[]I’m excited and honored to be joining Meredith Farkas and David J. Fiander in a roundtable discussion of Top Tech Trends, an OLITA program at Superconference. We’ve made a pact not to share our trends with each other in advance (no peeking), so it’ll be interesting to see how much overlap we have and how [...]

Posted February 2, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, library 2.0, LITA, next generation catalog, OLA, OLITA, Ontario Library Association, presentation, superconference, superconference2008, top tech trends. 5 Comments.

I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online.
Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And [...]

Posted February 1, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, library 2.0, next generation catalog, OLA, Ontario Library Association, presentation, scriblio, superconference, superconference2008. Be the first one.

My presentation for today’s hottest IT trends is nearly completely new, though it draws a number of pieces from my building web 2.0-native library services and remixability presentations. What it adds is an (even more) intense focus on the people that make up the web.
Denmark is among the most wired countries of Europe, and it’s [...]

Posted November 16, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: copenhagen, denmark, library 2.0, presentation, web 2.0, web native. One Comment.

The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? And though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform [...]

Posted October 31, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: conference, IL2007, Internet Librarian, libraries, library 2.0, native, presentation, scriblio, web 2.0. 4 Comments.

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 was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of “Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse.”
What is faceting? Why is it (re)emerging in use? Where can I see it in action? This program is intended to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations that [...]

Posted June 27, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: alcts, authority control, clustering, faceted search and browse, faceting, libraries, library, library 2.0 lib20, LITA, presentation, scriblio. 4 Comments.

[]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.

Context: Below is the text of my virtual presentation to the LITA BIGWIG (it stands for blogs, wikis, interest group, and stuff) Social Software Showcase. The presentation is virtual, but the round table discussion is going on today, June 23rd, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Renaissance Mayflower Cabinet Room. I won’t be there, though. My [...]

Posted June 23, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bigwigshowcase07, community informatics, imls, internet archive, open source, presentation, scriblio. 2 Comments.

Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium’s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability.
My blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but my slides are online as both an animated QuickTime and PDF.
BPL, BLC, boston library consortium, [...]

Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: BLC, boston library consortium, boston public library, BPL, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems, presentation, remixability. 2 Comments.

ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Future of Cataloging presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition. (slides: QuickTime & PDF.)
Stir my writings on The Google Economy and Arrival of the Stupendous post with frame four of the ALCTS And The Future Of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, And Values document:
In the realm of advanced digital applications, we are interested in collaboration, [...]

Posted January 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: alamw2007, alcts, collaboration, competition, future of bibliographic control, future of cataloging, google economy, midwinter, presentation. One Comment.