Whoops – this should have been posted a long time ago… We started with discussion of Overdrive and how we all use it. Next up was ILS (Integrated Library System – circulation, cataloging and web OPAC, among other things) versions and many discussions of what ILS we use with lots of complaints about the vendors [...]
At the start of a very long day, I awoke to the sight of some cute ducks on my patio. I blogged pretty heavily about my sessions yesterday, so I won’t go into detail about that. Around the sessions, though, I did a lot of chatting with other library types about a lot of different [...]
It started with Kyle presenting an overview of Overdrive. One question was about the customization options for a library’s OD site. Kyle said it’s pretty customizable. Another question was about using the OD software on public computers. There was discussion of how various libraries manage that. Kara followed with a discussion of the MOLib2go service. [...]
Mark Monroe, from UMSL, started with a discussion of what social media is. He started with Tufts University using YouTube videos as a replacement for application essays – the dean of undergrad admissions didn’t realize how public and followed these applications would be. He talked about other social media missteps, then went into TOS’s of [...]
The Connections conference started with a keynote from SANS about securing the human part of your network. Lance started talking about his background in Info Security, honeypots and work with Sun Microsystems (starting originally with work in tanks in the military). “the simplest way to steal your password is to ask for it – the [...]
I started off the morning with YET ANOTHER fall, this time on my outside steps which were icy, but much shorter than the basement steps I fell down last month. Besides a honkin’ big bruise on my hip, I’m all right. The conference began with a keynote which I’ve already summarized and posted about, so [...]
Geek out – short talks, comments on what’s going on at our orgs, questions to geeks who are doing the same sort of stuff. First – thin apps on VMWare View for virtualized desktops New MS licensing for edu, not sure about libraries Moodle – provisioning second pipe to Morenet to keep from using all [...]
With Steve Massman and Travis Reddick KiwiSyslog and SNARE client as well as Logcheck & other open source utilities. Could get emails every 30 mins that you have to read. Download and read OS security guides! Log everything – everything. Success and failures both. Use 2003 or 2008 and use an existing machine if it’s [...]
Updates I’ve finally gotten around to posting links to the last couple of presentations I’ve done on my Presentations page, as well as the latest information about the Publications I’ve put out (a link to purchase the Library Mashups book and a tentative publishing date for the Twitter/Friendfeed book). Also, I’ve updated the Raves and [...]
David Weinberger, of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, provided our Saturday morning keynote address. He’s the author, by the way, of the Cluetrain Manifesto, which I posted about on the 10th anniversary of that publication on this very blog. He’s going to discuss what happens with knowledge in this age of [...]