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B106 – Public Library Issues & Reflections
Enjoy this roundtable session from Monday, October 20, 2008. The session was described as “Join the day’s speakers for an interactive, round-robin, expert response session with plenty of audience Q&A! Reflect on the day’s insights and ideas and share your thoughts with colleagues.” Listen in to this Q&A session that may be even more relevant now than it was in 2008.

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.

The ITI blog team has enjoyed bringing you the news and happenings of IL 2008, and we look forward to seeing you next year. Don Hawkins Columnist, Information Today and IL 2008 Blog Coordinator

We are used to tuning up our cars, but did you know that your web site can be tuned up too?  Jeff Wisnewski from the University of Pittsburgh presented 35 fast and easy tuneups for web sites.  You can see the details on his slides. Don Hawkins Columnist, Information Today and IL 2008 Blog Coordinator

At 3:45 Wednesday afternoon, a big group of hard-core conference-goers settled into the comfortable Steinbeck Forum for Internet Librarian’s closing keynote. Once again, Liz Lawley, director of RIT’s Lab for Social Computing, delivered the show’s final thoughts. Her topic was Learning and Play in a Social and Mobile World, and she talked about lots of gadgets, [...]