Day 2 was my day to be a conference attendee – no sessions for me today! The day started with an excellent breakfast and a great talk by Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America. Go ahead, click the link and check it out. It’s sort of a Peace Corps for the IT world – a [...]
Lots of driving started off the first day of the NAGW conference. The hotel is about 3 to 3 1/2 hours from my house, so I got up and headed out. I arrived at the hotel shortly after 11 and immediately registered, changed into my NAGW speaker’s shirt and hit the lunch table. The view [...]
I spent last weekend in Idaho. It was my first time visiting and I loved it. The trip started off with an excellent conference put on by the librarians of Southeastern Idaho. Many thanks to Jezmynne Dean of the Portneuf District library and her amazingly talented conference committee for both inviting me out there [...]
Library catalogs were originally built by experts for experts and that doesn’t work for non-experts (patrons). Teach carpentry, not how to use the hammer – we are teaching how to use the hammer (the catalog being the hammer). Start with Why Do We Have A Website? Libraries add friction, we need to reduce the amount [...]
Horizon Report – sets priorities for tech planning in learning organizations Began as an internal environmental scan, grew to a publication for public for Higher Ed, K12 Ed and Museums – they plan to add libraries to that list within 18 months. Tech Outlooks for regional areas (Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, UK, Central Europe, [...]
Sorry – I’m too busy lazy to get the links for all this, but you are smart folks – Google it! **Notations of 2 asterisks are just ones that I plan to get (or have gotten since the presentation). Lots of iPads in the room… Observations – The iPad becomes personal, what works for us won’t [...]
Opening Keynote by Andrew McLaughlin Vice-Pres at Tumblr and former Vice-CTO in Obama’s administration Tech Policy, why it matters to the work we do, why it’s so important for us. 1992- $5,000,000 for a Terabyte, 2011 – $89 Loudcloud in 2000 – 150,000 a month, AWS in 2011 – 1500 a month End to End principle – [...]
Just a warning – I’m going through my notes and posting selected conference sessions here, so after months of inactivity, it’s gonna get busy. For about a day, then I’ll go back to being inactive, I promise…
I’m attending the technical track this morning – Mobile Feast: Reaching Library Customers via Mobile Technology and Can Your Library Provide the Electronic Content That People Want and Need. I’ll just summarize both of them in this post, rather than trying to do two at once. The twitter hashtag for the sessions is #plavss11. Michael [...]
Before the session, I talked to a guy who uses his iPad to manage a lab – insight teacher’s Assistant. Worth a look for our PCC lab. The presentation started with handouts with the step-by-step directions to restrict software in Group Policy. Beth gave an overview of group policy (which we don’t use enough) and [...]