Challenge met — check out the new IL wiki
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Thanks to conference attendee, Richard Akerman.
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November 20, 2004
Challenge met — check out the new IL wiki November 19, 2004
After a hectic week at Internet Librarian, Monterey CA, I am enjoying a quiet time at my desk! I am also putting together links for the Conference Buzz section of Information Today’s conference web site — check out all the interesting things people have had to say about IL in their blogs! Here is something I want to pursue — a quote from attendee, Richard Ackerman “I personally found it bizarre that there was no unified list of bloggers, no unified RSS feed of IL04 bloggers, and no conference wiki. So blogger friends, how will we create a unified RSS of IL05 Bloggers? Richard, can you assist? What is most disturbing to me is that we have no IL04 wiki. I mentioned it to a couple of people, though some are bummed by wikis because their got wiped out and spammed. I find it most interesting that one of the communities of interest at KMWorld & Intranets, another Information Today conference for which I am privileged to create the content, actually created a wiki before the end of the conference. And these are not librarians! Well it sounds like lots of people had trouble flying out of Monterey CA after the Internet Librarian conference — the fog, it is common to the area but if does put a crimp in flying. Lots of people fly in and out of San Jose or San Francisco airports and drive to and from Monterey — great scenery and less flight problems. Michael Sauers, Travelin’ Librarian, was pretty entrepreneurial and actually got home in advance of his original expectations. Stephen Abram is still in Monterey. And here’s Aaron Schmidt’s comments on the turmoil of derailed travel plans — “the situation back at the hotel involved many upset librarians — as if someone put the card catalog out of order!” November 17, 2004
We’re in the final session. This is nice. Two women presenters, one male. Who says geeks have to be male. Reminds me of the first keynoter who told us, that contrary to popular opinion, lots of young girls are playing computer games. Gadgets, both useful and pseudo useful. Laser pointers, Sony Vaio U70/U50, Tetzl MYO Headlamp (great if you’re in the Marriott when the lights go out as they did the other night), ReAir Duster, ScotteVest, slime controller, beer goggles (simulates what the four stages of intoxication feels like — Stephen just said “There’s four?”), toilet seats? Hmmm. Although this is a big room, holds almost 500 people, yet the atmosphere is free wheeling, interactive, people commenting on what is being said up on stage. That’s symptomatic of the entire conference. It’s been dynamic, exciting, humorous, and instructive. Marydee Ojala Never let it be said that Internet Librarians are slackers. No, these are people who listen to a keynote speech at 9 a.m., after getting their coffee, bagels, and cereal at 8, then head to sessions and the exhibit hall until 5 p.m. Think they’re off partying after that? Well, to be honest, some of us hit the open air street market across from the hotel. If you see him, ask Rich Wiggins about his new hat. But at 7:30 p.m., Internet Librarians are back in the conference room for an evening session, The Devil Dancers’ Panel. When I walked in, Corilee Christou, representing commercial publisher Reed, already had her devil’s horns glowing. Rebecca Lenzini, Charleston Company, had on a bright white, sort of fluffy, halo. Kat Hagedorn, from the University of Michigan’s OAIster project, said she was probably the most angelic of all the panelists. Then there was that devilish yet etheral voice from the speaker phone, Barbara Quint. Was there an answer to the question, “Who’s the real devil here?” Don’t think so. Marydee Ojala There is so much information on the Web these days, how can we keep up? One way most bloggers track what’s new is by subscribing to RSS (really simple syndication)feeds. By subscribing, most often through a web-based aggregator such as Bloglines, a blogger can scrape only the new material from many Web sites and view it very quickly. This process is very simple and very effiecient, and is now leading to what I’m calling ‘feed envy’. Jenny Levine reported that she now subscribes to 230+ feeds to update her blog, The Shifted Librarian, while Steven Cohen subscribes to 400 for to update his blog,Library Stuff, to look for studies to update ResourceShelf, and to keep lawyers in his firm current with happenings in their world . Over cocktails last night with Jenny and Steve and lots of other bloggers, it became apparent that the new challenge is how many feeds you can subscribe to in order to keep up with the changing material on the Web. We decided that Michael Sauers definitely had ‘feed envy’ as he reported that he had to get subscribing to RSS feeds in order to catch up with Steve (he now only subscribes to 80)….. and a new concept is born! Sitting waterside at Cafe Fina on Fisherman’s Wharf with sunny skies and good company at lunch today, we had the wonderful opportunity of watching the Discovery Channel without the TV. Two sea lions caught a gigantic fish which they were trying to devour. We enjoyed their anitcs as they dove and resurfaced many, many times, especially to avoid the sea gulls who were the flies at their picnic. Kayakers came by and waved, cormorants and pelicans observed the scene. Paradise! “There is no reason a library catalog has to look like a list”, says Avi Rappoport of SearchTools.com She recommends the use of faceted metadata to provide customers with the ulimate in customization. Her talk and others from Information Today’s Internet Librarian are available on a conference CD which be purchased from Digital Record . Many presentation slides will also be available at the conference website. November 16, 2004
There’s a whole track on blogs up in the Steinbeck room. First up was Jenny Levine, aka The Shifted Librarian. Her plea was that librarians consider local blogs as an additional news outlet and inform them of upcoming events at the library so they can be posted to the blogs. Great way to bring in younger people. She also urged these announcements not be phrased as “the library is doing this” but rather personalize it to “we are doing this.” Next speaker is Greg Schwartz who’s talking about finding information on blogs. He’s touching on Feedster, Waypath, PubSub, Daypop, PopDex, and Technorati. Screen shots, not live, which is too bad. The blogging crowd is always hugely enthusiastic and I see several people with laptops open. Since I now seem to be able to connect in this room, which I couldn’t yesterday, I hope they’re blogging the sessions of blogging. Marydee Ojala Making Deals was the title of this morning’s keynote by Patricia Martin of LitLamp Communications Group and author of Made Possible By: Succeeding with Sponsorship. A really good presentation style and some excellent pointers for partnerships between libraries and clients, funders, and colleagues. Be entrepreneurial was the main message. Know when to walk away from a deal, don’t undervalue yourself, and avoid information silos were some of the takeways I got. Marydee Ojala |
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