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Another wonderful group of school librarians got together for a “2.0 Tech Camp” this weekend. This session was a bit shorter than the two held over the summer. Still, we covered a lot of territory and everyone left with plans to put one or more of the tools to work. (more…)

The New York Library Association’s Ethnic Services Roundtable held a Diversity Fair today. Organized by Zahra Baird, there were poster sessions highlighting library services to diverse communities. My poster was on using 2.0 tools to reach out to communities online. I had a steady stream of visitors and some great conversations.

Links to everything (and more) highlighted in the poster will be available soon at: http://lib20.pbwiki.com

NYLA 2007 is almost over. One more day of programs. It’s been a terrific conference. Lots of good programs and events. Met tons of interesting people, met up with lots of friends, enjoyed some good food (alas, no wings). Next week, I’ll add more info on the sessions I attended.

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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 in the Library (Nancy Weiss, Bonnie Hodes)

It’s so helpful to be able to preview a presentation to help choose which sessions to attend. Especially when there are any number of great sessions going on at the same time. Hope to see more presentations online during and after the conference.

Jill Hurst-Wahl presented a full day session on social networking tools at the New York Library Association meeting. She filled presented all sorts of terrific ideas for using social networking tools in libraries and answered many interesting questions from the participants. She encouraged everyone to experiment with the tools and consider how they might help libraries connect with patrons and each other, share content and collaborate.

Specific tools discussed included:

• Facebook
• Skype
• Twitter
• LibraryThing
• Twitter
• slideshare
• YouTube
• delicious
• Google Docs
• Zoho

Other topics included wikis, blogs, rss readers, mashups and much more. It was a very full day! From the great questions and ideas from the audience, it seemed everyone found some interesting new ideas to take away. During breaks many people were sharing ideas for ways these tools could help them in their libraries. As one participant stated at the end of the session: “I just have so many ideas and projects in mind now.”

Jill’s slides are available at: http://www.hurstassociates.com/ppt/nyla2007.ppt