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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Conferences
Library 101
The Library 101 video debuted today at the Internet Librarian conference. Created by Michael Porter (a.k.a. Libraryman) and David Lee King, the video is a foot-tapping, library-rocking tour-de-force. Clear the next eight minutes in your schedule, put on some headphones, … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, Photography, Promotions, Video
Tagged Branson, David Lee King, Internet Librarian, Libraries, Library 101, Michael Porter, Technology/Internet, Video
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punypng
punypng is a great service for those who work with the .png image format. If you work on web sites, presentations, or other projects that involve image files, this is really worth adding to your toolkit. What it does is … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Presenting, Software, Web Design
Tagged Image file formats, Online Services, presentations, punypng, Technology/Internet, Web Design
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OLC Cancels Conference
The Ohio Library Council has announced that they are canceling their annual conference due to low expectations of attendance. The organization surveyed library directors throughout Ohio and determined that most libraries simply don’t have the funds to participate. Is this … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Presenting, Training, Workshop
Tagged ALA, American Library Association, Conferences, Libraries, Ohio, Ohio Library Council, Presenting
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Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English
Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English is a collection of presentations, all striving to describe the next phase of web activity and development. If all you look at is the single slide that sums up the differences between the … Continue reading
Posted in Presenting, Web Design
Tagged Library 2.0, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, web activity, Web Design, web generations
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More Elsevier Questions
Was the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine incident an isolated case, or is it the first of several Elsevier journals that only appear to be legit? Michael Hansen, CEO Of Elsevier’s Health Sciences Division, issued a statement today … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Ethics, Medical, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, Australia, Bill Hooker, CEO, Director, Elsevier, Elsevier Inc, Excerpta Medica, Google, Hester Kuipers, Jonathan Rochkind, Medical Communications for Exerpta Medica, Michael Hansen, Of Elsevier's Health Sciences Division, pharmaceutical clients, Program Director
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Print vs. Electronic
Notes from last month’s OLE (Open Library Environment) Regional Workshop are on LibShare, and they are interesting to scan through, especially the comments. I found this through the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog, and looked into it because of two … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Conferences, Education, Libraries, Library 2.0, Training
Tagged OLE, Open Library Environment
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Library Related Conferences
Marian Dworaczek has moved her Library Related Conferences website, so make a note of it. If you haven’t seen her listing, check it out. If you know of any conferences that aren’t on her list, let her know! found via … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Workshop
Tagged Conferences, Libraries, Marian Dworaczek
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Perfecting Imperfection
Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection is, on one level, responding to a post by someone who attended an unconference about Drupal, calling it “by far the most human conference I’d ever been to.” On a deeper level, however, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0
Tagged Drupal, Eric Raymond, library technology, Linus Torvalds, Linus's Law, unconference
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Zotero 1.5
Zotero 1.5 Beta has been released! When I attended OneBigLibrary Unconference last summer, Trevor Owens gave a talk (un-talk?) on this version of Zotero and some of the new features and ideas that would be part of it (my post … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, onebiglibrary, Online Services, Open Source, Software
Tagged beta, library services;, library software, onebiglibrary, Peter Murray, Trevor Owens, Zotero
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Walden Media’s ALA Conference Contest
From the entry form: Walden Media wants to send YOU to the American Library Association’s Annual Conference! Enter below for a chance to win a trip for YOU and one GUEST including: Roundtrip Airfare to Chicago Ground Transportation Six nights … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries
Tagged ALA Conference, American Library Association, contest, Hotel Conference Fees, USD, Walden Media
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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 2)
continued from here… Evergreen and Project Conifer (John Fink) was a progress report / Q&A session about the installation of the Evergreen ILS for a consortium of academic libraries (McMaster University, University of Windsor, and Laurentian University). John gave a … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, onebiglibrary, Open Source, Presenting, Software
Tagged API, bibliographic systems, David Fiander, Evergreen ILS, Facebook, Geoff Sinclair, Google, John Fink, John Miedema, Laurentian University, McMaster University, meta-search tools, neat library technology, onebiglibrary, Open Library, search tools, Stacy, Toronto, University of Windsor, William
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One Big Library Unconference Report (part 1)
Previous posts here and here… I attended the One Big Library Unconference (Facebook too) last Friday, and haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, so here goes: I arrived in Toronto around 7 p.m. on Thursday after a … Continue reading
One Big Library Unconference
I will definitely be attending the One Big Library Unconference next month in Toronto! I am enthusiastic about this, as it has been nearly a year since I have attended a conference, and I have been very curious about the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, onebiglibrary, Travel, Workshop
Tagged Facebook, onebiglibrary, Toronto
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Google for Non-Profits
Google has packaged many of its tools into an offering for non-profit organizations. If your group has a 501(c)(3) tax status, and is not political or religious in nature, then you most likely qualify. This is fairly neat. I worked … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Google, Groups, Libraries, Online Services, RFS
Tagged communication tools, free advertising, Google, Official, online workspace
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Code4lib 2009 may be in Columbus
Columbus is an exciting town when you are interested in libraries. This was driven home by the Code4lib Conference Proposal : Columbus, OH page of Roy Tennant’s website. Take a look, and see if you agree. The Code4Lib Conference has … Continue reading
Rethinking the Catalogue
Rethinking the Catalogue (pdf) is a paper that was delivered to the Innovative Ideas Forum in Australia by Alison Dellit and Kent Fitch. It presents another perspective on the state of library catalogues, and how we can go about improving them. from Resource Shelf … Continue reading
Library 2.0 : Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond
Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond : Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content. (PowerPoint) (Handout) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Data format: RSS, RDF, Atom, etc. data interchange (sharing) : syndication – think of what … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged Adobe, blog
software, Browser, Computer, Google, html, Ken Varnum, Perl, php, Reuters, Ruby, search databases, web
web page, web web page, webblog software, Yahoo
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Library 2.0 : Brian Mathews – Social Computing
Brian Mathews – Social Computing When do we reach Library 2.0? No final destination; no “library 2.0″ finishing point: it’s an evolving picture. Sisyphus analogy: it’s not what you do when rolling the rock up the hill, it’s what you … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007
Tagged Brian Mathews, campus social computing groups, distance learning, Google, social networks
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Library 2.0 : Chad Boeninger – Wikis in Libraries
Chad Boeninger – Wikis in Libraries : Enhancing Services, Promoting Sources, and Building Community (Powerpoint) Chad started off with a show of hands – what type of librarian’s were in the audience, including media specialists. He went on to define … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007
Tagged Chad Boeninger, Choose software, html, media specialists, Ohio University, php, Scholarly software, Their library
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Library 2.0 : Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World
Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World : Hidden Treasure or Just More Pressure? (Powerpoint) (Handout) The title is adapted from It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the “epic comedy” film from 1963. He … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged 2.0 technology, American Libraries;, Charles Deering, Charles Deering McCormick University, Chris Anderson, David Bishop, David Lee King, Evanston, find technology, frantic search, Illinois, Instant Messaging, Jim Carroll, librarian, Library 2.0, library director, library tool, Northwestern University, problems needing solutions, staff using technology, Steven Bell, Wired;
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