Inside ZSR
Sunday afternoon found many WFUers at the LITA top tech trends panel. If you want the full session, notes from it, or the twitter feed, hit the LITA live blog of the event. There were lots of interesting ideas – the impact of the ipad on future client technologies, the impending adoption of e-readers and... more ›
In my days as a thrift store junkie I had an unproven theory about the ability to predict social, economic and fashion trends by shopping at a thrift store. I noticed then that it was common to find multiple identical but otherwise unique items that had been donated to the thrift store at the same... more ›
Join me in congratulating Susan on the debut of the 3rd edition of her book Web based instruction. We found the book at the ALA bookstore this morning! Although I understand the biggest change is the content inside I have to admit that I really liked the cover. 🙂 more ›
Saturday morning found Susan and I heading down to the convention center on the shuttle bus. After a short detour on the bus and some quick steps we found ourselves setting up for my session on cloud computing in libraries. We had an enthusiastic crowd for 8 am and I was happy to see all... more ›
On Wednesday I attended a PDC event on teambuilding. The second part of a three part series, this workshop focused on differentiating a team from a group, went through the stages of team building (Form, Storm, Norm, Perform), and included an interesting discussion on the benefits and perils of generalizing behaviors by generation. As a... more ›
Susan did a great job of summarizing our Educuase experience. Her use of embedded media, contextual links and insightful observation has made my own post little more than an afterthought! Like Susan I was struck at the diverse content of the presentations. I went to a session on virtual computing labs at Georgia Tech. It... more ›
On Monday Molly, Barry and Erik attended the WFU symposium on the future of course materials at Wake Forest from the remote location in the ZSR library. The symposium was run using adobe connect and we were amazed when we saw our own Lynn Sutton introduce the espresso book printing machine. There were lots of... more ›
I know that this is somewhat tangential but I thought that it was interesting. Today I hosted my first webinar as part of the on-line Indexing & abstracting class and it was my pleasure to have (our own) Kaeley McMahan and Mark Schumacher as my two guest speakers. We used Elluminate but there are lots... more ›
One thing I love about Code4Lib – I find out about projects that are complex, neat, well outside my technical expertise range, and every now and then, something that I can’t wait to play around with. I decided to spare everyone the gritty details from Tuesday & Wednesday – if you want to see them... more ›
JP and Erik hit Code4Lib on Monday and started off with attending a pre-conference on Koha. Koha has hit version 3 & includes some interesting serials and acquisitions functionality now. The presenter was Galen Charlton, the programmer who previously helped ZSR on our Meridian implementation. During the break we had an opportunity to chat with... more ›