I’m at AALL in New Orleans as part of a program organized by June Liptay and Alan Keely, speaking with U of R’s David Lindahl and NCSU’s Emily Lynema. From the description (see page 5 in the program):
Traditional library online catalogs are being marginalized in an increasingly complex information landscape. …Better methods are needed for [...]

Posted July 15, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: AALL, American Association of Law Libraries, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, presentation. 4 Comments.

I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library.
The full title of our program is Technology Scouts: how to keep your library and ILS current in the IT world (H-4, 4PM Tuesday, room 274). My portion of the presentation [...]

Posted July 11, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: AALL, AALL2006, American Association of Law Libraries, api, conference, law libraries, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, opensearch, presentation, rss, web 2.0, web20, xml. Be the first one.

Amusing. One one side of the world is Jenny Levine, the original library RSS bigot, pushing libraries to adopt new technologies from the bottom up, and here on the other side of the world is NewsGator offering their products for top-down adoption.
Why are law libraries interested in NewsGator? Could it be that social software increases [...]

Posted July 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: AALL, AALL2006, American Association of Law Libraries, feed management, law libraries, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, newsgator, rss, rss syndication, social software. 9 Comments.

Nicole Engard last month posted about The State of our ILS, describing the systems as:
I’d say it’s a like the crazy cousin you have to deal with because he’s family! It doesn’t fit, we are a very open IT environment, we have applications all over that need to talk to each other nicely and the [...]

Posted June 13, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: AALL, American Association of Law Libraries, future libraries, ils, interoperability, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, Nicole Engard, standards, Steve Lawson. 3 Comments.