LibConf.com from Information Today

As suggested by Kathy Dempsey, author of The Accidental Library Marketer, here is a collection of Wordles based on the final program for each of the Internet Librarian conferences from 1997 to 2009.

Going back in time for this information was like an archeological dig through the the history of web development all the way back to the days before CSS and to when ITI hand coded the entire program in plain HTML.

When it comes to working with data on the web, there were no “good old days” to look back on with fondness in my opinion.

To read other blog coverage and see some great photos, use the "IL05" tag in Technorati and Flickr. Or click through the blogs of more than 20 bloggers who reported on the conference. To help you review what you learned at the conference, Bill Spence, our CTO, has already posted a few speakers’ presentations on [...]

Hundreds of Internet librarians returned to offices around the country this week, energized and challenged by what we heard at Internet Librarian 2005. It’s impossible to capture the conference buzz in a few short notes (you’ll have to read this blog and all the others for that), but here are just a few random stand-out [...]

Just noticed that a continuing discussion on the topic of "the long tail", mentioned by our Internet Librarian 2005 keynote speakers Lee Raine and Liz Lawley, is happening online at the Long-Tail Camp. Chris Anderson’s article in Wired started the long tail discussions and now he has a blog on the topic and has a [...]

The Monterey Airport was the place to be at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday morning following the conclusion of Internet Librarian 2005! As the long lines snaked toward the check-in counters and then security, waiting librarians mused about how much more quickly things might move if people who really know how to organize things were in [...]