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Dee Portzer and Linda Fox at our planning meeting for Summer Tech Camp. Looks a lot like lunch at the Shaker Shed to me! It was, but we also worked on the agenda for the 2 day tech camps being held at Renssealearville Institute.

The first session is July 10 & 11, the second will be held August 20 and 21. See the calendar for the regional BOCES School Library Systems for more info. (more…)

I’ve been asked to speak at the Southern Adirondack Library System’s annual meeting in May. The topic is Libray 2.0: Meeting Community Needs. I’m looking forward to the meeting. The 3 things you’re supposed to remember for an after dinner speech are: be Entertaining, Informative and Brief. It takes a lot of time to prepare a talk that’s brief!

Just finished 2 fun days of training at the Nioga Library System in western NY. Day 1 was an introduction to web 2.0 and library 2.0 - or “A Taste of 2.0″. Day 2 focused on RSS, del.icio.us, personalized home pages, and incorporating feeds into web pages.

The group included several director/staff pairs. It was so great to hear the directors excited about using blogs, wikis, flickr and more to promote their library services. One director regretted they’d have to delegate the work, they wanted to have some fun too!

Everyone had terrific ideas to share with the group! Some of the ideas people said they wanted to implement right away were:

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