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MLA plenary

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I was fortunate enough to be a part of the closing plenary at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting last week. David Rothman, Melissa Rethlefsen, Bart Ragon and I presented on Web 2.0 tools and participated in a panel discussion (with Mark Funk, awesome MLA past president) after the [...]

growing the community

I have an embarassment of posts-in-draft to share, but alas, I probably won’t get to them for a few more weeks as this mess of activity keeps me occupied. I did want to pop in to say hello (hello!) and that my LIS course started last week and that we hit the ground running and [...]

state of the library blogosphere, 2006

Michael Stephens emailed me a few days ago asking about the number of public library blogs on the wiki. I did a quick copy & paste into Excel, some fast arithmetic, and sent some rough totals his way. We were both blown away by the numbers (I think the word “hot” might have been mentioned, [...]

STLHE: Implementing large-scale blogging systems at universities

Session Title: Implementing large-scale blogging systems at universities: facilitating collaborative writing scholarly learning communities
Presenters: Rochelle Mazar, University of Toronto at Mississauga & Jason Nolan, Ryerson University [paper abstract]
Another session with scattered notes, but mostly because I was just sucked right into the energy Rochelle & Jason generated for the topic! They did a great tag-team [...]

wikified

Over the past few months, I’ve been debating the future of the list of blogging libraries I maintain on this site. For me, the two crucial questions that needed answering were: is the list still valuable and are people using it? Just as I was about to pose those questions here, I received a small [...]