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The first InfoTubey awards were extremely well received, and the second ones tonight were no less popular.  The InfoTubey awards recognize excellence in library-related videos.  The videos were required to demonstrate marketing or innovation, demonstrate the library’s services, or convey the value of the library to the community.   ITI’s VP of Technology, Bill ("InfoDiddy") Spence, [...]

To warm up for tonight’s InfoTubey Awards gala, I just attended a session called Video, YouTube, and Libraries. One presenter was Nick Baker, who won one of last year’s inagural InfoTubies. The other was Karen McBride from Des Plaines PL.   These tidbits were among the advice Karen offered to beginning videographers: Don’t worry about [...]

My talk yesterday on Searching, Finding and the Information Professional was surprisingly crowded, given the other very strong sessions happening concurrently with mine. If I could have cloned myself, I would have been in multiple rooms that afternoon. My basic points were that our clients think about searchability and findability differently than we info pros [...]

You do not want to miss the new evening session that will happen tonight! Come to the Regency Ballroom at 7:30 to see which libraries won awards for their YouTube videos.  Be ready for some great laughs–and a few surprises! Kathy Dempsey Editor-in-Chief, Computers in Libraries