Month: October 2006

  • NW IUG 2006

    Thank god, this should be the last of my travel for some time.  Thankfully, this is a local conference — the Northwest Innovative Usergroup.  I’m actually presenting two topics, one related specifically to III’s products and one where I’m going to be doing a little evangelism for open access within our ILS (good luck, I…

  • Goodbye Ottawa

    So for me, Access 2006 has come to a close.  Thank you Ottawa for the night terrors (courtesy of the ghost walk :)), the Art Center, the gorgeous weather (the rain made me feel like home) and a fantastic group of speakers and topics over the past 3 days.  There was Roy’s talk on the…

  • 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…

  • Readex 2006 photos

    So I got a quick email from someone that attended the Readex conference and they let me know that they had posted some pictures onto flickr.  So if you haven’t visited chestire, VT, here you go. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=readex   –TR

  • The library without walls

    Updated: Apparently Live writer truncated my links. I’ve fixed them. Terry Reese, Oregon State University Sorry, no picture and yes, I gave a talk at the Readex conference as well.  I thought it was fairly well received given the topic — though I think it surprised folks as well.  Lots of fun though.  Key quotes…

  • Around the world in 80 documents

    Steven Daniel, Readex Steven’s sessions have become a bit of a tradition at the Digital institute.  Steven’s presentations over the last 3 years have show some of the depth and kind of research that can be done using the Readex serial set.  Actually, I remember talking to him last year after his interesting talk on…

  • Virtual humanities lab and the evolution of online academic communities

    Vika Safrin, Brown University   Vika discussed a project that was very unfamiliar with — apparently, the Virtual Humanities Lab was a two year project supported by the NEH between 04 and 06 to create a platform for collaborative humanities research.  I’d talked with Vika about this project a little bit after her talk.  The…