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Posts from February 2006

OLA: The Blog People: Librarians Generating Content and Communication

OLA Super Conference Presenter: Michael Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library I finally got to meet Michael Stephens, after years of reading his blog and admiring his work! I was pretty-well sitting back and enjoying his talk for the most part, so this is mostly summary stuff. Update: Michael’s presentation materials are here. ———— – [...]


OLA: User-Created Content: Is there a Role for it in the Library’s OPAC?

OLA Super Conference Presenter: Beth Jefferson, BiblioCommons Beth worked with Ranganathan’s five principles to frame her talk (which provided great context, but I only got notes on four of them! Bad, bad conblogger). She also worked in some examples of work that’s being done on the Oakville Public Library’s website redesign (which is not live [...]


OLA: Are Libraries Innovative Enough?

OLA Super Conference Presenter: Stephen Abram, Sirsi Dynix A talk by Stephen Abram is seriously difficult to blog! His talks are engaging, entertaining, and provocative, and apart from living in fear of not doing him justice, I also just can’t type that fast. Here are just a few of the nuggets I managed to jot [...]


OLA: Podcasting and Other Tools, Does your Information Service Deliver?

OLA Super Conference Presenter: Doug Horne, University of Guelph Update: Doug’s presentation is available here (ppt). – Interested in user behaviour and how to use it for services – syndication of info is at a pioneering stage – it’s a fad – overblown by the media; misunderstood; content is 90% fluff; based on a cool [...]


OLA: Connections, not Categories: Applying Social Networking Concepts to Information Organization

OLA Super Conference Presenter: M.J. D’Elia, University of Guelph Session focus: – to provide a broader pic of information organization – what’s going on in the non-library world & what we can appropriate for our own uses – where we need to go in the future – blogs, wikis, etc. and libraries – fad or [...]




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