Neuroscience
Interested in new technology and its application? LITA (ALA's Library and Information Technology Association group) blogged its way throug the ALA Annual Meeting. Their blog is at http://litablog.org/ , where you can read what people think about hot technology and its application in libraries.
Roy Tennant, library guru of technology & user services, posted a nice summary of (some) topics to his Current Cites list. This is what he says:
LITA's new weblog has blasted off in a big way with extensive coverage of the American Library Association's recent annual conference. ... Here are some sample postings from the 80+ postings that currently available: "Eric Lease Morgan's Top Technology Trends, 2005"; "Giving Them 'Google-Like' Searching"; "Greenstone Digital Libraries: Installation to Production"; "Karen's Uber-Trend"; "Leo Klein's Top Technology Trends"; "LITA President's Program (Take Dos)"; "Marshall Breeding's Top Technology Trends"; "Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Libraries: Meeting with the RFID Experts"; "Tennant's Top Tech Trend Tidbit"; "Thomas Dowling's Non-Trends from the Trailing Edge"; and "Using Usage Data."
- Event I *will* Attend
Next Generation Library Catalogs Wednesday, November 7, 2007 1:00 - 4:00pm University of Massachusetts, Amherst Campus Center Auditorium As a library’s key database and the one system with which most users interact, the online library catalog has been...
- "connected But Hassled"
Those awesome folks at the Pew Internet & American Life Project have a new report out called A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, in which they say "half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry,...
- Access (canada) Podcasts Online
"The Access Conference is the pre-eminent Canadian library technology conference and typically attracts librarians and information technology professionals from all over Canada, and in recent years the United States and even Europe." said Randy Reichardt...
- Library Journal On L!brary 2.0
Two good articles in the Oct. 15, 2006 issue of netConnect, Library Journal's quarterly technology supplement. 1. Design Speaks by Dorothea Salo. "These are the messages conveyed by the design of most library services and buildings: 'We are not...
- Crossing The Chasm: From Cutting Edge To Practical Application
[shameless self-promotion] I’m going to speak at the Capital District Library Council in Albany about practical applications of emerging technologies on April 24. I’ll review some of LITA’s Top Technology Trends, discuss blogs (applications for...
Neuroscience
Happenin' Technology
Interested in new technology and its application? LITA (ALA's Library and Information Technology Association group) blogged its way throug the ALA Annual Meeting. Their blog is at http://litablog.org/ , where you can read what people think about hot technology and its application in libraries.
Roy Tennant, library guru of technology & user services, posted a nice summary of (some) topics to his Current Cites list. This is what he says:
LITA's new weblog has blasted off in a big way with extensive coverage of the American Library Association's recent annual conference. ... Here are some sample postings from the 80+ postings that currently available: "Eric Lease Morgan's Top Technology Trends, 2005"; "Giving Them 'Google-Like' Searching"; "Greenstone Digital Libraries: Installation to Production"; "Karen's Uber-Trend"; "Leo Klein's Top Technology Trends"; "LITA President's Program (Take Dos)"; "Marshall Breeding's Top Technology Trends"; "Radio Frequency Identification Technology in Libraries: Meeting with the RFID Experts"; "Tennant's Top Tech Trend Tidbit"; "Thomas Dowling's Non-Trends from the Trailing Edge"; and "Using Usage Data."
- Event I *will* Attend
Next Generation Library Catalogs Wednesday, November 7, 2007 1:00 - 4:00pm University of Massachusetts, Amherst Campus Center Auditorium As a library’s key database and the one system with which most users interact, the online library catalog has been...
- "connected But Hassled"
Those awesome folks at the Pew Internet & American Life Project have a new report out called A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, in which they say "half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry,...
- Access (canada) Podcasts Online
"The Access Conference is the pre-eminent Canadian library technology conference and typically attracts librarians and information technology professionals from all over Canada, and in recent years the United States and even Europe." said Randy Reichardt...
- Library Journal On L!brary 2.0
Two good articles in the Oct. 15, 2006 issue of netConnect, Library Journal's quarterly technology supplement. 1. Design Speaks by Dorothea Salo. "These are the messages conveyed by the design of most library services and buildings: 'We are not...
- Crossing The Chasm: From Cutting Edge To Practical Application
[shameless self-promotion] I’m going to speak at the Capital District Library Council in Albany about practical applications of emerging technologies on April 24. I’ll review some of LITA’s Top Technology Trends, discuss blogs (applications for...