Degree Tutor has posted a list of very interesting interviews with librarians and others involved in the library world about the future of librarians. One of the interviews is with David Lee King, our Annual Meeting keynote speaker.
Click here to view the interview links on Degree Tutor’s Web site.
We can help you get to Internet Librarian 2007!
TBLC members who sign up through us for this year’s Internet Librarian conference will receive a special discount rate of $255 for the three-day event. This is a savings of $174 off the regular registration price.
To ensure you get your discount, print this registration form, fill it out and fax it to the TBLC at (813) 628-4425 no later than Sept. 21, 2007.
The Internet Librarian 2007 conference will take place in Monterey, Calif., October 29-31, 2007.
Click here for more information about the event.
Click here to download a registration form.
Contact Ellen Cannon at (813) 622-8252 (ext. 231) or cannone@tblc.org with any questions.
SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Crowne Plaza
10221 Princess Palm Ave.
Tampa, FL 33610
We are excited to announce that David Lee King will be this year’s featured keynote speaker. David is the digital branch and services manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library in Kansas. He is a frequent speaker on Web 2.0/Library 2.0 topics, library Web sites and emerging digital technology. David, we look forward to your presentation!
More information coming soon.
Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 - Up Close and Personal
August 6, 2007
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Niceville Community Center
What’s an unconference? Shorter, less expensive, and closer to home than a conference! FLA and the Panhandle Library Access Network (PLAN) invite you to join us for a day of conference-quality speakers and discussion.
SPEAKERS
Keynote by Lee Logan, Alliance Library System (Illinois), where they built the first library in Second Life. If you don’t know about Second Life, you definitely need to come!
Lunch speaker Gary Ross, vice president for technology, Thomson Gale, talking about the future of technology in libraries.
Web 2.0 guides Diana Sachs-Silveira, Tampa Bay Library Consortium, and Chad Mairn, St. Petersburg College, will lead you by the hand through all the new stuff on the Web.
Florida Electronic Library Director Mark Flynn will talk about the future of FEL.
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Meet and greet by library type to discuss Web 2.0/Library 2.0 in Panhandle libraries.
So you want to be a librarian? Learn how to do it in the FSU distance learning program. Dr. Christy Koontz, Florida State University College of Information.
REGISTRATION
Please register online at www.plan.lib.fl.us. FLA will then send you an invoice payable by check, credit card or purchase order.
FEE (includes AM and PM breaks and lunch)
$35 for FLA members and employees of PLAN member libraries
$45 for non-members
QUESTIONS?
Contact Alicia Hedgecock (ahedgecock@plan.lib.fl.us) or Ruth O’Donnell (flaexecutivedirector@comcast.net).
The Catalogers’ SIG met on May 23 at Stetson Law in Gulfport. Twenty-three people attended, and we had a great discussion about the “next generation library catalog,” how that relates to cataloging, and how cataloging may change in the light of Library 2.0 issues.
The group had a reading list of articles/blog posts to look at before the meeting to spark discussion; check it out here.
Our next meeting will be in August or September; an announcement will be posted to the “tblc-workshops” email list when we have a firm date. At this meeting we will be discussing Part II - looking at examples of cool OPACs that have implemented Library 2.0 features, and also at Library 2.0 sites that are using features that may be of interest to libraries for their OPACs.