Day: October 13, 2006

  • Access 2006, Day 2

    Sadly, I think I’m starting to wear down a little bit from all the travel this month.  Morning sessions (and morning bike ride) — great.  But its 5:30 now and I’m definitely tired.  If it wasn’t for the Ghost Walk, and a chance to chat with a few folks tonight, I’d probably just grab my…

  • Hackfest 2006

    So this has been my first year attending the hackfest and my first impressions has been, pretty cool.  Hackfest, for those that weren’t able to attend or have never attended, is a social outing (my opinion) that brings together a number of folks interested in technology to address a group of common problems within libraries. …

  • Roy Tennant: The "Last Mile" Problem

    “Last Mile” Problem: Libraries are better at description than delivery We’ve rested on our past successes (library automation, conversion) Too many clicks — it takes too many clicks to get users from the search to the digital resources.  (one click to search, one click to get) Roy makes a great point.  In demonstrating how many…

  • Catching up

    Ha.  Dan called me on it yesterday after finally posting a link to some pictures from my Readex trip.  One conference behind…Ugh.  Like many, I’m in Ottawa right now hanging out with our cool neighbors to the north and some carpetbaggers from the south playing at hackfest and checking out some presentations with a very…