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talks I’ve done that might be helpful to you

jessamyn — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:49:25 +0000

So, my resolution to write all new talks for 2009 is meaning I spend a lot more time on them. “All new” may be a bit of a stretch since one of my recent talks contained a part of an earlier talk, but they’re all revamped and recontextualized. I was away for eight days. I did a training at the North Country Library System — a consortium that serves many tiny libraries just like mine, only in upstate New York instead of Vermont — that was a lot of fun. I then drove down to the Jersey Shore for one of my favorite library conferences, NJLA.

I don’t know exactly why NJLA is always so fun. I think it’s a combination of a well-organized and fun conference put on by an organization that doesn’t seem to be going broke and held in a neat location. The New Jersey librarians I have met there are a mix of older and younger librarians who seem to work and play well together. Maybe it’s just that they get my jokes. I did a talk about how to do some advanced stuff on YouTube and then also did an expansion of the Firefox talk that I did at Computers in Libraries.

As always my slides, notes and links are online and you can see them on these two pages.

Enjoy and if you came to any of these talks, thanks for being such a great audience.

A few things going on, googley and otherwise

jessamyn — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:30:47 +0000

I’ve been reading more, typing less. My super-bloggy friends told me lat year sometime that a lot of their friends were blogging less and Twittering more. I was surprised to hear that since it hadn’t really trickled down to my neck of the woods yet, but lately it has. While I still stay on top of my RSS feeds, I suspect that I can only do that because people are blogging less. I don’t know if they’re twittering more, having babies, buying houses or doing something else. I know what I’ve been doing: reading.

I’ve also been travelling which is probably not a totally fun thing to read about [if I could delete everyone's tweets from airports, I would -- unless they're me looking for someone to hang out with when my flight has been delayed] but I go through periods of educating, followed by periods of learning, etc. I also made a resolution to myself for this year to write new talks (some similar slides okay, all similar slides against the rules) so when I give talks, they’re more work but also better, I think. I’ll be doing a 2.0 talk in upstate New York for NCLS and then a few talks at NJLA next week. Lots of writing, good stuff to pass on.

What’s been really on my mind lately is the Google Books settlement. I happen to be lucky that an old time friend of mine from the blogger days, James Grimmelmann, is one of the major players in the “explain this to everyone” field day that is going on. He’s also a keen legal mind and a great writer so it’s been a joy to read what he and others have been writing. Here are some links to essays that may help you understand things.

James Grimelmann lays out principles and recommendations for the settlement, back in November
The Google Book Settlement and the Public Domain by Mary Minow
The Google Book Settlement at Columbia Part 1, Part 2 – slightly old, really worth reading
James Grimmelmann and Siva Vaidhyanathan discuss the settlement at Georgetown (bullet point notes)
A note about how the Internet Archive has gotten involved. Read the letter for more.

NJLA talk: Ten Tech Tools

jessamyn — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:27:01 +0000

I had a really nice large audience for my talk today at NJLA. We had some lively discussion in the informal tech talk afterwards and I learned some things myself. Here is the link to my talk from today: Ten Tech Tools for Librarians: making technology work for your library not vice versa

Mary Minow’s talks at NJLA

jessamyn — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:22:46 +0000

Mary Minow was also at NJLA and she has put her four presentations up on the LibraryLaw Blog which I am spending some time reading this evening. I’m especially enjoying her talk on the legality of copying graphics for use on web pages.