Archive for the ‘innovation’ category
Friday, October 23rd, 2009

heading to Monterey today to attend Internet Librarian. not only do i get to catch up with my friends, but i get to hear about all the awesome ways libraryland is taking advantage of the web to better meet the needs of library uses.
tomorrow is the first ever LibraryCamp at IL and i’m really looking [...]

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by kendrak
Internet Librarian is holding it’s first unconference/library camp/barcamp session – and you should be there!
Jenica Rogers and i will be facilitating Library Camp Monterey, the morning of October 24, 2009 in the Monterey Public Library, and we’d be thrilled to have all of you join us.
This will be an [...]

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

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!
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

there are still spots available for the ETIG library camp this coming May 29, 2009 in Montreal (hosted at my loverly place of work – McGill Unversity).
so come hang out with Jessamyn West, John Fink, Jason Hammond, and a bunch of other really awesome folks for one day.
it’s cheap (40$).
we’re going to talk about fun [...]

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

just arrived at CiL after a pretty bumpy ride on what must have been air canada’s teeniest plane.
off to a good start as i finally got to meet the awesome Karen Schneider while waiting for our shuttle to the hyatt.
this time last year, i was still in school and decided, on one crazy afternoon, to [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

it’s Ada Lovelace Day (go read about her, i’ll wait) and i (along with 1694 other folk) pledged to blog about a tech heroine. so i started doing some research. then more research. and though i did uncover a lot of awesome women who have done amazing things, none of them  were just right.
and then [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

this story came through my RSS reader courtesy of the lovely Sarah Hougthon-Jan (the Librarian in Black).
last summer the folks at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre created a team to address innovation within the organization. the results of the analysis were presented in the form of a video, which was shown to managers last month. one [...]

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