LibConf.com from Information Today

This was a really wonderful, all-encompassing talk by Sean Robinson and Kaye Gregg from the Allen County (IN) Public Library. They had worked together on a cool zombie video that won an InfoTubey award earlier this year, so I was sure they’d know their stuff, and I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve heard others discuss how to [...]

I picked up a copy of the Financial Times yesterday at the FT booth, but didn’t get around to reading it until the session on Twitter was over. It had a special section on "Digital Business" with an article by Peter Whitehead titled "Twitter: another road to ruin." (That link won’t be good forever; it [...]

  The program explained that Pecha Kucha is Japanese for the sound of conversation. The program indicated the ground rules for this fast-paced series of presentations. Each panelist had just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to take a stance about some strategy or technique in libraries. As Greg Schwartz described it – this was “presentation [...]

Adelphi University in New York faced the task of devising a new 3-year strategic plan. It chose PBWiki (www.pbwiki.com) as its tool of choice. (PBWiki took honorable mention in the AIIP Technology Award.) According to Andrew White, it took like 60 seconds to download and install the tool. Why use a wiki? Introduce staff to [...]

Before Tuesday morning’s keynote address, conference chair Jane Dysart turned the podium over briefly to Cindy Shamel, a representative of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP; www.aiip.org). Each year, the AIIP Technology Award goes “to the company whose product best assists independent information professionals with their day-to-day operations in locating, analyzing, organizing, and delivering [...]