Category: Web/Tech
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Is this thing on???
I’ve had several people ask what I used to record the sessions at IL2005 – it was an iRiver IFP 790 with an external microphone attached – an Apex 162 which I picked up at a local music store for about $20. I probably captured the audio at too high a bitrate, and even when…
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Audio – Competing with Google: Library Strategies
Did you get the theme of the keynotes at Internet Librarian 2005 year? Here’s the final keynote (endnote?) I recorded – Stephen Abram closing the conference with the topic of Competing with Google: Library Strategies (mp3 about 38 minutes). Stephen usually posts his powerpoints, so I’ll add the link here when it shows up. Very entertaining…
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Audio – Google: Catalyst for Digitization? Or Library Destruction?
Here’s the audio (mp3) of the Wednesday morning keynote at Internet Librarian 2005, in which Rich Wiggins and Roy Tennant debate the merits and perils of Google. Posted with permission of the presenters.
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Full Text AND Free
I met Robert at Internet Librarian last week – he’s got a good page of freely available full text resources at: WOW!–Full Text AND Free?!.
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Social Computing for the Information Professional – Liz Lawley
Here’s the audio for Liz Lawley’s Tuesday AM Keynote at Internet Librarian 2005. This one one where she was going too quickly for me to take notes, so I just sat back and listened (and you can too, as here’s the audio of the talk – 44 minutes mp3). I’m back on my home machine…
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Google-brary- The Status Quo of Tomorrow’s MegaLibrary
Last night’s panel discussion was, for me, worth the trip to California all by itself. Expertely moderated by Stephen Abram, the panel consisted of Mark Sandler, University of Michigan, Rich Wiggins, Michigan State University, Steve Arnold, Arnold Information Technology, Roy Tennant, User Services Architect with the California Digital Library, Adam Smith, Senior Business Product Manager…
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Let down by Keynote
Sherri and I presented today at Internet Librarian, and while the content was delivered well, the flash that we had hoped would do nothing but enhance the presentation actually let us down. We were both on iBooks, and were going to use Keynote (Mac version of PPT) for a few screenshots, and it was going…
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Who links to you?
Remember the good old days when you could trust Google to accurately display who linked to a given page when using the link: syntax? They’ve long ago stopped doing that, opting instead to show you a "representative sample" of incoming links to your site. At yesterday’s Cool Web Tools for Webmasters session, Darlene Fichter mentioned…
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Mobile Learning – where will it take us?
Steve Shafer is the the Library Director at Athabasca University in Alberta, and his presentation is one of the few here at Internet Librarian that specifically mention distance education, so of course I had to attend and blog that one for y’all. Steve started with some background on Athabasca, but then eventually got in to…
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Making a Feed Where None Exists
Ken at RSS4Lib points to a really neat-looking tool called FeedTier that, given a URL, will attempt to create an RSS feed for that page. Coming back from the Access conference another librarian and I were wondering how we could have our electronic reserves readings automagically appear in BlackBoard, and this tool almost does the…