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back in LIS land

I’m teaching my LIS course (”Social Software and Libraries”) again this summer and the term starts on Monday. I’ve spent most of the past couple of weeks tuning up the blog, updating the syllabus, working on the assignments & due dates, and figuring out how to archive last year’s course blog/site, while updating it [...]

WNY/O ACRL Fall Conference

I’m at the ACRL Western New York/Ontario chapter’s Fall conference today. I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on emerging technologies and 2.0 later this morning and I’m using this post as a placeholder for a bunch of academic library 2.0 examples I’d like to highlight if I get the chance (I have to remember [...]

participants! participants are what we need!

That’s right, Five Weeks to a Social Library is now accepting applications for particpants! Here’s the what’s what:

info about the course is here
the preliminary program of stellar presenters is here
the participant application is here
the deadline for participant applications is December 1, 2006

Questions? Get in touch with us at sociallibrary AT gmail DOT com!

quick reminder…

Today is the last day to put in your proposal for Five Weeks to a Social Library!
If you have any practical examples of social tools at work in your library, consider putting in a proposal to share your experience and ideas with others who might be able to benefit from them. More details on [...]

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 [...]