Part of the Transformation Track, Transforming Your Library, and Your Library’s Future, with Technology, program coordinators Alan Gray and John Blyberg (both of Darien Public Library) described it like this:
Technology can transform your library and its services, as it is transforming the lives of your patrons. From do-it-now technology improvements to next-generation implementations, from software [...]

Posted June 26, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ala, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, presentation, transformation. 3 Comments.

I’m not going to ALA/NO so I’m hoping those who are will blog it. Two events I’m especially interested in:
On Sunday, June 25:
Catalog Transformed: From Traditional to Emerging Models of Use
This program, co-sponsored by the MARS User Access to Services Committee and RUSA’s Reference Services Section (RSS, formerly MOUSS), deals with changes in library catalogs [...]

Posted June 15, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: ala, ALA/NO, ALA2006, American Library Association, conference, future libraries, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, new orleans. Be the first one.

You won’t get your salad dressing on the side in San Antonio. I don’t know what it says about a place, but in New England it’s so common I never learned to ask for it on the side, it just happens. Not so in San Antonio.
You’ll also have trouble finding a place to eat [...]

Posted January 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Travel. Tags: ala, ala midwinter, leisure, riverwalk, san antonio, san antonio tx, texas, tourist, Travel. Be the first one.

ALA Midwinter IUG SIG Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0
update: PDF version with space for notes
Web 2.0 and other “2.0” monikers have become loaded terms recently. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems [...]

Posted January 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: ala, ala midwinter, ala midwinter 2006, iii, iug, lib 2.0, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, online catalog, opac, opac 2.0, presentation, web 2.0, web opac. 40 Comments.

A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. It’s one of the few early web development resources that’s still with us, and there’s a reason.

tags: a list apart, ala, redesign, web development, web development resources

Posted August 23, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: a list apart, ala, redesign, web development, web development resources. One Comment.