Internet Librarian 2007

12th November 2007

posted in LIS conference, technology, web 2.0, libraries |

Lots of blogs are talking about all of the ideas and information that were shared recently at the Internet Librarian 2007 conference (held as the eleventh annual conference in Monterey, CA • October 29-31, 2007), so I thought that I’d jump in and share some of my favorite findings. WebJunction (an awesome resource for librarians, by the by) provides a brief overview of the Internet Librarian 2007 conference.

Now that the conference has been held, presentations have been made, and attendees have returned home, WebJunction’s compilation serves to provide access to a sampling of conference presentations and conference summaries.

A couple of conference presenters/attendees whose content that I wanted to highlight are Darlene Fichter and David Lee King. Darlene Fichter followed the Web Development and Design Track at the Internet Librarian 2007conference, and, on her informative blog, she provides a nice summary of some of the highlights of this track for her. In his equally informative blog, David Lee King provides links to the PDF files of the three presentations that he gave at Internet Librarian 2007 (Introduction to Videoblogging (part of a preconference), Setting up the New Stuff: Planning and Implementing Library 2.0, and Topeka’s Second Life: Experiments in a Digital World).

Mainly, though, I have written this whole post just to be able to share the Cool Tools for Library Webmasters slides (for which Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone deserve the credit). Many of the Cool Tools are applicable beyond the webmaster, and 2.0 librarians may find themselves appropriating these Cool Tools to serve library functions such as programming, marketing, and overall customer service enhancements (or perhaps for use in their spare time just for the fun of it all).

A nice summation of the Cool Tools slideshow has been provided by LawLib Tech and by Instructional Design Resources, but there’s nothing like viewing the original slides for yourself. Here’s the slideshow (which can also be viewed via Slideshare…such a cool tool):

Darlene Fichter also makes her slides available at Slideshare for her Mashups & Data Visualizations Session (I didn’t embed this one, but just click on the link to view it).