I’m in lovely Monterey, CA, for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference. It’s my very first conference as a librarian! (My very first conference ever, in fact, in any field, for I don’t count smaller departmental or local chapter meetings. Boy do I feel like a virgin…)
I took my brand new, squeeky-clean laptop, mostly to take [...]
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Conferencing!
Posted in Conferences, Travel, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After wrapping up my summer studies, visiting relatives in Europe, hosting relatives in NYC, and starting a part-time library job (yay!), I’m back in school. Well, technically school starts next week for me, but other classes have been meeting for almost two weeks. I will also start my internship next week. It’s going to be [...]
Borrow a museum ticket
Posted in Museums, Travel, Usability on Sunday, July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Toronto Public Library has a program that allows patrons to ‘borrow’ family passes to participating museums. That’s a great idea.
I haven’t heard of anything quite like that before. A comparable program, perhaps, on the old continent is the Swedish initiative to attract more museum goers by removing entry fees to museums run by the [...]
Editing images on the fly
Posted in Images, Travel on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I ran into three applications that allow you to edit your images online: flickrCC, Preloadr, and Picnik. Haven’t tried any yet, but they offer pretty exciting possibilities for those on the move.
Edit: Found another one though lo-fi librarian: myImager.
Mission: To go out and mingle
Posted in Career, Conferences, People, Scary, Travel on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like the author of Chronicles of Bean, I have a hard time mingling fluently. Two days ago, I decided to stop worrying and registered for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference in Monterey, CA in October. I’m excited: the program has almost too many interesting panels and talks, I’ll get to hear some people whose blogs [...]
