Hello from the Ohio Small Libraries Conference

Hi from Columbus Ohio. The Ohio Library Council IT division has their own blog and you can read a bit about the conference there. If you look around at some of the other blogs the contributers from that blog also post to, you’ll find great stuff like Library Geek Woes and the Spotlight on Ohio Libraries blog. My two talks are here:

The Information Poor & the Information Don’t Care, Small Libraries and the Digital Divide (a slightly updated version of my favorite talk)
Until We’re All Robots: Sensible Approaches to Technology in Libraries (a more philosophical talk that I’m afraid wasn’t as accessible as I thought it would be)

Tomorrow I’m sitting in on a few talks as well as participating in the closing summary session, Then I’m getting a late flight to the airport and arriving home at midnight, after most of the Sampson family has already arrived for the graduation festivities. My family and Greg’s sister get in on Friday. You can see the bug I found in my shower on Flickr here. Other than that, I’m having a pretty nice time.

Ohio Small Libraries Conference May 17-18

I’m on the road again next week to give a few technology-related presentations at the Ohio Small Libraries Conference. If anyone reading this is attending, please come up and say hello. There are a really neat set of talks at this conference and I’m particularly hoping to see 10 Things You Need to Do to Your Computer Today to see if there is anything I can bring back to all of my microlibraries.

SLA talk: Doing More With Less

Hi. Thanks so much to everyone who made me feel welcome and dealt with our extension cord search when they were already full of food and working on dessert at the SLA meeting this evening. I had a great time giving the talk and I hope you revisit it to follow the links we didn’t have time to click-click-click through. The talk is here: Doing More with Less, High Tech on a Shoestring. If you scroll all the way to the end of it and click on the “printable” link you can see the notes that I actually (sort of) read from.

hi – 06jan

Hi. I gave a new version of an old talk today to about 40 people at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. It’s gotten to to the point that many of the librarians and library students that I speak to in big cities have now heard of blogs, wikis, wireless and RSS. So, instead of just giving a “ten tech tips” talk, I changed it to something a little different Tech Trends in Libraries, the Good News and the Bad News. I’ve been to visit seven libraries in the past two days, apologies for being a little lax on updates here. I’ll be back early next week.

hi – 30dec

Hi. I’m in the in-between phase of this year’s job and next year’s job which are really the same job except that the odd nature of grant funding means that I had to apply for next year’s job all over again. At least they didn’t make me pay the $26 to get myself fingerprinted again. So my “new” jobs starts on January second and I suspect it will be a lot like the old job. It lasts until September. I’m leaving for a quickie trip to Alabama on January 4th and, surprise surprise, will be giving a little talk about technology and libraries to the UA folks. If you happen to be in Birmingham next Friday the sixth, I’ll be at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library, Room 158 at 2 pm.