program Ideas
The last session of the day was called "Tech Freebies & Program Ideas," given by people from different libraries covering successes they've had with technology-related programs in their libraries....
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Standing on the Keyboards of Giants
During Jessamyn's Pimp My Firefox talk at cil2007, something occurred to me. So much of the code used on websites today was written by someone else - themes, rss feeds, widgets, etc. I think this is...
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