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The Future is Mobile: OCLC/LJ Online Symposium

June 1, 2010
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The Future is Mobile: OCLC/LJ Online Symposium

The the recording is now available from the May 20th online Symposium The Future is Mobile sponsored by OCLC and Library Journal.   You can listen to it here or see the tweets on Twitter or What the Hashtag Speakers included: Sarah Allen, Director, Blazing Cloud, Inc. Jack Mason, Global Business Services, Strategic Programs & Social Media, Ibm Lindsay Notwell, Executive Director, 4g Strategy & Implementation, Verizon Wireless The Bullpen Of Library Represenatives Included Jason Casden, Digital Technologies Development Librarian, Ncsu Libraries Toby Greenwalt, Virtual Services Coordinator, Skokie Public Library David Saff, Software Engineer, Google Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Digital Services Librarian, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven Greg Carpenter, Ceo, Boopsie Noel Chandler, Ceo & Co-Founder, Mosio and me Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Buzz it up Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Top Ten Links Week 19

May 16, 2010
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/7/2010 thru 5/13/2010 1. kindness is one of the simplest things that make the biggest different How to Be Kinder: 11 Fine Tips If you only read one thing from this post read this one. We could use a little more kindness in the world and its far too underated. Don’t just look at the list go read the whole article. Be grateful for what you got. Express it. Minimize judgments. Take it easy with the criticism. Try to understand the other side. Make positive observations about people. Remember the small and kind gestures. Remind yourself. It’s easy to forget. Awash yourself in the positive memories of the times when you were kind. Take the smarter and higher road. Be kind to yourself. 2. Internet Archive Launches Library for the Visually Impaired With 1M Books via @ALA_TechSource The 1 million+ books in the Internet Archive’s library for print disabled, are scanned from hard copy books then digitized into DAISY — a specialized format used by blind or other persons with disabilities, for easy navigation. Files are downloaded to devices that translate the text and read the books

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My Notes from LITA Top Tech Trends at ALA MidWinter

January 21, 2010
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My Notes from LITA Top Tech Trends at ALA MidWinter

The panel consisted of David Walker, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Joe Murphy, Lauren Pressley, Jason Griffey and was moderated by Greg Silvis David Watson discovery systems to get the rss for a specific journal you need to visit the specific site or vendor, different silos for information, need to wait for vendors to create mobile system bring data together in aggregated system have one local for info if everything is all together in one place, books article etc does that really help students? are libraries giving up too much control to the cloud? Panel response Griffey – expected to see collapse of these databases and vendors fighting each other Etches – federated searching was a disaster, is discovery system better? David – system helps level playing field Amanda – user experience buzz word for 2009 People can’t agree on what it means, user experience design is about designing everything buildings etc, but interest for her (us) is web Visual design coupled with interactive design, how does that make our users feel? We aren’t ready to make our users feel we need to keep talking about user interface and usability Mobile interfaces are necessarily stripped down because they have to be Mobile browsing

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