IL2008 notes
I’ve published the notes I took at Internet Librarian 2008 as a Google doc. I promise I’ll do some more thinking and writing on the topic once I get some freelancing stuff out of the way this week.
Spam
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IL2008 things
I’ll be posting my unadulterated notes today, I hope, but in the meantime, here are some things to tide you over.
Addendum: I suppose in light of sharing the conference itinerary, it might be helpful for me to say what sessions I attended.
Sunday Workshops
Monday Sessions
Track A: Information Discovery & Search
Track B: Outreach & Marketing Public Libraries in a 2.0 World
Track C: Web Design
Track D: Digital Libraries
- Keynote: Communities & Communication in a Social & Mobile World
- C101: Designing the Digital Experience
- A102: Searching Conversations: Twitter, Facebook, & the Social Web
- A103: Search Widgets & Gadgets for Libraries
- C104: Cool Tools for Library Webmasters
- A106: Improving Navigation & Findability
On Monday night I also attended a “dine-around” with an excellent group of weird librarians. I say weird because we all didn’t fall into the usual bucket. We were law librarians, engineering librarians, business librarians, embedded librarians, in higher education, in law firms, in state legislatures. In theory we were supposed to be talking about the future of information professionals, but I think the theme just drew together interesting people.
Tuesday Sessions
Track A: Enterprise Trends
Track B: Innovation & Change
Track C: Learning
Track D: Solving Problems
- Keynote: Search Engine Land: What’s Happening Out There?
- D201: Solving the Reference Desk Problem
- C202: 2.0 Learning & 1.8 Users: Bridging the Gap
- B203: Embedding Libraries/Librarians in Learning
- B204: Who Moved My Ultrafiche & 8-Tracks? Insights for the Future
- B205: Ubiquitous Computing & Libraries
Wednesday Sessions
Track A: Digital Operations
Track B: Social Media
Track C: Virtual Worlds & Gaming
Track D: Planning
- Keynote: Social Media & Networked Technologies: Research & Insights
- A301: Strategic Framework for Library Automation
- A302: Implementing the Next-Gen OPAC
- A304: Information Visualization Tools
I sort of regret skipping the closing keynote, because I learned today that there was discussion of crafting but, frankly, free passes to the aquarium were worth it.
Monterey photos
I have some video to upload, but in the meantime, some photos from Monterey.
I’ve typed up my session notes and will write up something interesting when I get home.
Notes, notes, notes
I’ve been taking lots of notes this week, and I hope to discuss them here in the next few days. Wireless has been iffy at the convention center, so I’ve got a mix of paper and Word. I’ve had some excellent food and met a lot of very interesting folks from a wide variety of libraries.
Tonight after sessions end I’d like to visit the farmer’s market and perhaps talk a walk down to the wharf, and I’m planning to visit the aquarium tomorrow after the last day of talks.
Stay tuned.
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For reference, I’ll be tagging posts (silly and informational) about the conference with Internet Librarian 2008.
