"Self-plagiarism is style"

We only got back from Barcelona 3 days ago and already it seems more like it was 3 weeks ago. There's nothing like 400 unread emails in your inbox to make you forget about what you were doing the week before!!!

For those of you who enjoy looking at holiday photographs, there's nearly 400 of mine on Flickr, or you can find all the conference photos here. Tim from Birkbeck has also been adding Barcelona photos to Flickr. Tim's head also appears in this serendipity photograph taken late on the Wednesday evening in a random bar — someone's (maybe Chris from Lincoln?) hand got in the way and I can almost here a voice saying "I will crush you!" in the background :-D

The 4 presentations I took part in are available at: http://library.hud.ac.uk/barcelona

The list of Library 2.0 examples used in the Web 2.0 session is:

• Ball State University, Indiana (student blogs)
• La Crosse Public Library, Wisconsin (instant messaging widget)
• University of Alberta Libraries, Canada (RSS feeds)
• Westmont Public Library, Illinois (Flickr)
• Stevens County Rural Library, Washington (wiki)
• University of Huddersfield, UK (electronic resources wiki)
• Biblioteksvar, Norway (IM and SMS reference)
• Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois (blog for local history)
• Thomas Ford Memorial Library, Illinois (Flickr and gaming evenings)
• University of Worcester, UK (library blog)
• Dowling College Library, New York (podcasts)
• Cheshire Public Library, Connecticut (podcasts)
• Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Public Library (Learning 2.0 staff programme)
• Glasgow University Library (podcasts)
• Hartlepool Borough Council Libraries (podcasts)
• University of Northampton Library (library blog)
• Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas (MySpace)
• Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas (library blog)
• McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky (YouTube)
• St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana (YouTube)
• Ann Arbor District Library, Michigan (library blog and a whole lot more!)
• Info Island (Second Life)
• Virtual librariesinteract.info (Second Life)
• Library Success Wiki
• Library 2.0 Community at ning.com

…phew — hopefully there was something of interest in that little lot! I'm sure were at least a hundred more examples I could have included and, if you've got a good one, please post a comment with the details :-)

The plan is to gather together all of the presentations from the conference and add them to the wiki. It's currently branded the "Dynix User Group UK" wiki but, once the various European User Groups start to come together, I'm sure it will get a more generic title — I quite like SLUG (SirsiDynix Libraries User Group), although that's quite similar to SMUG (SFX & MetaLib User Group).

Don't forget, if you're a SirsiDynix library in the north of England (Unicorn, Dynix, or Horizon), there's a meeting at the University of Bradford on May 17th. A trip to the (in)famous Kashmir Restaurant for a curry is on the cards for those who attend :-)

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