LibConf.com from Information Today

The closing session featured a Bluff the Internet Librarian game, modeled on NPR’s Wait Wait don’t tell me. Aaron Schmidt introduces game host Jenny Levine. The panel is Megan Fox, Barbara Fullerton, and Joe Murphy. Each panelists tells a story about a new gadget and the librarian has to decide which is true and which [...]

Drupal is a popular open source content management system for websites that is being used for a wide variety of applications.  In the library world, it has been used for Intranets and even public websites.  Angela Boyd and Karen Coombs talked about some of their experiences with Drupal. Angela described Project Drupal at the University of California [...]

Nicole Engard, author of Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (published by ITI), reviewed the current state of the art and showed us some great examples of mashups, and even did a live demonstration to create one.  One of her favorite sites is ProgrammableWeb, which has lots of mashup examples. Nicole’s reasons [...]

The Connecting Through Lights, Cameras & Action session started with Allen County (Fort Wayne, Indiana) public library’s Sean Robinson showing a video he made, called Vade Mecum, about a woman becoming engrossed in a book by Amy Tan. It has a happy ending.
Next up is Michael Porter and David Lee King showing their Library 101 video. They’ve got a Facebook page for Library 101 that has 1800 fans from 17 different countries. Over 6000 images were submitted. They want this to be an example of what librarians can do with little effort and minor money. Pretty amazing rock video. Check out libraryman.com/library101 and davidleeking.com. Lyrics are on the libraryman site.

How to function in tough times was certainly a major theme at the conference. And the ideas and tips from many presenters were well received by the many librarians struggling to cope with tighter budgets and restrictions of all kinds. Peter Jasco, a well-known expert reviewer of abstracting and indexing databases gave his suggestions for [...]