See You Next Year
Posted by LibConf.com in CIL2008 on 10. Apr, 2008 | Comments Off
CIL 2008 is now history. Plans for next year will soon be underway. Check the Information Today website for dates and location. And if you have a speaking proposal, the Call For Papers will be issued in July. Watch for it. I hope you enjoyed the conference as much as my colleagues and I haveRead the Rest…
More Great Tools
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Steve Cohen can always be counted on to give you a great, humorous, information-packed presentation, and he did not disappoint us. This year, he focused on RSS. You can see all his links on his wiki. He highly recommends Google’s Reader as the best one for RSS, and he’s not alone; it has become theRead the Rest…
Libraries as Happiness Engines
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Is your library in the happiness business? Liz Lawley, director of the Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology, says that libraries are more than just a place—they act as the emotional centers of their communities and places where people can feel happy. In her keynote address on Wednesday, she stressed the funRead the Rest…
Great New Ways to Experience the Library of Congress
Posted by Kathy Dempsey in CIL2008 on 09. Apr, 2008 | Comments Off
The Library of Congress has been closed this week, which was surely disappointing to some CIL attendees who would’ve liked to visit. But it was for good reason: The staff there is busy preparing for a major event this Saturday, April 12. That’s the official launch date for the "Library of Congress Experience," anRead the Rest…
Neat and Nifty Tools for Managing Information
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I always enjoy the tools and gadget sessions at Internet Librarian and CIL that Barbara Fullerton helps put together. They are very fast paced and packed full of wonderfully useful information. At CIL 2008, she teamed up with Roger Skalbeck, a law librarian at Georgetown University Law Library, to put together a review of someRead the Rest…
