Computers in Libraries 2008!
Posted by Miriella on 3 April 2008
Whee! Tomorrow I’ll be headed down to Virginia for this very cool conference. First though, I’m making a pit stop down in Virginia Beach. I’m taking my cousin with me, and we’re meeting up with her sister + family who are driving up from Florida to meet on the beach Friday night for a mini-fam reunion. Sometime Saturday I’ll head back up north to Arlington for the event.
It’ll be my first time at a CiL Conference, and from what I’ve read, it looks like I’ll be learning so much and having too much fun at the same time. My usual dilemma of these conferences is that I see the track listings and schedules and I always want to go to 4 presentations at the same time. Far too much good stuff. I’ll be attempting to keep a level head though, and stay focused on the Web Design track…though I just may need to sneak over into the Gaming track of course.
So far, my tentative schedule:
Sunday:
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9:00 am – 4:30 pm: Web Managers Academy Pre-Conference Workshop.
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5ish: Sunday Evening Gaming Session
Monday:
- 10:30 am: Hi Tech & Hi Touch (How can I pass up a session with Jenny Levine?)
- 11:30 am: Library Web Presence
- 1:30 pm: Torn between What’s New With Federated Search and The Global Librarian
- 3:15 pm: Widgets, Tools, & Doodads for Library Webmasters
- 4:15 pm: Torn between Library Staff Training and Industry Learnings & Libraries
Tuesday:
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10:30 am: Innovation Starts with “I”
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11:30 am: Drat! Drupal & Libraries or Libraries A-Twitter?!
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2:30 pm: Harnessing New Data Visualization Tools or Leading Technology in Libraries?
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4:00 pm: Video, YouTube & Libraries; 2.0 Pecha Kucha, or IM Service??!
Wednesday:
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10:30 am: Learning from Video Games (whee!)
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11:30 am: Open Source Applications or Gaming & Learning
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1:45 pm: Google Tracking or Open Source Library Automation
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2:45 pm: What’s Hot in RSS & Social Software
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3:45 pm: Searching for Social Web
And then I drive home! Hope to see you there!
