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Posts from March 2006

CiL: The Web 2.0 Challenge to Libraries

Paul Miller, Talis Paul is a great speaker — funny, engaging & passionate. He began his presentation with an outline of the four topics he was going to cover: libraries and trust reaching out from the library library 2.0 platform shared innovation Minor aside: the session overview is so crucial. It has the potential to [...]


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24 Mar 2006

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CiL: SMS in Libraries: The Killer Ap?

John Iliff, Palinet John devoted the first half of his presentation to the extent to which SMS (short message service) took the telecom industry by storm (500 billion text messages are sent per year!) and is permeating our culture. Everything from Pam Anderson advertising for Virgin Mobile to viral text campaigns to register young voters, [...]


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24 Mar 2006

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CiL: Virtual Teaching Moments

Clara Hudson, University of Scranton; and me! Again with the poor note-taking since I was up on stage. Clara got our session going by outlining the research she’s been doing with the virtual reference logs for her VR consortium. The part that stood out the most was that her initial assumption, going into the project, [...]


CiL: Online Teaching Skills

Missy Harvey, Carnegie Mellon University Through some unfortunate slip of the back-button, I lost all my notes for this session.  I’m blaming the lack of wifi in the conference rooms — this wouldn’t have happened if I was connected!  The really unfortunate part of this is that Missy presented an excellent session, with all sorts [...]


CiL: Information Literacy & Instruction

Kathleen Stacey, Montgomery College; Chad Boeninger, Ohio University Kathleen discussed the “one-shot” information literacy session and the limitations of such sessions: we have too much information to present so we have to choose what to include and what to leave out. Interesting. I’ve never thought of it that way. For Kathleen, a successful one-shot session [...]




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