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PALS talks in Illinois

I just got finished doing my two training/talks for PALS in Shorewood Illinois. It was the first talk I’ve done which was videoconferenced or streamed someplace else. It was very odd trying to remember to look into the camera at least somewhat [there was a live audience too, if that’s the right word for it] and not walk to far afield. Both talks went well and both were ALL NEW. It’s been a while since I gave a talk that I made up totally from scratch and this month I’ve given three of them, very exciting. Here are the direct links, thanks to everyone who turned out and made me feel welcome.

On The Fly Tech Support, or “Hey, this isn’t my job!”
Search – It’s Not All Google or is it?

Even moreso than my last talks, you’ll need to scoot to the end and click the “printable” link to see my notes for the talk. I’m trying very hard to not just read off the screen if I can help it.

podcastin: pod me hum

Posted on 17Aug0617Aug06 by jessamyn

I got to talk to Dan Chudnov and Ross Singer in the second podcast in the library geeks series titled post-social. We talked about, um, computers, and MetaFilter and I honestly can’t hardly remember, but I’m going to go listen to it now. You can find it at geeks.onebiglibrary.net.

my SAA talk, notes and photos

Posted on 06Aug0606Aug06 by jessamyn

I gave my talk about collaborative information systems and blogs generally at the closing day of the SAA conference yesterday. Here are my slides: Capturing Collaborative Information: News, Blogs, Librarians, and You. It’s pretty picture-heavy — thank you Flickr — but you can click on the “printable version” link in the last slide to see my notes. You can also see a few pictures in my Flickr photostream under the saa tag. I went to another discussion on the link between archives and justice that I’ll be writing up later today as well as tracking down some of the reports from people who blogged about my talk yesterday.

linkdump 03aug06

Posted on 03Aug0603Aug06 by jessamyn

Here are the websites that have been gracing my sidebar for the past few months, for those of you reading the site via your RSS reader. I’m also going to try adding a list of upcoming talks/presentations to the sidebar. You can see all the posts containing these lists by exploring the linkdump tag

Washington DC and keeping busy

Posted on 27Jul0627Jul06 by jessamyn

July and August are often dead months for people work-wise because so many people are on vacation and the weather (in the US anyhow) is often hot and stultifying. I’ve been busy this Summer and I thought I’d just let you know what I’ve been up to besides all the job stuff that you likely know about.

I wrote a chapter for Rachel Singer Gordon’s upcoming book Information Tomorrow: Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public and Academic Libraries. My topic was technostress, technophobia and technorealism. As many of the other chapter authors know, a summertime writing deadline is one of the few things that can induce technostress in me. On the bright side, I got a lot of other things done as part of my aggressive procrastination plan, and the chapter is finished and I am happy with it.
I am now a co-editor of the From Picas to Pixels column of Serials Review along with current editor Michael Brown a longtime blogger librarian buddy of mine. He interviewed me for the last issue and I interviewed Jenna Freedman about zine librarianship for the latest issue. The column, in Michael’s words, “interview[s] indie-publishers about why they do what they do. It started out with print zines but has taken on websites recently.” If you have good ideas for topics, please send them my way. If I had a job job, this would help me get tenure, I bet.
Speaking of jobs, I’m also working on an introduction to A Day in the Life edited by Priscilla K. Shontz and Richard A. Murray. It’s a collection of almost a hundred librarians talking about what they do all day. Fascinating stuff.
Speaking of fascinating, I’m going to DC next week to speak on a panel at the Society of American Archivists conference. My talk is on Saturday the 5th and it’s about blogs as places where information is actually created and why this is important to archivists. As always I’m looking for interesting things to do in DC and possibly Baltimore. I’m already planning a visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Library where I know the systems librarian and possibly the Library of Congress where I know the THOMAS webmaster. Do you work in a library in DC/Baltimore? Would you like to show me around it? If so, please drop me an email.