Archive for October, 2007

David Lee King Keynote Podcast Question and Answer - LITA Forum 2007

October 6th, 2007 by jgriffey

The second piece of David Lee King’s Keynote: Question and Answer.
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Standing Room Only

October 6th, 2007 by Michelle Boule

Standing Room Only

Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre

For the Opening Keynote this morning, David Lee King spoke to a standing room only audience. The presentation was great. David talked about Web 2.0 concepts and challenged us to think differently about the way we do business and [...]

Library 2023, full-text

October 6th, 2007 by Michelle Boule

A Fun Discussion Moderated by Gregg Silvis
[There were two of these sessions and they both ran a bit differently. Gregg ran this as a discussion group and I captured as many of the comments as I could. Audience comments are marked “comments,” my comments are in brackets, and Gregg’s words are as is. I came [...]

David Lee King Keynote Podcast - LITA Forum 2007

October 6th, 2007 by jgriffey

In the continuing LITA conference Podcast series, here is David Lee King from the Saturday Keynote at LITA Forum 2007.
There are two files: this one is his actual keynote, and the upcoming post is the question and answer session afterwards.
As always: enjoy! If you value these podcasts and the blogging that we do, please [...]

 
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5-minute madness

October 6th, 2007 by Genny

This was a good idea and we should repeat it in future Forum years … maybe even at ALA. The program proposal submission and acceptance timeline is so long, this is the only way to get some of the late-breaking news from people who are doing interesting projects. Next time, though, let’s do [...]

David Lee King Keynote Presentation

October 6th, 2007 by Beverly Stafford

The Future is not out of Reach: Change, Library 2.0, and Emerging Trends
David Lee King, Digital Branch and Services Manager at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library in Kansas
David’s site: www.davidleeking.com
David Lee King is unusual for librarians: his job is “Digital Branch Manager” with a new job description created from elements of his old [...]

The Future is Not Out of Reach

October 6th, 2007 by Genny

David Lee King, Digital Branch & Services Manager at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, gave this second keynote, subtitled Change, Library 2.0, and Emerging Trends. He started off with “If you hate being on Flickr, duck” — the second time someone has said this at a session. Is photographing the audience the [...]

The Scientific and Social Challenges of Global Warming

October 6th, 2007 by Genny

Jeffrey Kiehl is a senior scientist in the Climate Change Research section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The Forum committee tries to include a speaker from a local organization at Forum; this year that speaker happens to be talking about a topic that’s been much in the news lately.
History [...]

Library Wide IT Proficiency Preconference

October 6th, 2007 by MWilliams

Library-Wide IT Proficiency Preconference
Presented by Brenda Chawner and Grace Sines
This session was very informative. The preconference covered technology competency frameworks, understanding proficiency issues, discussion on what makes a good IT staff and IT fundamentals. One major point made was that in order to be successful in this process each of need to know our end [...]

Library 2023: A Provoked Discussion on the Future of Libraries

October 6th, 2007 by JGrallo

Why 2023, you ask? Because that’s when Gregg A. Silvis will probably retire.
The first question Silvis posed to the participants was, What if there were 100,000,000 books available for free in full text?
First the group critiqued NetLibrary’s business model, then brainstormed about a “killer app” that would make ebooks enjoyable to read. Some folks seemed [...]