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Posts from November 2006

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15 Nov 2006

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ILS Symposium: Art Rhyno, University of Windsor

The Trip so Far – a Journey with the ILS, Art Rhyno – ILS has it’s roots back to 1948, but it came together in the 60s. – the ILS has gotten quite complex, but the ecosystem hasn’t evolved with it – we’re an edge market, we don’t get a lot of attention – not [...]


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15 Nov 2006

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Symposium notes to follow

I’m at a Symposium on the Future of the Integrated Library System in Windsor, Ontario today. The programme (pdf) is amazing and when I walked into the meeting room this morning, I saw a router set up prominently at the front of the room – free wifi! Thanks, Windsor Hilton and University of Windsor! So [...]


calling all special librarians!

I’m going to be on an SLA panel in a couple of weeks to talk about Library 2.0. While I already have a few examples of how special libraries are using 2.0 tools (culled mostly from recent conversations at Internet Librarian — special librarians are doing amazing things!), I thought it would be nice to [...]


thriving with technology

I presented at a conference last Thursday on the topic of “Thriving with Technology” (the conference theme was work/life balance), and while I don’t really believe that technology can help much in the pursuit of work/life balance (and I made sure to utter that disclaimer before I began!), I did have a few tips for [...]


an (already old) article on social bookmarking

Earlier this year, I wrote an article for Feliciter, the magazine of the Canadian Library Association, for a themed issue on libraries and social software. My article, entitled “The Brave New World of Social Bookmarking: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Too Afraid to Ask” (pithy titles are not my strong suit) is [...]




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