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WAMC interview on Syracuse library camp!

Thanks to Jill Hurst-Wahl for the heads up on the WAMC radio interview about the Library Camp/Unconference held in Syracuse last week. Great interview with Penelope Klein and Jean Sheviak.

Upstate New York Library Camp was a great success

The Upstate New York Library Camp was held yesterday and today. Despite bad weather that threatened to nix my trip, I did get to attend most of the first day. And what a great day it was. Despite the gloom of wintry weather, there were more than 80 people from all over upstate NY gathered [...]

LibraryCamp - Upstate NY March 4-5

Registration is now open for the first library unconference in upstate NY, being held in Syracuse on March 4-5.

March 4 - Unconference on the Future of Libraries
March 5 - Collection Development Conference

So what’s an unconference? Sounds odd at first, but it’s a conference where the participants decide what topics will be discussed and [...]

Computers in Libraries 2008 - NYLINK discout

NYLINK is once again providing discounted registration to their members. Info on the NYLINK web site.

“It’s ok to be beta.” - Joyce Valenza workshop

“It’s ok to be beta. You’re not going to be perfect out of the box. Try it anyway.” Wise and encouraging words from a presentation this morning by Joyce Valenza.
Joyce was in Saratoga Springs, NY to present two workshops sponsored by our four regional BOCES school library systems. 75 attended on Friday and 25 on [...]

NYLA 2007 - Presentations on SlideShare

Just did a quick “nyla 2007″ search for presentations, blog posts, photos, links - anything about the conference. I was pleased to find some of the presentation slides already posted to SlideShare.net
Currently there are slides for:

Developing Consumer Health Information Services in Public Libraries (Christine McDonald, Guinevere Forshey)
Tag it! Social Bookmarking and Tagging (Sara Greenleaf)
Blogging [...]