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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this here, although it’s certainly not news: Access 2008 is coming to Hamilton, Ontario this year! In case you didn’t know, Hamilton is home to MPOW and two other fantastic institutions (Hamilton Public Library and Mohawk College), and the three of us are getting together to make Access 2008 many [...]


presentation slides, &c.

Whew, what a week. I’ve been in a tailspin since I got back from Access, which is why I’m just getting around to posting my slides. They’re here (864 KB, pdf), all annotated like I promised. (UPDATE: looks like I uploaded the wrong file, sorry. Here’s the file, with notes this time. You might need [...]


what would you like to know?

If you were planning to attend a presentation on the topic of implementing a search application on an OPAC, what would you like to know?
I’m presenting about our Endeca implementation at Access this week and I’m in the throes of presentation prep at the moment. I think I’ve got most of the good stuff covered [...]


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3 October 2007 @ 9pm

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how I spent my research leave

I was on research leave for four weeks this summer, and I spent my time exploring information architecture, usability, and user experience design. I had good intentions of blogging throughout my leave, both about the topic in specific, and the research leave process in general, but for whatever reason, it didn’t happen. I still have [...]


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3 July 2007 @ 12pm

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Learning 2.0: lessons learned

Our Learning 2.0 programme wrapped up ages ago and I’ve finally gotten around to compiling a list of “lessons learned”. I learned so much from Helene’s collection of best practices that I knew, early on, that it would be important to jot down these notes along the way and compile them into something others could [...]


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