Upcoming Events:

Kim is part of an Industry Roundtable Professional Development event hosted by the Knowledge Media Design Institute on Thursday March 4th, 4-6pm at the University of Toronto iSchool.

Kim is presenting at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN March 17-18 2010.

Registration for Computers in Libraries 2010 is now open. April 12-14, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Kim is presenting at IASSIST 2010: Social Data and Social Networking: Connecting Social Science Communities Across the Globe in Ithaca, NY June 1-4 2010.

Registration for SLA's Annual Conference is now open. The conference is in New Orleans, June 13-16, 2010.

KMWorld 2010 is in Washington, D.C. this year; November 16-18, 2010. The call for speakers is now open.

EyeWeekly tells us how to build a better think tank

From EyeWeekly:

Full disclosure: I work at the MPI, and yes, it is cool. Fire away.

How to Build a Better Think Tank

August 31st, 2009 | Category: Mockery, Think tanks | Leave a comment

For the less-than-uber-cool: follow TEDxTO online Thursday, Sept 10

I applied to attend TEDxTO in person, and was declined. Guess I’m just not that cool.

But no matter – I will be listening (with the rest of my not-cool friends) to the TEDxTO web cast (details TBA). I imagine the twitterfeed will be the best channel for following the conversation. And, announced today on [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Category: Events, Social Media | Leave a comment

Children’s Book Collection from Apple’s iPhone

November 19 2008 / College Park, MD

For immediate release

COLLEGE PARK, MD – November 19, 2008 – The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) (http://www.childrenslibrary.org), which is the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet, today announced the release of the ICDL for iPhone application.

Available free at Apple’s iPhone App Store, the ICDL [...]

August 31st, 2009 | Category: Fun Stuff, Gadgets and Gizmos, Innovation, Mobile Devices, e-Books, eLearning | Leave a comment

Jobs for the modern info graduate

My friend Ulla de Stricker asked her blogiverse to weigh in on how new info pro grads can find unique, non-traditional jobs, and Dave Hook provides a great response in two parts here and here.

The past year has been no treat for anyone looking for work — but overall I see information professionals playing a [...]

August 26th, 2009 | Category: Jobs, Librarians | Leave a comment

Librarians challenge Web 2.0 youth-work myths

by Phil Manchester

Search reality check

From BEA Systems and its soon-to-be owner Oracle, from mighty IBM to a myriad of social network and online office start-ups, vendors have been telling us how the “Google generation” and Web 2.0 will change the way we work. Many have been flogging applications and middleware products, [...]

August 20th, 2009 | Category: Librarians, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment
 
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