We’re about 10 days away from the ETIG Library Camp (Friday, May 29 @ McGill) and things are gearing up nicely: the schedule for the day is up, we’ve got three fun speakers lined up for the morning (Jessamyn West, John Fink, Jason Hammond), we already have some great suggestions for an interesting & informative [...]

This might be the last post I write on drupal for a while, not because I’m over it, but because there are a few other projects that have usurped my time, so it’s far more likely that you’ll hear me talk about mobile tech, usability, UI design, and new media over the next little while. [...]

I remember saying to a couple of colleagues after IL2008 that one of my takeaways from that conference was that I need to stop tinkering with things (projects, design stuff, proposals, reports, etc.) and just get it done and out the door. This brilliant manifesto serves as the perfect reminder that “done is the engine [...]

I am sitting in a fairly deserted post-CiL Crystal City, scribbling notes and jotting ideas gathered from some wonderful conference conversations into my notebook. As I ponder the completion of another successful Computers in Libraries, I have to admit to being overwhelmingly inspired by my librarian friends and colleagues from around the world. I don’t [...]

Update! We’ve made a couple of changes to ETIG Camp!
The Emerging Tech Interest Group of CLA (which I co-convene with the lovely and talented Amy Buckland) is hosting a library-camp-style pre-conference at CLA in May. The details:
Jessamyn West (yes THE Jessamyn West of librarian.net) will kick-off our day with a keynote on emerging technologies, [...]

This wordle thing is catching on and I couldn’t be happier! Jason had the brilliant idea to dump the text of a novel into wordle to produce an interesting visualization of word frequency. Then he tagged me, so I get to play too!

This is the text of James Joyce’s Dubliners, which is one of my [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a virtual seminar called The Scent of Information by Jared Spool at UIE. I try to stay on top of usability & UI design stuff, so a lot of it wasn’t brand-spanking-new, but it was definitely worth hearing again, especially since we’re in the middle of redesigning our [...]

As I mentioned the other day, del.icio.us has become even more of an outboard brain for me lately, especially with our website redesign in full swing. Anytime I’m confronted with even the most minuscule UI issue (what to put on the form submission button? “submit”, “go”, “search”?), I turn to a handful of UX/design favourites [...]

Internet Librarian was indeed full of win. My Academic Library 2.0 mates and I did our pre-conference again, this time for a cozy group of very engaged participants. I know it’s bad conference economics when the number of participants just doubles the number of speakers, but seriously, it makes for a very interesting day of [...]

As I mentioned previously, I gave a presentation at Internet Librarian about one-person project management. Most of what I spoke about (OK, all of it) was borne out of my experience with the web redesign project I worked on over the past 8 months, but really, I got the idea to talk about it when [...]