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Category Archives: Talks and Tours

Death to Jargon

One-hour OPAL presentation (online) for system in Wisconsin. Bookmark to:

Symposium on the Future of the ILS

Lincoln Trails Library System, Champaign, IL (hello, alma mater!). I’m giving a talk and then I’m talking to trustees on Saturday. I hope I can see GSLIS… and a couple of friends in the area! Bookmark to:

ASERL Presentation: Reclaiming the Heartland

’tis a bit oblique without my voiceover, but gives you some idea of what I discussed at ASERL‘s “Age of Discovery” conference yesterday. (For example, it doesn’t include my explanation that after Dewey and Cutter had a fallout, Dewey got the big numbers and Cutter got the small ones.) Bookmark to:

Upcoming talks and presentations

Here’s what’s firm or nearly firm… a fun range! July 19: Closing Keynote: “Focusing on Users,” ASERL “New Age of Discovery” Institute September 14  & 15: Symposium on the Future of Integrated Library Systems, presentation and trustee talk, Lincoln Trails Library System, Champaign, IL October 11: “Death to Jargon” one-hour online presentation (contract pending) October […]

NASIG 2007 Presentation: State of Emergency

By popular demand (um… all two of you), here’s the talk I gave at NASIG 2007, uploaded to slideshare.net so I could, you know, easily share it! Bon appetit. Bookmark to:

NASIG Presentation

locksscat Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian The talk went great at NASIG, and I even got an honorarium (which I initially didn’t think I would be getting, maybe because I routinely turn them down if I’m working for an institution, as I was when I accepted this talk). I didn’t get a thousand requests to upload […]

SEFLIN Board Talk

SEFLIN Board Talk Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. A happy and engaged crowd! I used this picture, taken with my Treo, to demonstrate uploading to Flickr from a cell phone, and then blogging from Flickr. Bookmark to:

SEFLIN Presentation, Links and all that

On Thursday, May 10, in West Palm Beach, Florida, I have had a two-hour presentation with the SEFLIN board about social software. Here is the “virtual handout” of related links and bits of things useful after the talk. [updated 5-10, 5-11.] This presentation, to start with. (It’s in PowerPoint. Updated 5-11.) Blogs, IM and SMS, […]

LOCKSS, Stock, and Keynote

I’ve uploaded my Code4Lib 2007 Keynote. Has it really been almost a week? I spent Sunday afternoon listening to podcasts while my old Honda Civic purred its way to Atlanta, depositing me at the Hotel Indigo, which was, indeed, all indigo and crisp white, with delightful staff and a Jack Russell terrier snoozing in a […]

Presentation: Blogs: Not Just Another Ugly Neologism

This is a “virtual handout” for a presentation to the University of the Pacific, October 19, 2005, Stockton, California. It has been updated and expanded from a presentation to the CARL North Information Technology Interest Group, August 12, 2005, at the MLK Library in San Jose, California. What’s a Blog, Anyway? A blog is a […]