Library Camp East cheatsheet of links
I had a great time at Library Camp East and at the Darien Library generally. It was fun getting to give the techie librarian hi-five to new folks and old friends. I was only sorry it wasn’t like sleepover camp where we all could have sat around in the library basement in sleeping bags behind the glow of our laptops and IMed YouTube videos to each other for hours. It was that sort of crowd. As with many trips, the drive up and back with Casey and Lichen and the early morning commute with Michael Golrick were equally high points of the event as was my third library schwag mug of the week (admittedly, I got two from NDLA)
I don’t have any online notes for the presentation I wound up giving with Sharon from the CT state library. Titled “I know what good web design is, why don’t you know what good web design is?” it was a discussion about best practices, benchmarks and coding for accessibility as well as web standards and validation generally. Don’t we all want validation? I participated in a discussion about the political side of 2.0 technologies including my favorite, MySpace. I did make a list of resources during the first part of the event and I think I was the only person really updating the wiki during Library Camp except for other people’s additions to the schedule.
Some more linky discussions of events from Casey, Lichen, Sean, Rebecca and more photos from Flickr. Please add more in the comments if I missed anyone.
September 26th, 2006 at 2:23
[...] Library Camp East cheetsheat of links – posted on September 26, 2006. [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 1:34
Hi Jessamyn, It was great to meet you & to co-lead the afternoon session on website stds with you! I was inspired to download HTML Tidy, web dev toolbars, and so on – thank you for the resource links. Doug L. from the CT State Library also sends his best regards. Now to recover that LibraryThing login.
September 28th, 2006 at 2:01
[...] I’ve also been put to shame by all the other bloggers who have covered this event already: Rebecca Hedreen, Sean Robinson, Sharon Clapp, Abby Blachly, Casey Bisson, Jessamyn West, Jennifer Macaulay, Michael Golrick, and Lichen Rancourt [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 3:55
[...] I know this post is well overdue, but the last few weeks have kept me extremely busy. Library Camp East was amazing; fun, thought-provoking, and inspiring. John Blyberg and Alan Kirk Gray (as well as the rest of the Darien Library Staff) did a heck of a job preparing for all of us descending into the auditorium. They even gave me a cool mug that my co-workers envy. I also finally got to meet Dan Chudnov and Casey Bisson, whose blogs I’ve followed for a while now. Jessamyn West and John posted nearly exhaustive lists of posts by LCE attendees for reference. (For what it’s worth, Jessamyn also tips her hat to ArchivesBlogs and apologizes for us not meeting at two conferences so far. I share the blame!) [...]