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The New York Library Association annual meeting begins tomorrow in Buffalo. The schedule is full of interesting meeting topics this year.

Tomorrow I’ll be attending Jill Hurst-Wahl’s full day workshop on social networking tools. She’s a great speaker, so I know that will be a terrific day.

Other programs I hope to get to include:

• Edwared Corrado on Open Source initiatives
• Stephen Abram on Baby Busters, Gen X, and Born Digital Babies
• Digitizing Your Library’s Treasures
• 21st Century OPACS
• U of Rochester’s eXtensible Catalog project
• 2.0 Management Tools
• Library System 2.0: Case Study in Drupal

Not that the whole conference is gone 2.0 mad! Lots of programs on other topics too: Guys Read, Telling Tales, Building a Green Library, Helping Homeschoolers, the New Road Warriors. And my persona favorite title: Mold, it’s not just for Breakfast! :-)  All in all, around 90 programs over the 4 day conference.

Special events include a Diversity Fair on Friday where I’ll have a poster session on “2.0 tools to expand your outreach”.

There’s also going to be a sneak preview of The Kite Runner. Terrific!

And last but not least, I’m hoping to relive my college days with some great beer and wings at my old college haunt, Duff’s.

They paid me to play with flickr! Can’t beat that!

The Southern Adirondack Library System is sponsoring a series of Library 2.0 workshops for their member libraries. And once a month, they hold a DIY workshop day. Staff can drop in and get some help with their blogs, wikis, flickr, web sites, whatever.

Today we fixed some broken blogs and played with flickr. A good time was had by all!

“Web Science” is a new course being developed and taught by by Dr. James Hendler, director of the Tetherless World Constellation, a new research group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). Here’s a bit of the course description:

“Since its inception the World Wide Web has changed the ways people work, play, communicate, collaborate, and educate. There is, however, a growing realization among researchers across a number of disciplines that without fundamental understanding of the current, evolving and potential Web, we may be missing or delaying opportunities for new and revolutionary capabilities.”

Sounds fascinating and what a cool research program.

Yahoo is donating $1 for every photo added to the Passionately Pink for the Cure flickr photo pool. Join in!

Seems to me that bookmobiles are very “library 2.0″ and have been for the last 50 years or so. Talk about taking the library out to the community. But The Boston Globe thinks that bookmobiles are fading away: Bookmobiles’ final chapter?

I haven’t looked up the stats on this, but I’m not convinced. There’s a new bookmobile in a city near me, taking the library out to community centers, senior homes and other neighborhood places. Is this a new trend? I do hope so!

Now for the personal nostalgia. I loved the bookmobile when I was a kid. Not as great as going to the big library, but pretty darn cool that I could ride my bike to meet the bookmobile and get some new books to read. Maybe 10 year olds on bikes aren’t the current demographic target for bookmobiles, but I’m guessing there are plenty of people who would welcome a visit from the a bookmobile. Doesn’t get much more ‘2.0′ than that!

Thanks to Carolyn Foote over on library20.ning.com for sharing this info about the upcoming K12 Online Conference 2007. The conference will focus on web 2.0 tools and their role in learning. Presentations will be posted online. Several “live events” will take place online as well. Love that the theme is “Playing with Boundaries” - this certainly plays with the boundaries of how to attend a conference. Looking forward to this ‘happening’! (ok, happenings were so 1960’s or was it 70’s?)

Welcome to the K-12 Online Conference!

The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from all educators from around the world who are interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This is a FREE conference run by volunteers and open to everyone, no registration is required. The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. The 2007 conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations.