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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 [...]

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 [...]

cybertour slides

Just a quick pointer: I did a Cybertour (quickie 15-minute session in the Exhibit Hall) at CiL a couple of days ago and just realized that I hadn’t linked to my slides yet, so here they are. Thank you, Jessamyn, for the PowerPointless layout and stylesheet, it ended up being the perfect solution for such [...]

upcoming presentations & courses

Some looming presentations I’ll be giving and courses I’ll be teaching over the next four months. Plus, of course, Five Weeks starts in four weeks (and there’s already been a flurry of activity on the course blogs!) — can’t wait!

Health Library 2.0: Delivering Web Services with 2.0 Tools, OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 2.
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RSS2S5

If you’re looking to turn your blog into a web-based slideshow presentation, Pascal Van Hecke has a nice little script that will make it happen for you (this was published last Fall, just found it). Simply input your RSS feed and the script converts your last 10 posts into a slideshow using S5, which is [...]