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Internet Librarian 2009 – Meredith Hammons
Part two of my afternoon exploring social media was Sarah Houghton-Jan, of the San Jose Public Library, discussing Web 2.0 for underfunded libraries. Sarah discussed several free or inexpensive tools a library can use to be involved with Web 2.0. These included various free e-mail programs such as gmail, or IM services, such as yahoo, [...]
Digital Storytelling: Where Outreach, Local History & Technology Collide
Everyone has a story. Being able to turn your story to something that can be shared with others enhances self worth and benefits the community overall. Their story lives on after they are gone. As libraries, we have the training and in some ways, duty to document and archive society’s culture and history. We have [...]
Whirlwind tour of Hennepin County Library
Meg Canada, who works as Librarian as well as in Assistive Technology & Teen Services Online for the Hennepin County Library (I hope I got your title right!), and is also a lovely friend of mine, graciously took the time on Thursday, March 27 to give me an epic-yet-whirlwind tour of not only the Hennepin [...]
Behind the scenes at the Virtual Conference
Here’s an inside look at the PLA Virtual Conference Studio here in the Convention Center, just before things kicked off at 10am.
More ALA conference video on Book TV
You can watch the video of Garrison Keillor’s (*overflowing*) session on the importance of public libraries on BookTV.com (requires RealPlayer installed to view). Just click on the Watch button above Garrison’s picture on the upper right to view the video, which is just under 1 hour. Unfortunately, I don’t see an online video of the [...]
