Another of Information Today’s faculty of speakers, Scott Brandt, has been talking about repositories to the Chronicle of Higher Education. And he’s speaking about “Repositoties & the Digital Librarian” at Internet Librarian, Oct 23-5, in Monterey CA. Not to be missed!

And speaking of CIL07, the call for speakers is online. Our theme this year — Beyond Library 2.0: Building Communities, Connections & Strategies. Look forward to seeing your proposals! Bring ‘em on.

Congratulations, Jenny Levine, Shifted Librarian and valued Information Today conference speaker, on your new position with ALA! Come and hear Jenny speak at Internet Librarian 2006 in Monterey CA, Oct 23-5. And how about a talk on translating world tech trends for libraries at Computers in Libraries 2007, April 16-18, in Crystal City?

Patti Anklam of Hutchinson Associates spoke at SLA in Baltimore this morning about social networking. She talked about the ten steps for doing an organizational network analysis and her new forthcoming book on Net Work.

Dave Pollard gave a great talk at SLA 2006 in Baltimore about tools for harvesting knowledge. Check out his post.

Steve Denning gave a great talk about strategic conversations at SLA 2006 in Baltimore yesterday. Check out his thoughtful slides. Great exercises too and really got everyone going in a 7:30 am session!

I haven’t had much time to read the last little bit and what a treat to read Wired magazine while on a plane today. I already knew from Jeffrey Veen’s blog that Intranets 2005 keynote speaker , Jesse James Garrett, Founder, Adaptive Path & Author, The Elements of User Experience won a Wired Rave Award. There were so many neat things to read about in the June isse of Wired, but especially the article about Harold Varmus, Nobel prize winner and former head of the NIH, and now President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The article talked about how he is trying to make scientific research free and universally available. Open access was a big topic at Information Today conferences not long ago. And it’s great to see the program Varmus had made with Public Library of Science and online journals. Good article.

Check out the Dysart & Jones’ new web design! Thanks to Dave Pellegrin of HybridGenius.