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Code4Lib10 tuesday notes

The morning started with a nice 12 mile run based on a few different routes.  A closed road near the Biltmore house had me walking (terrified) across a very short railroad trestle before I noticed a nice pedestrian bridge (way to go Asheville!). Code4Lib is a very connected conference which leads to in-depth online [...]

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Code4Lib Preconferences – Koha/blacklight/dev tools

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 [...]

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Iphone apps for libraries, Handheld Librarian, bestest 1 hour talk ever

Minglu Wang talked about how to develop applications for iphones/mobile devices. She started out with a survey of what platforms people used. 69% of attendees were iphone/ipod users . Who says it isn’t “all about the iphone.” It was interesting to see that 80% of people in attendance were interested primarily in developing [...]

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Handheld Librarian Live blog

Handheld Librarian kicked off today with a keynote from Tom Peters, CEO of TAP information services. He focused on providing reference via mobile services & started by focusing on some statistics that talked about how rapidly cell phone technology has been adopted (he asserted that the cell phone became popular faster than the toaster [...]

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ALA Techsource Emerging Trends Webinar

Today Erik, Mary S., Barry, Sarah, Ellen D., Lauren P., Kaeley, Molly K., Leslie, JP, and Erik attended the ALA techsource webinar. Although the high point of the session was a ’shout-out’ to our very own Lauren P’ there were alot of intersting trends discussed. Lots of folks focused on mobile/social apps, augmented reality apps [...]

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Christmas in pinehurst

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Lita last day – themes

This morning I got rained out of a long run in SLC but did get to hear the incredible sound of thunder as it reverberated across the valley. As I finished up my run on a treadmill I saw a few lighning bolts hit the mountains to the west and was very happy to be [...]

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LITAnUTAH

Lots of stuff for day 2 of lita. I would be remiss if I did not mention the spectacular views that I saw during an early morning run

After the run, we started the day with David Weinberger who likes to talk about *my* favorite topic. Both Lauren and Susan have talked about David’s [...]

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Generating interest in your campus IR

Erik, Sarah J, Molly K, and Steve K (anyone else?) attended a web-based conference on marketing institutional repositories to the university. The two presenters were from CalPoly and discussed how their IR supported a wide range of resources including university archives, masters theses, and faculty publications.
They covered a wide range of topics but [...]

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ZSR library feeds, learns from teachers for DigitalForsyth project

Many many thanks go out to the attendees of today’s workshop, LearnNC, East Carolina University, Forsyth County Public Library, and our own ZSR and Coy C. Carpenter libraries for the tremendously successful DigitalForsyth education workshop that was held today at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
In total, we worked with 26 teachers to create lesson plans [...]

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