Just another plug for the Mashed Library event, now that the registration page is available! This informal event is a chance to meet others involved in Library Technology and related fields such as metadata, search, etc. Inspired by the Mashed Museums event, the day will give the opportunity for you to discuss ideas, share visions, [...]
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Mashed Library '08
Kudos to Owen Stephens for getting Mashed Library '08 off the ground! According to the mashed library page on ning.com, the event will take place at Birkbeck College, London on Thursday 27th November. ("mash and gravy" by chotda) In the spirit of all things unconferency, the aim is to… …have a reasonably informal event at [...]
ALA 2008
Just in case anyone's not already spotted it, Owen Stephens is doing a fantastic job of blogging ALA 2008. I've been pondering trying to organise a UK library unconference for a while now, but haven't progressed it any further than the "pipe dream" stage. I wonder if I could persuade Kathryn Greenhill to immigrate to [...]
Stuck on a train
The joys of free wifi slightly make up for the fact that I'm stuck on a train that's going nowhere fast — the East Coast main line is suffering long delays due to the train which was ahead of mine managing to damage and bring down the overhead power lines :-S Today was the first [...]
quick conference summary
Graham and Ian have already said many of the things I was planning to say, so just a quickie blog post and I'll try and add more later… A big "thank you" to everyone who was involved in organising the conference — I think it's safe to say it was a huge success. A huge [...]
Southampton – day one
The presentations for day one of the conference have drawn to a close and there's only time for a quick blog post before we all head off for an evening of nautical fun and frolics on the "Three Rivers Cruise". Cross your fingers no-one falls overboard! Unfortunately, for "personal reasons", CEO Gary Rautenstrauch isn't at [...]
Sexy SirsiDynix shenanigans in sunny Southampton
(Well, it'll be sexy in-so-far as I'm including some gratuitous nudity in my session on "RSS and Social Networking" on Thursday. Will I be stripping off and revealing all in the name of "2.0"? You'll have to come along and find out!) I'm currently sat in Manchester Airport, waiting for a budget flight down to [...]
Library and Information Show 2008
A big thank you to everyone who came along to my OPAC session at the Library and Information Show last week! If you're looking for the presentation, it's available on SlideShare (I've finished adding the comments to the slides). During the afternoon, I snapped a few photographs… Owen Stephens has already mentioned the funky "Smartblades" [...]
BBC Breakfast News items about YouTube
I briefly mentioned this item from the BBC Breakfast News during Jane Dysart's session at Online Information 2007… History lessons onlineThree teachers are using the website YouTube to teach history. 60 films have been posted online covering topics such as D-Day, Bloody Sunday, the Slave Trade, Vietnam and Mary Queen of Scots.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/…) The videos are [...]