Ah, good ol’ Kansas! It’s cold, gray and rainy, just like October should be. The perfect weather to reflect upon my first professional, out of state, big-time conference. Not counting the keynote speech from J.A. Jance (which was interesting, funny and surreal), I started the conference off listening to Paul Miller from Talis talk about [...]
Karen G. Schneider wasn’t at Internet Librarian, so I still haven’t gotten a chance to meet her in person. That makes me sad. But she made a video and posted it on YouTube, sending a greeting to a bunch of IL bloggers, including myself! That makes me very happy.
I’m getting ready to check out of my motel and head off to the airport. My time here in Monterey has been fantastic. So many good conference sessions, so many good conversations, so many interesting and enthusiastic and clever people met. I changed my page on the IL2006 wiki to show what sessions I attended [...]
If nothing else, coming to Monterey for Internet Librarian was worth it to sit in a pub and hear Stephen Abram‘s story of attending a library conference in the same building as a porn convention. And to participate in an emotional, energetic, alcohol-fueled discussion with Stephen and some fellow young librarians about libraries, librarians, and [...]
My time here at Internet Librarian has been toetappingly fantastic. My head is all a’buzz with theories and practical things to do. Rather than long posts trying to sum everything up, I’ll be making shorter posts about the stuff I’ve heard and done and been thinking about. EDIT: Okay, so I changed my mind and [...]
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