hello SLA2009!

i’m in town for the SLA Centennial Conference. i love the SLA conferences – it’s always wild to meet librarians who work in “non-traditional” gigs. this year i’m on the boards of two divisions – IT and Academic – so i’ll be getting my first glimpse at the inner machinations of things.

more soon!

it’s official: i’m jambina

so facebook has begun offering vanity URLs to folks (’bout time, i know). though i hadn’t planned on staying up ’til 12:01am EST, it turns out that i like air conditioning, beer, and television, and the triumvirate were available tonight in DC.
so once i had decided to get a URL with facebook, i had to decide on the name. amy.buckland? amybuckland? amyb?
in the end i picked “jambina” which has been my online identity for a number of years (except on youtube – dunno who that is).
now it’s never been hard to find out who jambina is, but it’s still a bit jarring that i have now associated that name with my facebook identity.
but i see this as a good thing.
i’m proud of my online identity. i participate in much of the conversation out there, and think that on most occasions, i have something of value to say. [this is the point in the post when i realize that someone out there will find something horrible i have said/done online and post it in the comments. such is life.] so i have no reason to be wary of this jambina/amy link.
i think.
do i?

fun thing: picnik

i am addicted to modifying photos using picnik – especially since every social network requires you to have some kind of avatar for you profile.

picnik is free and doesn’t require you to register (though there are some perks if you do). you can crop and rotate and fix colours (you can even use curves), as usual, but picnik also allows you to add filters to your photos, text, funny pix, and frame things in a bunch of different ways.

so you can make a boring picture like this:

look like this:

(there’s lots more you can do – i just wanted to give you a rough idea. this was cropped, rotated, had the Orton-ish effect applied, speech bubble and text added, and i gave myself a loverly ‘stache.)

my sked at SLA

i’m off to the SLA Centennial Conference in a few days and want to be sure to meet up with folks, so thought i’d post my sked
Saturday, June 13

• 13:00 – help setup SLA Marketplace
• 17:30 – IT Division Board of Directors meeting
• 19:30 – dinner with the IT Board
• 21:00 – Biz & Finance Open House

Sunday, June 14

• 9:00-13:00 – working in the press centre (if you’re a blogger, get yourself a blogger ribbon and come visit!)
• 13:00 – Academic Division Board of Directors meeting
• 17:30 – LSW meetup at RFD (810 Seventh St NW)
• 21:00 – IT Division Mystery Night

Monday, June 15

• 9:00-13:00 – press centre
• 13:30 – SLA Unconference Session #2 (TWEET-UP!)
• 15:00-17:00 – press centre
• 17:30 – Canadialand reception
• 21:00 – IT Division Sci Fi Nigh

Tuesday, June 16

• 9:30 – SLA Unconference Session (Academic Roundtable)
• 11:30 – IT Division Business Meeting
• 13:30 – Academic Division Business Meeting
• 15:00 – press centre
• 21:00 – IT, L&M, PAM Embassy Ball

Wednesday, June 17

• 8:30 – moderating Mashups: Future of Changing Content (Nicole Engard)
• 10:00-13:00 – press centre
• 14:30-17:00 – SLA 2010 Kickoff
• evening: exploring DC

Thursday, June 18

• exploring DC (mebbe some museums n’other cultural funthings) until my mid-afternoon flight home